AP-7 Jet Phaser

I'm using this with an Ibanez JS100 through a 6W Cornford valve recording amp and a Beringer 100W analogue modelling amp. It sounds great with either one. The 8-stage phaser sounds like a Mutron Bi-Phase, very nice warm analogue phasing. When you change speed with the footswitch it ramps up or down slowly like a Leslie, very nice touch. Cranking the resonance and selecting a 'Jet' mode you can hear how the pedal got it's name. Huge whoosing effect, as pronounced as a flanger but much warmer sounding. The distortion sounds like a DS-1, not suprising as the circuit is very similar. There's very little hiss, but then you would not expect much as a phaser has no gain stages. There were two versions. Mine has true bypass but some have electronic bypass using a couple of FETs like a modern Boss pedal. I don't know who uses these. They are pretty rare and unfortunately most are getting bought by collectors rather than real muscians.

It was broken when I got it but that was because someone had attempted to replace the mode switch and wired it up incorrectly. Once this was corrected it worked just fine. It's housed in a very robust cast box with a steel base plate. The original electronics are still working perfectly. I use it in the studio. I would not gig with something this rare in case it was stolen.

The Jet Phaser combines a distortion and 8-stage phaser. Four control knobs are provided comprising 'Jet' volume, mode, resonance and slow speed. The six way mode switch provides four distorted 'Jet' settings and two clean. Positions 1, 3 and 5 give shallow modulation with positions 2, 4 and 6 being deep modulation. There are two differently EQ'd distortions, one mid-rangy the other scooped. The resonance control takes the phaser from mild to very pronounced. There are two footswitches; one for bypass, the other for chaging the modulation rate.

The only reason I got this so cheap was that it was broken and you cannot expect any support whatsoever for a pedal this old. I have the original service notes so if it goes wrong I'll simply fix it myself.

I play jazz, rock and anything in between. I've been playing over 30 years. I've wanted one of these since I saw one a NAMM in the mid seventies. It's a great sounding phaser and the ramped speed switch means you can use it like a Lesie. It runs off a pair of 9V PP3 batteries. It would be nice if it had a power supply but it's not too power hungry so I guess that doesn't really matter. If I'd known how good these were I would have bought one before, even at the crazy prices they go for these days. I'm marking it down one just because they are usually very expensive.