Soundtoys PhaseMistress - Manual (Page 28)

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bass in the effect where as a Negative setting will have less bass and sound thinner,
but not in a bad way. The overall character of the phase effect will change rather
drastically with a decent amount of resonance and significantly increases the types
of sounds you can get with PhaseMistress.
Notch Phase
The Notch Phase switch provides the same function as the Res Phase switch but
affects the polarity of the notches. Again and as a general rule the Positive setting
will yield stronger low end in the overall phase sound where as the Negative setting
will yield less pronounced bass. Both sounds great and combined with the Res Phase
switch greatly enhance the variety of potential "tones" available in PhaseMistress.
Intensity
Simply put, the "High" setting gives you steeper (more intense and fatter) peaks and
valleys in the phase signal where the "Normal" setting provides a more "standard"
set of peaks and valleys. The "high" setting will make the phase effect significantly
more pronounced at all Stage settings.
Please Note: The "High" setting chews up a lot of DSP power. As a general rule the
High setting sounds best and is most useful when the number of stages is between 3
and 12. You can use with all Stage settings but you may start to see a pretty big CPU
hit.
Color
The Color also affects how the resonance interacts with the notches. The "Classic"
setting provides the most common type of response where the notches get "weaker"
as feedback or resonance is increased. The "Modern" setting preserves deep notches
with all resonance settings. We could probably spend a whole lot of time trying to
find the words to try and describe how this sounds, but as with most of the parame-
ters just try them and listen. You can’t hurt yourself or PhaseMistress…but
PhaseMistress just might put a hurt on you but in a really good and pleasurable
phasing way!
Modulation Tweak Menu
The Modulation Tweak parameters allow you set both the modulation depth and
direction for Frequency, Resonance and Res Offset. The L/R Offset knob and Polarity
switch allow you to determine the type of stereo signal that will be created by
PhaseMistress.
In most phasers the only parameter that gets modulated is the Frequency.
PhaseMistress allows you to dynamically modulate the Resonance as well as the