Remember the pioneering musicians I referenced in the last paragraph? Well, a young ex-pat American guitarist found the lush, swirling sound of the Uni-Vibe to sound a little better on guitar than the organ. The Uni-Vibe was designed to recreate the Doppler-effect sound of a Leslie rotating speaker. In 1968, a Japanese company by the name of Shin-ei created a footpedal operated phase-shifter called the Uni-Vibe. By sweeping, or modulating the phase-shifted signal, the notch frequencies are moved up and down the frequency spectrum thus creating that classic swooshy and swirly phase-shift sound.

The resulting phase cancellation produces a wonderfully musical sounding set of В“notchesВ” at musically related frequencies in the original sound. The result wasnВ’t exactly tape flanging in the classic sense (as an actual flanging effect also requires a short modulated delay), but sounded very cool in and of itself and would begin to be utilized in unintended ways by some pioneering musicians (weВ’ll get to this part of the story in just a bit).ДЄ phaser or phase shift effect is created by altering the phase of the audio, (similar to a delay, but with frequency variation) and mixing this phase-shifted sound back in with the original signal. Early effects designers attempted to model the В‘out of syncВ’ part of the flanging effect by using something called an analog phase shift circuit. The original phase-shifting effects were an attempt at electronically recreating analog tape flanging (an effect created by mixing the output of two analog tape machines playing the same track, only slightly out of sync) using integrated circuits. To help illustrate just how capable PhaseMistress is, letВ’s take a look at the history of phasing and highlight some of the legendary sounds available to you inside of this plug-in. PhaseMistress sounds and responds in the same manner as a physical analog phaser would, but also includes powerful new tools for creating endlessly customizable effects. An extensive amount of research and development went into creating the wealth of features and modes that make PhaseMistress the most complete phase-shifting effects plug-in available.

SoundToys PhaseMistress was designed to offer you an all-encompassing set of phase-shifting tools, expertly modeled from the most sought-after hardware units. SoundToys PhaseMistress Plug-In SoundToys PhaseMistress Plug-In is an Analog Phase Shifter delivering rich phase sweeps, deep analog vibe, and tempo-locked modulation.

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