MXR Deep Phase vs Witch City Music Factory Light Cycle
The MXR Deep Phase and the Witch City Music Factory Light Cycle are both pedals.
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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.9% — quite different
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The MXR Deep Phase is an enhanced phaser pedal from MXR (Dunlop), delivering deeper, more dramatic phase shift than the standard MXR Phase 90 with an additional depth control for adjusting the intensity of the phase sweep. The Deep Phase takes the classic MXR phaser circuit and extends it with deeper, more modulated phase character for psych, classic rock, and funk applications.
Witch City Music Factory names this pedal Light Cycle, a direct reference to the glowing vehicles from Tron, a naming choice that suggests a bright, digital, or futuristic-leaning modulation or synth-adjacent effect rather than a warm, vintage-voiced circuit. Small independent builders frequently draw on pop-culture and film references for pedal names specifically to signal a tonal or aesthetic direction before a player even plugs in, and a name evoking Tron's neon, high-tech visual world points toward something bright and electronic rather than earthy or organic. Specific circuit type and control layout for the Light Cycle aren't confirmed from available sources.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Classic Rock
- Funk
- Experimental
- Electronic
- Ambient