When I play bass sounds with my Voyager through the 103 it often occurs some quite disturbing bass peaks as the LFO sweeps across the spectra. These aren’t just a change in timbre but very (too) prominent, especially at high (phaser) resonance settings. Do any of you deal with these in any way? I was thinking about a compressor maybe.
A compressor would work before the phaser, or an eq. What I would do is put the phaser on an aux out and back into a channel in a mixer at full mix, then have the clean bass on another channel and mix the two. That way you could eq the bass before it hits the phaser, but still have the same bass sound.
Interesting tip.
I notice the same thing with my 103, but the small stone actually loses notes. Go figure.
But why not eq or compress AFTER phaser since it’s the phasing that makes certain frequencies pronounced? That would make more sense to me, though it would dampen the highs at those “bass peak moments” if being compressed.
I don’t really know what the exact problem is, but yeah experiment with it. But to me it seems like a phaser is going to create all kinds of comb filtering that cannot be tamed with a single frequency cut. If it is just the low end in general, a shelving filter after might work best.
I usually just tweak the amount and sweep knobs until I hit that sweet spot. I like the sweep around 9-1:00 and amount around 12-3:00
or I switch to the aux output