MXR announces gold 50th Anniversary Phase 90 for March
January 27, 2025 · 3 sources
MXR announced the 50th Anniversary Phase 90, a gold-finished limited edition of its phaser pedal, on January 2712. The Jim Dunlop-owned company showed it during NAMM 20251. It is set to go on sale on March 18123.
The pedal is the standard one-knob, four-stage phase shifter, with a single Speed knob controlling the effect, in a gold enclosure123. Guitar Pedal X described it as "the same old One-Knob 4-Stage Phase-Shifter that everyone knows and loves," changed only in finish3. MXR has not said how many units will be made1.
Guitar World reported a US price of $200 and availability from March 181. Gearnews listed the same price as an MSRP of USD 200 and said the pedal would be "officially out for sale on 18 March"2. Guitar Pedal X gave the price as $1993. The sources do not agree on the figure.
The Phase 90 was released in 1972 as MXR's first pedal, according to Gearnews2. Guitar World noted that MXR issued a gold 50th Anniversary Phase 90 in 2022 for its "closest friends in the industry," and that the company has now said "it was too good to keep to ourselves"1.
"It was too good to keep to ourselves"
Guitar World credited the pedal's use to Eddie Van Halen, on Van Halen's Atomic Punk and Eruption, and to David Gilmour on Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond, and listed John Frusciante, Robin Trower, John Petrucci and Tom Morello among other players1. Gearnews also named John Mayer2.