Strymon phaser shootout: Zelzah vs Mobius (no talk)

video upload by Richard DeHove

"The Strymon Zelzah phaser vs the Strymon Mobius is a music-only comparison for hardcore phaser fans! There aren't too many true stereo in and out phasers and Strymon have two of them. I bought the Zelzah first and have been very happy with it, but after buying the Mobius I've begun to question whether I really need the Zelzah as well. But can the multi-effect Mobius do as well as a dedicated phaser? Here I've tried to match the sounds reasonably closely and mainly stick to 4 and six stage examples. The Zelzah can also do chorus and flanging but it seemed to be stretching things a bit to go there as well so I've stuck with the phaser. Both units were set to maximum stereo width for the entire demo.

Conclusions are up to the listener but to my ears they sound very similar. The Zelzah at times had a brighter and cleaner edge that I couldn't get on the Mobius, but the Mobius was able to get a much deeper effect which I often had to dial back to match the Zelzah. The synth used for the demo is the Rev2 8-voice.

0:00 Six stages pad
1:40 Six stages pluck
2:30 Barber pole
3:35 Four stages notes
4:14 Four stages pad
5:10 Six stage warbles
5:40 16-stages vs Zelzah 4+6 mode
6:57 Six stages - no feedback

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