A chorus is a bunch of flangers in parallel, basically, though with the feedback turned way down. A phaser is different, it rotates the phase of the incoming audio at specific frequency points and then mixes it back in with itself.
Flanger and phaser are sorta-kinda similar in that both are types of notch/peak filters (a series of frequency peaks and cuts which are modulated together), but a flanger is a comb filter, meaning its peaks are based on the harmonic series, whereas a phaser’s are somewhat arbitrary and it usually only has a handful of them
As one notch sweeps off the top of the high end another is brought in at the bottom of the low end. Sort of like a shepard tone with the cutoff frequencies.
The actual circuitry involved is probably variable; phasers are traditionally done with all-pass filters, and you could do what I described above with octave alignment of those allpass filters, but there may be a handier way of wiring that up, IDK. In the days of endless digital filters I tend to treat phasers as a sort of gimped version of serial notch filters anyway.
Rotary, though I'll probably never have the real thing.
Chorus is my most used, followed by vibrato (usually on delay repeats not the dry signal) then tremolo.
I like phaser and flanger but never find a use for them.
I still can't get a grasp on the difference between a flanger, phaser, and chorus.
Phaser sounds chewy. Flanger sounds like and airplane. Chorus sounds like '80s guitar ballad.
A chorus is a bunch of flangers in parallel, basically, though with the feedback turned way down. A phaser is different, it rotates the phase of the incoming audio at specific frequency points and then mixes it back in with itself.
Flanger and phaser are sorta-kinda similar in that both are types of notch/peak filters (a series of frequency peaks and cuts which are modulated together), but a flanger is a comb filter, meaning its peaks are based on the harmonic series, whereas a phaser’s are somewhat arbitrary and it usually only has a handful of them
How does a barberpole phaser work?
As one notch sweeps off the top of the high end another is brought in at the bottom of the low end. Sort of like a shepard tone with the cutoff frequencies.
The actual circuitry involved is probably variable; phasers are traditionally done with all-pass filters, and you could do what I described above with octave alignment of those allpass filters, but there may be a handier way of wiring that up, IDK. In the days of endless digital filters I tend to treat phasers as a sort of gimped version of serial notch filters anyway.
FM Synthesis
You can do some crazy shit with it.
Subtle chorus because it makes a clean signal sound cleaner with a shimmer.
Rotary, though I'll probably never have the real thing.
Chorus is my most used, followed by vibrato (usually on delay repeats not the dry signal) then tremolo.
I like phaser and flanger but never find a use for them.
Same. Rotary sounds like an improved phaser.
Slightly phaser or flanger are good to set the timbre, but it's hard to not sound like Deep Purple or Pink Floyd.
gotta be delay
is it, though?
yeah
All modulation is basically just delays
The one with the bendy wheel where it goes woop woop
bendy and woop pilled
tremolo for that old country thing
A guitar into a Chorus pedal fed into the front of an overdriven tube amp sounds godly (if you set it right ofc)