Harley Benton Vintage Phase 4-stars Reviews

It does the job

Solid little phaser, doesn’t sound cheap in any way. Solid metal box, SMD components to keep manufacturing costs down but it sounds great

Good bang for the buck

Its a nice pedal and it sounds okay. Built quality is good and its easy to use.

Decent basic phaser

I wasn't expecting much from this piece when I ordered it. Truth to be told I just needed a simple budget phaser with decent sound and that's what this is. The sound is very subtle and probably someone wouldn't find it very satisfying for some kind of an extreme use because it only has one knob to modify the phaser's speed. But on the other hand it has metal casing, true bypass, no hums in a pedal chain, good quality knob(s), good sound (except that "subtle" detail that I've already mentioned) and it's even more that you could for this kind of a price range.

Not Quite There

Bought this phase thinking it may be able to compare to the phase 90. It just doesn't have the same range. It also doesn't like to play well with other pedals, and tends to get noisy.

Does the job

does the job if you want a not very versatile and easy to use Chorus. The sound is good enough for the price and I would definitelty get one a bit more expensive if I were to buy a chorus again..

Nice simple phaser

This pedal is not too bad, it really depends on the type of sounds being ran through it. I have found it hardly responds to monosynth sounds however it has a very pleasing sound when being used with string machines and polysynth patches. It requires a much lower volume signal than my EHX Small Stone pedal which means for live use I have to give over two channels of my mixer to reamplify it's output.

This pedal has a good handling but it may change the sound of the original guitar tone. On the other hand its the best pedal you can buy with its low price.

Good enough

Well for the price you can't hope for a MXR p90, but this is quite similar! In some settings it will change a bit the sound and you will ear it change (witch is worse!).

Great Phase 90 emulation!

I play and record a lot of styles of music and I love a good phaser!

The MXR Phase 90 is THE classic phaser pedal to have, used by artists as diverse as Eddie Van Halen and Waylon Jennings. Harley Benton's Vintage Phase is attempting to emulate the classic Phase 90 sound, and in my opinion, does it really well!

It sounds great - exactly how it should, and can provide guitarists with an extra quirk to their tone.

The build quality is pretty good. The metal housing of the pedal, although not the strongest I've seen on a pedal, keeps the internal electronics safe. I have had some problems with the power connector - sometimes it doesn't work and needs the power cable jiggling about.

I gave the features of the pedal a 4/5 purely because there are not really many features to this pedal - but thats the nature of a Phase 90 style phaser!

This is a great pedal for the price which has a permanent place in my pedalboard!

Bit of a faff

It's good, don't get me wrong, it does a perfectly decent impression of a phase 90, just like you want. Stick it in front of an overdriven tube amp and you are Eddie Van Halen (in your mind). But if you want to adjust the trim pot then you have to pull out the whole circuit board (which is kind of delicate) and fiddle about before putting it back together again, and realising you were a bit off, and doing the whole thing again.

Other than that though, no complaints, I got it because my ancient small stone was getting too delicate to take out to gigs, and I don't have to worry about killing this as if it dies, I can get another one for silly money.

Really impressive for the price

It sounds really good and how this kind of phaser should sound.

Metal case is sturdy, but the bottom is quite bad, i tried to attach it to my pedal board with velcro tape, and as i was pushing tape to the metal it bent inward .

The switch has cheap feel to it, but not like it would break or anything.

It absolutely is far better than the cheap behringer pedals.

If you want to experiment with pedals, or just want to buy pedal just because you have one song you want/have to play with this pedal and don't want to spend much money , this is The pedal.

It is 100% gig friendly and useable.

Very nice phaser at a ridiculous price

Very nice phaser at such a ridiculous price it's a no-brainer in my opinion.

Sturdy metal case and switch, only one knob adjusts the speed, that's all you need.

Convincing mxr-phase90 clone.

As good as many much more well-known and more expensive brands.

Ok, my computer crashed so here's the basics of what I wrote last time without all the flowery details!

The sound on this pedal is very good. I have used pretty much every popular phase pedal out there as it's my most used effect outside of distortion. The sound is very warm and natural, doesn't suck the tone and the level does not change when the pedal is engaged. It engages without audible pop/click.

The top speed is not as fast as some other pedals out there but it's still a decent speed, it's also not as deep as some other pedals out there but again, what you get is more than usable for most situations that call for some phaser action! I've never really had to use the extreme end of any phase pedal as it's too much anyway.

Overall the tone is very comparable to the MXR 90 but at about half cost it's a no-brainer. And solidly built.

Just a few weeks ago I sold a very popular and acclaimed phase pedal as it didn't cut the mustard for me but I can see the Harley Benton staying in my pedal board for a long while to come.

Me: Nearly 20 years playing guitar and 15 years freelance audio engineer.