Strymon announces Zelzah stereo dual phaser with 4- and 6-stage sides

May 1, 2024 · 3 sources

Strymon announced the Zelzah, a stereo phaser with a four-stage side and a six-stage side that can be played at once, according to Delicious Audio¹. The report describes the two channels as "full fledge separate phasers with their own footswitch, controls and character"¹.

The left side is a vintage-style four-stage phaser with a toggle switch for three sweep modes: Classic, which uses a single LFO with a warped triangle shape; Barber, a sweep that seems to rise or fall continuously; and Envelope, which drives the sweep from picking dynamics¹. The right side is a six-stage phaser whose Voice knob controls more than 30 parameters at once, moving from phasing toward flanging and chorus¹. A Resonance toggle above the Voice knob sets intensity to Normal, Mild or Strong¹.

Guitar World lists the controls as two Speed knobs, two Depth knobs, Mix, Voice, a Sweep selector (Classic, Barber, Env), a Resonance selector (Off, Mild, Strong), an Input selector (Mono/Stereo) and separate footswitches for the 4-Stage and 6-Stage sides². Its specifications:

Strymon says the pedal is true stereo, with an individual 4-stage and 6-stage phaser for signals on the left and another pair for the right, fed by a single TRS input jack that can take two TS connections with a TRS stereo adapter³. Guitar World reports Speed ranges from 0.1Hz to 10Hz and that the two sides run in series by default, with split and parallel modes also available².

Neither source gives a price or a ship date. The Zelzah is a phaser pedal.