Uranus phaser

[KA4HJH]

>By the way, I did finally hear a reasonable suggestion for why the
>univibe has the phasing capacitor values staggered like it does, which
>had always mystified me. The original 'vibe also had a "Vibrato"
>setting. If you set the caps to all the same value, the phase shift is
>all concentrated in one spot. With the large staggering of phase shift
>values, there is some phase shift at the top and bottom end of the
>audio spectrum to provide vibrato even at the extremes of the swing.
>That made far more sense than any other explanation that I had heard or
>could come up with.

This is a long shot, but do the values make the spacing intervalic instead
of linear (or a some rough approximation thereof)? That would definitely
make it sound more like real vibrato (or tremelo, as Leo Fender called
it--groan).

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"