Used PH-1r - is it really in original condition?

[Pepe]

@Pepe : your videos are great but not good for Gear Aquisiton Syndrome ...

Actually I have another Phaser pedal, a Pearl PH-03 (which has a volume drop) that I use with my keyboard. For guitar, I like the Boss sound and format of the stomp boxes.

I haven't noticed a strong volume drop with my Pearl PH-03, but I haven't tried it with other instruments yet. I acquired it in bad condition last year and I did a full recap, because it didn't sound right (a friend gave me his Pearl PH-44 for a demo video, so I knew how it had to sound like). After that procedure it was completely great again. But I don't like its sound too much.

[René1983]

Do you think that, replacing the Malaysian and Chinese copies of the JRC4558 and may be some other components by better ones, and trying the trick that suggested Laurie, could be a way to get a decent phaser tone?

I have tried to resell it but people are not interested in suspicious replicas. I think the best solution would be to keep it and upgrade it.

[laurie]

Do you think that, replacing the Malaysian and Chinese copies of the JRC4558 and may be some other components by better ones, and trying the trick that suggested Laurie, could be a way to get a decent phaser tone?

Changing the opamps probably won't do much.

Upgrading all the capacitors to something like Panasonics might do more? Hard to tell until you try.