Quasar

The Quasar is a vactrol based phase shifter that does everything from rotating speaker sounds, to bouncy odd ball filter effects. All knobs are very active in altering the effect, and it will not add noise to your signal like a lot of jfet based phasers.

There’s a load of sounds packed in this box.

• Rate control takes you from super slow to way too fast.
• Feedback control radically alters the voice of the effect using both positive and negative feedback.
• The frequency and mix knobs are somewhat interactive and have a huge range. Turn the frequency knob way down, and you will hear the LFO become non symmetrical, as it bounces against the lower end of the frequency range.
• Mix control allows you to change the level of the overall effect versus the unaffected signal.

Why its different?

The Quasar uses Vactrols to vary the phase shift frequency, instead of jfets, which most other phasers use. In a phaser circuit Jfets typically add a mild distortion to the guitar signal, which increase as the input to the effect increases. Vactrols are more expensive, but offer offer a cleaner audio path, a wider frequency range for the phaser effect, and far more headroom.

Simply put the Quasar offers great versatility, but still fits nicely on your pedalboard.