Mikron Phaser was modeled after the legendary Small Stone Phaser, a stomp box effect designed by one of our all-time heroes: David Cockerell. The effect was made particularly famous by the French composer Jean Michel Jarre who used it extensively on his recordings as a synthesizer effect. But of course it was used by countless legendary bands on guitar as well. The Police, Led Zeppelin, do we need say more? If you ask us, Small Stone Phaser is without doubt the best phaser ever made. It has a smooth, vibrant seventies sound that will never grow old, and is equally suited for guitar and synthesizer, and let's not forget the bass.
While we tried to replicate the original sound of Small Stone Phaser as accurately as possible, we added a few modern details as well. First of all, it's stereo. Secondly you can set not only the LFO rate and the 'color' of the phaser, but also adapt the center frequency, the degrees that the LFO's will be out of phase, and how much the pitch will be modulated up and down. And finally the bass and treble knobs are a nice addition that can help sometimes to get the sound 'just right', to let it fit a little better in the mix.
To all Jean Michel Jarre fans: use Mikron Phaser together with Mikron Orbiter to get the typical Jean Michel Jarre synthesizer sound from his first albums Oxygène and Équinoxe (see below).
Sound Examples
JMJ Strings
Admittedly, there's more to it than just a phaser, but together with Mikron Orbiter and Mikron Delay you can use Mikron Phaser to create a rather convincing Jean Michel Jarre type string sound.
First 4 bars are clean. The second 4 bars are with Mikron Orbiter. The next 4 bars Mikron Phaser has been added. The last 4 bars Mikron Delay has been added too.
Wind
Mikron Phaser is a great tool to add some movement to a sound
Mikron Phaser applied to a noise sweep
Electric Piano
You can use Mikron Phaser to create an old school Fender Rhodes sound
First half clean, second half Mikron Phaser
Floating
Or use it to create 70'ies style electronic music
A combination of Mikron Orbiter and Mikron Phaser
User Interface
![[Mikron Phaser GUI]](/plugins/mikron/phaser/images/screenshot.png)
Features
- vintage 70s sound
- intuitive, easy to use interface
- low cpu
- NKS support
System requirements
Windows: 10, and up
Mac OS X (Intel or Apple Silicon ): 10.11 (El Capitan), and up
Native Apple M1 support
Mikron Phaser is available in VST3 (64-bit), AU (64-bit), and AAX (64-bit) format
Mikron Phaser supports Native Instruments’ NKS format.
