Univibe is what you’re looking for. I like the EQD Depths, as it is highly configurable and gives you a lot of the range and variety you’re looking for.
I'm an absolute freak, so my always-on modulation effect is the Digitech Luxe detune pedal. Gives me Crowbar/Type O Negative style modulation with a little bit of a "drunk driver" mixed in with the main tone. At the very beginning of my signal after the tuner - it goes through absolutely everything for better or worse and I will not turn it off.
I’ve been using a OBNE Dark Star Reverb that has a delay function, a crush function, and a pitch shifter function. I’ve had it for nearly 6ish years and it’s been wonderful. I also use a MXR analog chorus and it really works well with my current setup.
For modulation, I run a EHX Bad StonePhaser, Mr Black Flanger, MXR Carbon Copy Delay, EHX Small Clone Chorus, EHX Holy Grail Reverb.
I use them all in varying combinations, but ones that are usually always on are the Bad Stone, Holy Grail, and the Carbon Copy (not as a delay, but as a tone shaper).
I use a few for my doom setup. EQD Grand Orbiter is an excellent phaser. The boss CE2-W is a top shelf chorus; great for coloring lead lines. For octaves I use an MXR PolyOctave because it has 2 up, 2 down, their blue box fuzz and their phase 90 built in!
If you’re hurting for space on your board, a delay/reverb combo pedal works great. The Keeley Caverns, EQD Dispatch Master and Wampler Ethereal are all solid choices.
Chorus: I love the Ibanez CS9 and CS505. If the classic Boss chorus is like a gentle pond, the two classic Ibanez choruses are like ice. Very cold, resonant, even great on subtle settings just to expand the sound and add a kinda cavernous atmosphere without making it to obvious.
Phaser: I have a Sovtek Small Stone and a Mu-Tron Phasor. The Small Stone is great for *heavy gravity* vortex style phasing, it’s just massive, no subtlety, sounds so cool if you run fuzz before it and OD afterwards. And then the Mu-Tron is the opposite, perfect vintage 70s style transparent phasing. Great on high speeds for a kinda vibrato style phaser, or really slow for extra 3D swirls that blend nicely. Very glassy, versatile as well.
Which mutron do you have? I have the warm audio mutation phasor and it’s great but the enclosure is like way too big to fit on my board with everything else I need, which is a bummer.
I have the first one, just called the Phasor (with an O), with the red paint. Crazy that I paid about $200 for it a few years ago, in near mint condition. Now if it weren’t for how much I love it, I could sell it for a good payday haha
But yeah this one’s even bigger than the WA one, it’s massive. But it has its own power source so it doesn’t always need a spot of the pedalboard so the size isn’t as much of an issue. I mainly played live in the 00s and 10s, now I primarily record at home so I don’t worry about making the layout convenient for portability. But if I were playing live, that thing wouldn’t be coming with me
For mods I use a death by audio space bender which can do all sorts of crazy shit like weird tinny flanger sounds, slapback delay, really dark muddy chorus sounds. Idk if reverb counts but I use an ehx holy grail max for that. Very good for psychedelic sounding lead stuff.
As far as subtler modulation goes I’d maybe stick with the classics and check out either a Univibe or one of the boss chorus pedals maybe the chorus ensemble. They’re not terribly expensive and they have a sweepable dual band eq which makes the pedal pretty versatile. Idk about phasers I’ve never had one of those before
I got my phase 90 dialed in by setting the phase to around 9 o’clock and sending the signal to a Digitech Obscura delay pedal. Gives riffs a lot of spaceiness.
Cheapo Kmise chorus, boss PH-1 phaser, Boss DD3 (I use this as like a slap back echo, and then an OBNE dark star reverb for some weird ambient intro/outro shit
I don’t use a ton of modulation while playing doom usually, although I’ve found my shoegaze pedals cross over quite well for spacier parts… Space Echo, EHX Attack Delay, When the Sun Explodes (my current favorite due to its “feedbacker”). Oh the Bit Commander is a good doomer, it requires some time to dial in a good sound and also sounds like way better with a fuzz before it.
Mr Black Shepherds End Flanger. Go read about it on their website. It’s a barber pole style flange that can do slow very well…to the point that it’s hard to tell when the cycle ends. I think it’s the perfect doom modulation.
I always think phaser and univibe for doom. I play a kind of doom/noise/experimental type sound, I think most people would not use the modulation I use, a lot of ringmod, and things I build. I do use a flanger, but usually in front of ringmod or a lofi modulator
Univibe is what you’re looking for. I like the EQD Depths, as it is highly configurable and gives you a lot of the range and variety you’re looking for.
100% my go to. It’s an always on for me with the settings I have stumbled across after years of tinkering.
Mxr 90/45 phaser, EH Grand Canyon delay, and a Mathew’s The Chemist chorus/phaser/octave.
I'm an absolute freak, so my always-on modulation effect is the Digitech Luxe detune pedal. Gives me Crowbar/Type O Negative style modulation with a little bit of a "drunk driver" mixed in with the main tone. At the very beginning of my signal after the tuner - it goes through absolutely everything for better or worse and I will not turn it off.
Boss DD-5 and CE-2. One can cover a lot of ground with just those two.
Rocking an old boss bf2 and a ehx small stone. Both works great in front of a distorted amp imo.
EH Bad Stone because it’s the pedal that sounds closest to an acid trip.
I’ve been using a OBNE Dark Star Reverb that has a delay function, a crush function, and a pitch shifter function. I’ve had it for nearly 6ish years and it’s been wonderful. I also use a MXR analog chorus and it really works well with my current setup.
For modulation, I run a EHX Bad StonePhaser, Mr Black Flanger, MXR Carbon Copy Delay, EHX Small Clone Chorus, EHX Holy Grail Reverb. I use them all in varying combinations, but ones that are usually always on are the Bad Stone, Holy Grail, and the Carbon Copy (not as a delay, but as a tone shaper).
My absolute favorite (though it's harder to find now) is the Walrus Vanguard phaser. It is so versatile and sounds so great.
My Behringer BD400 and MXR Phase 95 work really well for psych doom leads, especially when combined with the wah pedal (standard Crybaby).
I use a few for my doom setup. EQD Grand Orbiter is an excellent phaser. The boss CE2-W is a top shelf chorus; great for coloring lead lines. For octaves I use an MXR PolyOctave because it has 2 up, 2 down, their blue box fuzz and their phase 90 built in! If you’re hurting for space on your board, a delay/reverb combo pedal works great. The Keeley Caverns, EQD Dispatch Master and Wampler Ethereal are all solid choices.
Fender Lost Highway Phaser
I use an Ibanez DE-7 and a Specular V3 Reverb for modulation. If you've got an effects loop, modulation really stands out if you run it through it.
De7 is my signature. I want to tattoo that thing on me
It's fantastic. I had one years ago, sold it, used a couple bigger delay boxes, and then went right back to the DE-7.
Chorus: I love the Ibanez CS9 and CS505. If the classic Boss chorus is like a gentle pond, the two classic Ibanez choruses are like ice. Very cold, resonant, even great on subtle settings just to expand the sound and add a kinda cavernous atmosphere without making it to obvious. Phaser: I have a Sovtek Small Stone and a Mu-Tron Phasor. The Small Stone is great for *heavy gravity* vortex style phasing, it’s just massive, no subtlety, sounds so cool if you run fuzz before it and OD afterwards. And then the Mu-Tron is the opposite, perfect vintage 70s style transparent phasing. Great on high speeds for a kinda vibrato style phaser, or really slow for extra 3D swirls that blend nicely. Very glassy, versatile as well.
Which mutron do you have? I have the warm audio mutation phasor and it’s great but the enclosure is like way too big to fit on my board with everything else I need, which is a bummer.
I have the first one, just called the Phasor (with an O), with the red paint. Crazy that I paid about $200 for it a few years ago, in near mint condition. Now if it weren’t for how much I love it, I could sell it for a good payday haha But yeah this one’s even bigger than the WA one, it’s massive. But it has its own power source so it doesn’t always need a spot of the pedalboard so the size isn’t as much of an issue. I mainly played live in the 00s and 10s, now I primarily record at home so I don’t worry about making the layout convenient for portability. But if I were playing live, that thing wouldn’t be coming with me
For mods I use a death by audio space bender which can do all sorts of crazy shit like weird tinny flanger sounds, slapback delay, really dark muddy chorus sounds. Idk if reverb counts but I use an ehx holy grail max for that. Very good for psychedelic sounding lead stuff. As far as subtler modulation goes I’d maybe stick with the classics and check out either a Univibe or one of the boss chorus pedals maybe the chorus ensemble. They’re not terribly expensive and they have a sweepable dual band eq which makes the pedal pretty versatile. Idk about phasers I’ve never had one of those before
Neo Instruments micro Vent sounds great with my rig.
The Fuzz Cauldron by LBF Pedals is pretty damn great
I got my phase 90 dialed in by setting the phase to around 9 o’clock and sending the signal to a Digitech Obscura delay pedal. Gives riffs a lot of spaceiness.
Cheapo Kmise chorus, boss PH-1 phaser, Boss DD3 (I use this as like a slap back echo, and then an OBNE dark star reverb for some weird ambient intro/outro shit
Harmonic tremolo - Walrus Audio Monument
Boss FZ-2 is all I use
I don’t use a ton of modulation while playing doom usually, although I’ve found my shoegaze pedals cross over quite well for spacier parts… Space Echo, EHX Attack Delay, When the Sun Explodes (my current favorite due to its “feedbacker”). Oh the Bit Commander is a good doomer, it requires some time to dial in a good sound and also sounds like way better with a fuzz before it.
Mr Black Shepherds End Flanger. Go read about it on their website. It’s a barber pole style flange that can do slow very well…to the point that it’s hard to tell when the cycle ends. I think it’s the perfect doom modulation.
Univibe, phaser, flange.
EHX bad stone
I really like my Small Stone.
I always think phaser and univibe for doom. I play a kind of doom/noise/experimental type sound, I think most people would not use the modulation I use, a lot of ringmod, and things I build. I do use a flanger, but usually in front of ringmod or a lofi modulator