The 3 Series Pherb runs a dark, lo-fi reverb into a four-stage phase shifter, with both effects on together all the time. The reverb is chorused and chunky rather than a clean plate or hall, and it pulses slightly at long decay times. The phaser is a vintage-style four-stage design with its feedback left off and its notch sweeps moved up the spectrum, so it swishes above the reverb's low mids instead of covering them.
There is no blend and no order switch. Mix sets the effect level, Length sets decay and pre-delay together, from 241ms to almost 50 seconds, and Speed runs the phaser from 0.05Hz to 5Hz. Turn Speed fully down in normal mode and the phaser steps out, leaving the reverb on its own. The BREAK toggle sends your guitar through an asymmetric bitcrusher with analog-style clipping before both effects, and there the phaser stays in.
JHS aims it at shoegaze, industrial, noise, ambient and experimental players who build sounds rather than chase a tone, and says plainly it is not a spring reverb for a blues gig. Next to the 3 Series Reverb and Hall Reverb, Pherb is built to colour and break the sound.
SPECIFICATIONS
SPECS
Country of Origin: United States
Effect: Lo-fi reverb into four-stage phase shifter
Phaser Rate: 0.05 Hz to 5 Hz
Reverb Decay (RT60): 241 ms to 49.83 seconds
CONTROLS
Mix: amount of reverb/phaser
Speed: phaser speed, fully counterclockwise disables the phaser in normal mode
Length: reverb decay time and pre-delay
SWITCHES
BREAK: up, BREAK mode distorts the signal before the reverb and phaser; down, normal
CONNECTIONS
Input: 1/4" jack, right side
Output: 1/4" jack, left side
POWER
Power: 9V DC center negative
Current Draw: 70mA
DIMENSIONS
Length: 4.42"
Width: 2.38"
Height: 1.22"
