The EVP88 Phaser Section

Among the many effects people have used on different electric pianos, one of the most common is the phaser effect. A phaser filters certain aspects of a sound and then delays some of the signal a bit, the end result being a slight hollowing out of the sound that moves up and down the frequency range at a speed that can generally be controlled. Phasers can offer very subtle effects that color a sound nicely or wild, swooshing effects that sound like a rotary speaker gone wild. Figure 12.7 shows the EVP88 Phaser section.

Figure 12.7 The EVP88 Phaser section.

The EVP88 Phaser parameters are:

Rate. The Rate knob controls the speed at which the phaser moves up and down the frequency spectrum—basically, an LFO that modulates the phaser’s filters. When the Rate knob is set to Off, the phaser effect is turned off.