I used to have one, ended up selling it. But now I miss it. I never really used it in my music though, I just loved playing with it. I miss having it around.
I have to say I love the slow envelope mode. It’s really the pedal’s best feature IMO. And the main one that I find musically useful.

Square mode set to a medium speed + slapback echo = dubby/trippy

Here’s a clip I made with that + fuzz:

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=5795031

In some parts I’m sweeping the expression while doing that, but since the expression sweeps the start, I have the stop set to the low so that it provides that constant thud.

I prefer the slow setting because it is less in your face, though I would have liked the phasing sound to be more prominent- have more notches so to speak.

Another neat trick is to put a tremolo in front of it in envelope mode, so that the trem triggers it.

I find that it works nicely with delay and chorus/vibrato as far as other pedals in conjunction go. It also worked very well with my frequency analyzer, because it brought out a lot of the metallic overtones.

Maybe we expect too much from phasing. I guess one has to remember that in phasing you are just hearing the point of sound as it moves thro the sound spectrum. So at anytime you are just hearing that piont that is moving thro its travel so to speak. So yes I guess it sounds ‘thin’ and stetched etc. But when you hear it when its moving and shimmering then it really comes into its own. I love phasing its such an organic sound unlike anything else. It all started in the 70’s for me with the small stone and is still continuing this day with the re issue classic chassis small stone, just love em!

I find phasers do influence one’s playing, the Small Stone originally had me experimenting with a whole lot of new musical expressions, I loved the way the harmonics would catch and crystallise within the sound of a chord or arpeggio.
My fav phaser was a Maestro Mini Phase, not to mention the Mutron Bi-Phase. However, I then met the Electric Mistress, Dr.Q and the Y-Triggered Filter and they became permanent members of my pedal board.
This said, I very often used the Small Stone with the Electravibe, getting a warm, deep ringing bell-like timbre from the bottom octave of the instrument, and I went on to buy a Polyphase which opened up the Electravibe even more. I so love it when the music catches the phase cycle and starts to oscillate with the sweep.
I still have this vintage Polyphase and it is at present being refurbished before getting back into action.
The EHX Stereo Polyphase is on my list of must-haves. And my personal preference is slow to medium settings which give me room to move.