🌪️ Electro-Harmonix Bad Stone – The modulating legend lives on! 🌪️
Six steps. One switch. Endless swirls.

The Bad Stone isn't just any phaser. It's a classic from the '70s, reissued in proven EHX style – with the mojo of the original circuit, but compact and stage-friendly. A pedal that sets your sound in motion without overpowering it.

🎛️ Features – Vintage meets control:

• 6-Stage Phaser: Warm, organic, and with that slightly nasal sweep that makes guitar signals float through the ether – somewhere between funk, fusion, and space rock.
• Manual Mode: Instead of modulation? Lock the phase to a sweet spot and use the Bad Stone as a resonant filter. Ideal for synth-like sounds or nasty wah-style textures without pedaling.
  
• Feedback knob: Turn it up and things really take off – the signal starts to “ring” as if it were rushing through a time bubble. Ideal for ambient, dub, or washed-out psych passages.
• True bypass: Your signal stays clean when the pedal is off. Purists approved.

🎸 How do you use it?

• Clean Funk: On a Strat neck pickup with the speed knob turned back a little, the Bad Stone delivers exactly the “smacking” movement you know from 70s funk records.
• Lead Tones: With an overdrive in front, the phaser acts like a subtle wah effect – perfect for expressive solos in the style of Gilmour or Frusciante.
  
• Ambient textures: In manual mode, with lots of reverb behind it, your guitar sound becomes a floating pad.
• Rhythm magic: Riffs get movement and depth – especially with the speed turned down for slow, hypnotic pulsing.

🎤 Who's used it?

• Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) – there are more phaser sweeps hidden on old Pumpkins records than you might think...
  

🎶 Finally – a tribute to Albert King, Bad Stone style:
(think 6/8 groove, OK?)

Born under a bad stone,
Swirlin' since the day I was born.
No phase ever stays alone,
My tone's been twisted and worn.