How Can I Get The Crunchy Reverb & Phaser Guitar Sound?

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How Can I Get The Crunchy Reverb & Phaser Guitar Sound?

Post by specialmonkey » Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:28 am

I'm wondering how I can get the crunchy reverb & phaser sound heard here:



or here:



but also on many other Lee Scratch Perry productions.

To me it sounds like reverb and phaser - but I'm not sure.

Thanks for any insights into what effects pedals / models, that are available today, would help to reproduce this sound.

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Re: How Can I Get The Crunchy Reverb & Phaser Guitar Sound?

Post by interruptor » Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:40 pm

Lee Perry was known to use a Mutron biphase at the time, as can be seen in this video:


A new version "mutron bi-pase ii" is available since recently. However I don 't know how close it is to the original:
https://mu-tron.com/shop/pedals/bi-phas ... ge-silver/

In the reverb/delay department Perry used a Roland RE-201 Space-Echo. It was re-created in hardware and software several times over the years.

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Re: How Can I Get The Crunchy Reverb & Phaser Guitar Sound?

Post by specialmonkey » Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:04 pm

Thanks for the info and clip!

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Re: How Can I Get The Crunchy Reverb & Phaser Guitar Sound?

Post by interruptor » Sat Oct 16, 2021 10:52 am

Beware though.. It‘s easy to go down the rabbit hole of gear hoarding. Perry‘s creativity and open-mindedness had a higher impact on his sound than the exact phaser and reverb models he had at his disposal. He was very skillful at getting the best out of a rudimentary setup.

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