Fender Lost Highway Phaser vs Warm Audio Mutation Phasor II
The Fender Lost Highway Phaser and the Warm Audio Mutation Phasor II are both pedals. The Warm Audio Mutation Phasor II leans dynamic. Current prices: $133.57 vs $139.99.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.41% — somewhat different
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$133.57via Reverb
$139.99via Reverb
The Fender Lost Highway Phaser is a phaser pedal from Fender, delivering multi-stage phasing with Rate, Depth, and a Mode selector for different phaser voicings. The Lost Highway Phaser provides the sweeping, swirling phase character suited for psychedelic, classic rock, and country applications at Fender quality. Part of the Fender effects lineup with Fender brand reliability.
The Warm Audio Mutation Phasor II reproduces the Musitronics Mu-Tron Phasor II, a legendary 1970s phaser circuit prized by collectors and funk, psychedelic, and progressive rock players for a deeper, more envelope-responsive sweep than most conventional phasers offer. Mu-Tron's original units have become rare and expensive vintage collector pieces, making faithful clones like Warm Audio's an important way for modern players to access that specific, historically significant sweep character without hunting down and paying vintage prices for an aging original. Warm Audio built its reputation on accessible, accurate recreations of iconic vintage studio and effects hardware, and this phaser continues that mission within the modulation effects category specifically.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Classic Rock
- Country
- Progressive Rock
- Electronic
- Funk
- dynamic