Help in choosing a chorus pedal??

[garey77]

I have a h2o and it is pretty lush sounding... to me anyway.

 

[Meathead]

Sold all of my others and kept just this.

 

[AmpliFIRE]

I've heard that the Analogman Chorus is excellent. I'll stick with my MIJ CE2

Yeah...but just look at the mojo oozing from the MIJ version

 

[thunda]

Arion SFC-1 Stereo Fat Chorus.

 

[overthemountain]

Jacques Meistersinger Chorus- good combination of easy to dial in and tweakable.

 

[Ayrton]

Still have my CE-2...

 

[petejt]

what do you guys think about the mxr anolog chorus or the micro chorus? Thanks in advance!

I'd like to try one out. I really like that they have Low & High filter controls, which is not common on other chorus pedals. It really helps blend in how you want the effect to sound, which is critical when you want to run chorus with any gainy sound.

The Micro Chorus is very simple. Good if you want a small, basic chorus effect. But if you like mucking around with it to get different sounds, then try out the Analogue Chorus.



I'm a bit of a fanatic about chorusing so am always trying out different ones.

I have a (older version) H2O Liquid Chorus & Echo which sounds fantastic- really lush & rich sound. It can be wide and spacey to convoluted & seasick as much as you like- the Delay Time control comes in handy for this. There's a nice delay effect too that works great for echo trails or slap-back. It gets a bit swooshy with high gain, and can muddy up the bottom end a little bit whlie making the mids sound a bit squawky. It's fine if you just use it sparingly.

I have a Neunaber Chroma Chorus- which is actually a 'non-cyclical chorus' micro-pitch shifter. It splits your signal into three, leaving the centre dry while detuning and uptuning the other two, depending on the Width setting. It can get really lush and works pretty well with a lot of gain, although I am picky about bottom end so I like to run it in a full wet/dry setup. It's good on clean & cleaner tones too, as it doesn't get that seasicky chorus sound.

I also have an old Rockman Stereo Chorus/Delay. This is a rack unit, but you could use it in front of your amp/s too, as there's three Level settings. This thing makes your sound REEAAAAAAAALLLLY WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE and is great for solos and even keyboards. It has some slightly different control types- The Speed control is marked in Hertz (very cool), and has different Mix settings. It gets around the warbliness by having a pre-set very short Width (4ms), rather than a variable Depth/Width control. The Delay Time (pre-delay) is also preset, at either 25ms or 50ms. This is what makes it sound so wide. 50ms makes it echo like a big tiled bathroom, or ye olde Babylon Club discotheque .
To me the tone is a little bit cold for clean sounds- if you want an example then listen to the clean parts of the verses in Boston's Don't Look Back.


And speaking of clean sounds- I actually use a slow flanger effect for that, an Electro Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress. It has such a warm, syrupy sound that really envelopes you.




John Suhr will be coming out with his own chorus pedal, called the Bella. There's been a lot of delays and bugs to fix but it should be great when it finally gets released, whenever that will be. I'm looking forward to trying it out.

 

[petejt]

Bear in mind though that I didn't try a Red Witch Empress; another pedal that would have been right up there on my list.

I'd definitely get the Red Witch ("Rid Wutch" ) Empress chorus if I didn't already own the H2O.


Really nice sounds it has:

 

[blackba]

Jacques Meistersinger Chorus- good combination of easy to dial in and tweakable.

+1 Great pedal. I have heard it described as the chorus pedal for people who don't like Chorus that much. That would be me, don't use Chorus much. the Meistersinger is not Stereo, but for me that is not an issue.

 

[Schaf]

what do you guys think about the mxr anolog chorus or the micro chorus? Thanks in advance!

I'd like to try one out. I really like that they have Low & High filter controls, which is not common on other chorus pedals. It really helps blend in how you want the effect to sound, which is critical when you want to run chorus with any gainy sound.

The Micro Chorus is very simple. Good if you want a small, basic chorus effect. But if you like mucking around with it to get different sounds, then try out the Analogue Chorus.



I'm a bit of a fanatic about chorusing so am always trying out different ones.

I have a (older version) H2O Liquid Chorus & Echo which sounds fantastic- really lush & rich sound. It can be wide and spacey to convoluted & seasick as much as you like- the Delay Time control comes in handy for this. There's a nice delay effect too that works great for echo trails or slap-back. It gets a bit swooshy with high gain, and can muddy up the bottom end a little bit whlie making the mids sound a bit squawky. It's fine if you just use it sparingly.

I have a Neunaber Chroma Chorus- which is actually a 'non-cyclical chorus' micro-pitch shifter. It splits your signal into three, leaving the centre dry while detuning and uptuning the other two, depending on the Width setting. It can get really lush and works pretty well with a lot of gain, although I am picky about bottom end so I like to run it in a full wet/dry setup. It's good on clean & cleaner tones too, as it doesn't get that seasicky chorus sound.

I also have an old Rockman Stereo Chorus/Delay. This is a rack unit, but you could use it in front of your amp/s too, as there's three Level settings. This thing makes your sound REEAAAAAAAALLLLY WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE and is great for solos and even keyboards. It has some slightly different control types- The Speed control is marked in Hertz (very cool), and has different Mix settings. It gets around the warbliness by having a pre-set very short Width (4ms), rather than a variable Depth/Width control. The Delay Time (pre-delay) is also preset, at either 25ms or 50ms. This is what makes it sound so wide. 50ms makes it echo like a big tiled bathroom, or ye olde Babylon Club discotheque .
To me the tone is a little bit cold for clean sounds- if you want an example then listen to the clean parts of the verses in Boston's Don't Look Back.


And speaking of clean sounds- I actually use a slow flanger effect for that, an Electro Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress. It has such a warm, syrupy sound that really envelopes you.




John Suhr will be coming out with his own chorus pedal, called the Bella. There's been a lot of delays and bugs to fix but it should be great when it finally gets released, whenever that will be. I'm looking forward to trying it out.

Try the Ce-5. It has the high low cut knob. They're like $50 used. If you don't like it you can get you're $50 back.

 

[Digital Jams]

The Hardwire is VERY cool and would have that if I did not have the DC-2............................FLESH!

 

[halebox]

I love the Maxon CS-505. They make the same pedal in a smaller version but I forget the name. This chorus feels just perfect. It doesnt feel too thick or sterile. Doesnt feel sea sickish works great with distortion or clean. Highly recommend

 

[The Luke]

I've gone through a bunch, Analogman, Fulltone, etc...... I always come back to my CE-5. Works best for me. Always sounds great.

Me too. Especially if you can find one of the older analog ones.

Or the MXR Analog Chorus / Zakk Wylde Black Label Chorus - which are the same and seem to be analogue CE-5 copies.

My ol' black label CE-2 died, so I bought a new ZW38. Sounds like chorus. I'm happy.
The ZW38 is the same guts, but cheaper than the M234 Analog Chorus, and the paint doesn't bother me - it's a pedal.

 

[thenine]

I usually use a CE-5 but my old cheapo DD Ice Box sounds coolio with tons of gain.

 

[Tawlks]

i've been using my tc flashback delay as a sort of chorus verb'd effect in the mod setting//minimum delay, if you have one it's fun to try out, i quite like the results, very wide sounding:

https://soundcloud.com/paulb2/modflash


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others i've always heard recommendations for the retro-sonic chorus being top of the heap, so i'd probably look at one of those if i was being really serious about chorus (money wise that is

Same.

 

[squank]

Sold all of my others and kept just this.

This.

The Hardwire Chorus is shockingly good, and has a bunch of options.

I've owned/tried just about every chorus on the market, but this one is on my pedalboard.

 

[JohnnyC]

i only use chorus as a subtle affect (ie to add some shimmer/depth when rolling back a guitars volume knob to clean up an amps crunch channel)

didnt want to spend much and ended up being impressed by the rocktron reaction series.
picked up the chorus and made a demo shootout with the boss CE-5 (theres a link in my vid to another demo too)

 

[Mrevol]

Big fan of chorus pedals and have used a bunch in the studio. Let me first say that I lean more towards the chewy/warbaly old school chorus sound and not the 80's kind of chorus sound so with that being said here's the three best I have found and I own all three

Boss CE-1 (this is the classic and there's a reason why it fetches so much money)
Boss CE-2 (really great pedal and also a reason why so many people search for one)
Maxon CS-550 (under the radar but this thing is amazing with a little more flexibility then the previous two)

 

[petejt]

I love the Maxon CS-505. They make the same pedal in a smaller version but I forget the name. This chorus feels just perfect. It doesnt feel too thick or sterile. Doesnt feel sea sickish works great with distortion or clean. Highly recommend

I haven't tried the CS-505 before. Is it analogue or digital?