Anyone love modulation?

[psychodave]

I have always loved modulation, but mainly preferred phase and flanger sounds. Lately, I’ve been loving chorus sounds. I prefer subtle modulation…not anything overbearing or domination the sound.

What do you guys like?

Here is what I have been tinkering with the past few days.

 

[alund]

Chorus/detune and phase for clean
Reverb and delay for angry

 

[rsm]

been into chorus on cleans since the '80s

no apologies.




don't like or use reverb much

 

[psychodave]

I never use much reverb.

I’ve always loved the MXR flanger, but at times it can be over powering. My settings in the above pic make it sound like a chorus. I’ve owned the phase 90 since the mid 1980’s. I would just leave the phaser on all the time. lol

 

[Shask]

Yep, always loved Chorus. I have a ton of them, and have built several. The Analog BBD stuff like the CE-2 and Small Clone are cool, but I also really like digital Chorus that is mixed in parallel via analog dry through. I recently got a TC Electronics Corona Chorus that has a good TriChorus Sound. I also like the old Digitch MultiVoice Chorus pedals also. I find these better for subtle than the analog stuff. The Rocktron 8-Voice Chorus is legendary.

I also like Flanger, but mostly use it as a hollow metallic sounding Chorus.

I never really got into Phaser or Vibe as much.

 

[thegame]

Modulated delay >>> Chorus. You still get the high frequency swirl but with less low frequency warble.

 

[Stradazone]

Did a gig a couple of weeks ago and went stereo out to FOH with the Free The Tone Tri Avatar Chorus, pretty impressive chorus unit!

 

[fearhk213]

I dig phasers. Hard to beat the MXR EVH. Sounds killer.

Flangers can be hit and miss for me, but I love the FoxRox TZF2. It can be subtle or extreme with the whole through zero thing. Just a killer pedal all around.

My new favorite modulation pedal, though, is the Jam Pedals Retrovibe mk3. I’d wanted a vibe for years and finally broke down last year. Set to chorus with the knobs between 12-1, and it’s pretty much perfect for that vibe-type of thing.

Edit: I also like the Analogman Clone Chorus. To me it’s more of a workhorse type of pedal. Nothing too “amazing” about it per se. I actually prefer it set more subtle than not. Whereas I think the Retrovibe comes to life when it’s dialed in more obvious.

 

[BeZo]

Phasers!

 

[rsm]

Modulated delay >>> Chorus. You still get the high frequency swirl but with less low frequency warble.

yes; Holdsworth used 8 parallel modulated delays with different settings for his "chorus" and other sounds.

 

[VonBonfire]

I do love pretty much most modulation but I just find it's mostly a toy that isn't applicable to what I'm doing. I have a Meris Mercury 7 that I mostly bought for fun and games with a pedal steel but the steel didn't have enough levers so I sold it. Let's just say that thing has realms unexplored inside, both horribly dark and eerie sounding and also angelic and beautiful. An amazing unit.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

Is modulation where you plug something in between the guitar and the aux input on the radio?
If so, than yes.

 

[rsm]

now for something completely different

 

[jabps]

I have always loved modulation, but mainly preferred phase and flanger sounds. Lately, I’ve been loving chorus sounds. I prefer subtle modulation…not anything overbearing or domination the sound.

What do you guys like?

Here is what I have been tinkering with the past few days.
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Yep, dig it. Those are some great classic pedals there. Even the newer MXR Stereo Chorus is highly underrated. I honestly believe if MXR would put it and the gray box flanger in a smaller footprint they'd be even more popular.

Here is my current board, got all my mod needs covered. The chorus I have been bouncing between the Vahlbruch, Providence Anadime and Neunaber Inspire for a Tri-Chorus sound. Flanger and Phase, I'm all about the MXR stuff with those. And then the AutoFilter is used for the Marty Friedman trick to add a little vocal characteristic to solo lines, basically everything is set to off, turn on the pedal and it gives you this subtle vowel like effect. Very cool.

 

[Deleted member 87294]

the $99 jhs chorus pedal is a great bang for your buck pedal

the ibanez airplane flanger (paul gilbert sig) pedal that is now discontinued is also terrific!

 

[jbru91]

Did a gig a couple of weeks ago and went stereo out to FOH with the Free The Tone Tri Avatar Chorus, pretty impressive chorus unit!

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Favorite tri-chorus in pedal format i've come across!

 

[glpg80]

Im a big fan of detune which doesn’t have the warble. I also like a digital slap back delay mixed really low in parallel with a dry signal to give some space for leads. I don’t like reverb on high gain as you seem to lose yourself in a mix unless you have the headroom to push through it but it also causes low end to turn to mush. I do like hearing reverb on cleans though as long as it doesn’t get waveboard surfer washout

 

[shar-vell Dan]

 

[rsm]

 

[japetus]

I am so jealous of your MXR pedal collection