New Non-BOSS Pedals
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laurie
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Re: New Non-BOSS Pedals
Nice!!
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Re: New Non-BOSS Pedals
Yes, I could hardly believe my luck when I won the auction! Before that I thought that 30 EUR for the broken one - without original knobs - was cheap already.
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Pepe
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Re: New Non-BOSS Pedals
This Aria APH-1 Phaser has been sleeping on some shelf in a music shop for several decades. It was almost untouched and the seller said that it was completely unused.
That's how a new old stock Aria pedal from the "Bigfoot Series" (they called it like that in the catalogues) looks like. So they came in a clear plastic bag and without a dedicated manual, which explains why the OEM versions, like the Monarch units in Germany*, featured a typewritten manual. But the detailed brochure with the functions and specifications of the nine available pedal models at that time (1987 as it says in the lower right - in the end there were 21 units) is really nice. Apparently they had no battery installed. I am glad about that, because this way there was no risk of battery leakage.
The Aria Phaser is a strange beast. It doesn't sound bad at all. But it works "the other way round" than we're used to. In minimum Depth position it doesn't produce the murmuring sounds in the lower frequencies, like a BOSS PH-1 does for example. Instead it starts at the top. The more you increase Depth, the more it expands its range towards the lower region. This way it produces the classic four-stage phaser sound with Depth in maximum position only. It has quite a lot of feedback at demand, so it can produce some very funky sounds.
It won't become my favourite phaser, but for 40 EUR including shipping I wasn't able to say no. And I really like this pedal series!
*last year I bought a Monarch MFL-22 Stereo Flanger for fuzzbuzzfuzz, which came with two folded sheets in A4 format with manuals typewritten in German and French
That's how a new old stock Aria pedal from the "Bigfoot Series" (they called it like that in the catalogues) looks like. So they came in a clear plastic bag and without a dedicated manual, which explains why the OEM versions, like the Monarch units in Germany*, featured a typewritten manual. But the detailed brochure with the functions and specifications of the nine available pedal models at that time (1987 as it says in the lower right - in the end there were 21 units) is really nice. Apparently they had no battery installed. I am glad about that, because this way there was no risk of battery leakage.
The Aria Phaser is a strange beast. It doesn't sound bad at all. But it works "the other way round" than we're used to. In minimum Depth position it doesn't produce the murmuring sounds in the lower frequencies, like a BOSS PH-1 does for example. Instead it starts at the top. The more you increase Depth, the more it expands its range towards the lower region. This way it produces the classic four-stage phaser sound with Depth in maximum position only. It has quite a lot of feedback at demand, so it can produce some very funky sounds.
It won't become my favourite phaser, but for 40 EUR including shipping I wasn't able to say no. And I really like this pedal series!
*last year I bought a Monarch MFL-22 Stereo Flanger for fuzzbuzzfuzz, which came with two folded sheets in A4 format with manuals typewritten in German and French
Re: New Non-BOSS Pedals
Picked up a Wampler Tweed '57 for cheap. I really like MIAB pedals, and this is Marshall adjacent. It has more of that tweed/JTM45 sort of loose, gurgly thing vs a Plexi/JTM/JCM tight, upper mid cut.