Asheville Music Tools releases Analoger APH-12 variable stage phaser

April 24, 2025 · 3 sources

Asheville Music Tools released the Analoger APH-12, its fourth pedal, Guitar Pedal X reported on April 24, 2025. The maker describes it as a 100 percent analog 12-stage phase shifter with a selectable number of all-pass stages from 1 to 12¹².

The pedal offers eight stage settings: 1 through 6, 9 and 12, with odd stages out of phase¹. It has three calibrated mix settings, a modulation switch for slow LFO, fast LFO or envelope follower, and an expression/CV input assignable to sweep, resonance, rate or amount¹². The maker says the envelope follower is based on its AFG-1 flanger circuit, and that the filters use an OTA style filter IC from designer Dave Rossum¹. The APH-12 is designed by Rick "Hawker" Shaich, who worked as an engineer for Moog, and Premier Guitar reports he conceived it first as an analog/digital hybrid before returning to an all-analog design³.

The APH-12 is $397.00¹². Guitar Pedal X reported it had sold out in most places at the time of its article, with two units in stock at Andertons². Premier Guitar's reviewer called it "an outstanding modulation, filtering, and noise machine" and said the $397 price "starts to look like a very fair price"³. Guitar Pedal X's Stefan Karlsson wrote that it is "very well-engineered and very well specified" but "on the larger side of things in dimensions and price"².