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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: What effects turn you on?
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 18:25:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  4 18:25:23 1985
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Quite a few years ago I remember hearing a unique sound that I 
wondered about the effects of.  It was on an Amon Duul II album,
'Dance of the Lemmings'.  Kind of a fuzz-flange effect used on the
bass guitar in one section.  Later, I heard the same sound used
by CHROME on several songs.  Still mystified, a friend of mine
came over one day with a song he'd recorded with some friends, and
here was the sound.  He responded to my query with 'Oh yeah, that's
a Roland Jet-Phaser, whatsisname sold it after that to someone for
50 bucks.'  I then proceeded to scour the Recycler (this is L.A.)
for one.  Shortly thereafter I too picked one up for $50.  The 
Jet-Phaser is of pre-flange design, which stems from the rumored 
discovery that the spectral effect of tape flanging on sounds
was in effect, a multi-pole comb filter that wanders over the 
audio band.  Early designs of this sort of thing were devices
such as MXR's Phase 90, a simple triple-ganged modulated bandpass
(or was it Notch?) filter.  The Jet-Phaser seems to be of similar ilk,
except the filters Q is ajustable (resonance control).  I think there
are 5 filters, and the filters have fairly dramatic characteristics.
Kind of like having 5 Vox WAH pedals in parallel (or is it series)
and wanging away on them all simultaneously.  The Jet-Phaser also
has a build in fuzz, and several tone ranges for it.  Unfortunately,
the fuzz is either real bassy or real trebley, and you can't use the
fuzz without the Phase effect.  Still, a unique sound, wouldn't part
with it any more than my Electric Mistress by Electro-Harmonix. The
Electric Mistress is an analog-delay-line type Flanger which has the
important feature of being able to turn the sweep off, and use as
a 'tin-can-effect' or other short delay effects.

Keith Doyle
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