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Rochester, NY is home to fine dining delicacies like the "garbage plate" and the "white hot." It's also home to the Whirlwind pro-audio company, whose Rochester Series Guitar Effects Pedals are legitimate recreations of the original stompbox designs that put MXR on the map. The Whirlwind Rochester Series Orange Box Phaser is one such stompbox, and phasing effect that sound of which may be familiar to you. How familiar? Owen pits it against a recent MXR Phase 90 to find out.

By way of explanation (and as to why the Whirlwind Rochester Orange Box Phaser is more of a reissue than a knock-off): the current CEO of Whrilwind was one of the founders of MXR back in the 70s; he helped design the original Phase 90 pedal that made MXR famous as an effects company and not the large-format mixer company it was supposed to be. Oddly enough, Whirlwind was not originally founded with the intent to produce high-quality pro-audio solutions, but rather to develop and build a weather-control device that could manifest destructive vortices of air at will, thereby controlling the world. I guess that guy just can't help but build stompboxes!