Add More Movement To Your Sounds With Phasers

[@stale_.]

mixing phasing sounds is totally not a pain in the ass!

[@matttinklermusic]

Compression is your friend. ☺️

[@virajkhatri7574]

Video should include Phase Dispersion. Almost all "phaser" VSTs can be turned into a Disperser (like khz Disperser), by turning the depth/amount to 0% and dry/wetness to 100%. Then add as many bands as possible. This turns any phaser into an All-Pass Filter, and it makes your basses sound AMAZING.

[@matttinklermusic]

Totally! I love doing this too. It wouldn't have fit the video though because it doesn't really add 'movement' to the sound. Also, the reason this happens is because phasers actually work using all-pass filters. They create a duplicate version of the signal, then add an all pass filter to the duplicate. The number of notches is the number of duplicates. :)

[@kenbrady119]

Phaser on its own is great, but what I saw for the first time in this video was adding automation lanes and then apply various shapes to those parallel automations. Vary Cool (pun intended). Thanks.

[@matttinklermusic]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching. :)

[@mellotom]

Not sure how I never noticed the built in envelope follower, thanks for sharing!

[@matttinklermusic]

I love the envelope follower and use it all the time! Thanks for watching. :)

[@_madonkey_]

Very cool explanation of a Phaser and definitely makes me want to mess around more with this instead of just using the inbuilt Phaser in Serum. Thanks for all of the tips!

[@virajkhatri7574]

Serum's phaser is actually very limited. It doesn't allow you to set the # of bands, and it doesn't allow for 0% depth. The minimum "depth" setting is above 0%, which means you can't have zero feedback phase dispersion. Definitely the worst Serum FX

[@matttinklermusic]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it. :)

[@_madonkey_]

@@virajkhatri7574 great response and appreciate the feedback 🙂

[@chrisharbin623]

Other than some guitar, I never thought of using a phaser this way. Nice.

[@matttinklermusic]

Phasers are super neat!

[@simonsanchezkumrich8489]

I love phaser, tame impala uses it a lot

[@matttinklermusic]

Yup! It's a super awesome effect!

[@license_________2________chill]

If I'm working with midi I like mapping an envelope MIDI to various parameters rather than use the envelope follower. Very versatile! You could also do this with an audio track by converting the melody to a new MIDI track, cleaning it up if necessary, then muting the new MIDI track and mapping an envelope MIDI to the phaser parameters on the audio track. Then you can also randomise the min/max modulation values with an LFO to give it a human touch.

[@matttinklermusic]

Yes!! Using the MIDI modulators opens up so many possibilities! 🙌

[@chrisjames3272]

I love using the LFO2 and automating the mix. Have it at a crazy high rate and you get mad engine noises.

[@matttinklermusic]

This is a great idea!! So many cool things are possible with phasers 😁

[@PeranMe]

But is there a way in Ableton’s phaser to retrigger the lfo, to make it restart at any point? Like if you find a phrase where you need the phaser to for example reach the top of the triangle wave at a particular time? Edit: Perhaps by automating the envelope follower? Edit 2: Maybe what I’m after is easiest done with the automation stuff you show at the end! Must experiment! Thanks for a great video!

[@matttinklermusic]

2 ways you could do it! 1. Automation, as you mentioned 2. Use something like the Shaper or LFO effect and map that to the centre frequency of the phaser, then automate the retrigger button :) Thanks for watching! 😁

[@PeranMe]

@@matttinklermusic Aah, good idea! Going to have to play with that in the morning! Thanks, much appreciated!

[@chrisjames3272]

You could also use the sync function, though it would not be precise. As Matt says, automation is probably the most effective - though a shaper device would work too. It only takes a second to do your automation after all.

[@irishmossdubwise]

That's 11 or 12?

[@matttinklermusic]

This is demonstrated in Live 12 but the effect is exactly the same in Live 11. :)