MrDan666":1qcuwic2 said:
I especially like the Tri-Chorus setting, total Landau 80's chorus/swell tone
Go check out their
Corona Chorus too- it has a dedicated Tri-Chorus mode.
After watching this video clip, my respect for TC Electronic has increased a lot. At 4:19 the demonstrator states exactly why I turned away from the TC Electronic Chorus in the first place- that bright, hi-fi slick sound that it's famous for, is just not my cup of tea. Now they have taken that into account and installed a Tone switch, so you can alter that particular sound. I feel quite grateful about this. I like that TC Electronic put a lot of time and effort into considering a wide variety of tastes while developing this effect pedal, and also they seem genuinely humble about it.
I also gleaned a fair bit of information about the Tri-Stereo Chorus effect, how it is used and chorus in general. Running three delay lines at once with slightly different depths, smooths out the warbling effect. I guess this is similar to the Strymon Ola Chorus, which also has a single delay line mode and a "Multi" triple delay line mode. I guess it's also similar to the Roland Dimension D/
Boss DC-2, which uses two delay lines but a trapezoidal LFO waveform, so the resultant pitch-shifting is much smoother rather than like bobbing up and down on a fishing boat- and therefore sounds more spatial, or as spatial without sounding mechanical. This appears to me that it would work better with distortion (since distortion compresses/squashes that pitch changing together, exaggerating it). This is handy for me because I'm trying to find the best way to get chorus to work with high gain without muddying up the tone, but to run in front of the amp rather than the effects loop.
Okay, I went a little off-track there. Well, maybe not, since there's been a few posts here recently about Eddie Van Halen's detune effect on
Balance and
F.U.C.K., which is another method to get chorus to work better with high gain.