What's your favorite Chorus Pedal?

[Jack Clayton]

My favorite chorus is technically the Boss CE-2W. But I've used it a lot less since I got the Thorpy Chamoflange. It's become my go to for any kind of modulation, but especially chorus sounds. Captures the old electric mistress sound pretty perfectly.

 

[cyclopean]

good to point out. the soul vibe isn't a chorus, it's a phaser.

vibrato/vibe mode on chorus or phaser both achieve a pitch warble effect. the boss vibrato is 100% wet chorus, and the uni-vibe style vibe is 100% wet phaser.

but the effect is done totally differently (delay vs filter).

Do phasers really have anything to do with soul?

 

[loopfinding]

Do phasers really have anything to do with soul?

have you ever listened to an isley brothers record?

 

[SixStringSlinger]

have you ever listened to an isley brothers record?

This. Also, I think of the Soul Vibe as less of a phaser and more of a Uni-Vibe. I guess you could say that a Uni-Vibe is a kind of phaser (these exist on a spectrum, along with chorus and flanger effects, albeit probably a three-dimensional spectrum), but a Uni-Vibe has a more wet, psychedelic sound than what I usually associate with a phaser (which to me is more of a dry, jet-engine sound).

More Hendrix than Van Halen, if you will.

 

[darkwaters]

Can’t say I have one. Don’t like chorus at all. In my defence, I don’t like most effects. Give me reverb, tremolo and an EQ pedal and I’m good to go.

 

[black_doug]

 

[cyclopean]

have you ever listened to an isley brothers record?

I mostly do sixties stax.

 

[loopfinding]

This. Also, I think of the Soul Vibe as less of a phaser and more of a Uni-Vibe. I guess you could say that a Uni-Vibe is a kind of phaser (these exist on a spectrum, along with chorus and flanger effects, albeit probably a three-dimensional spectrum), but a Uni-Vibe has a more wet, psychedelic sound than what I usually associate with a phaser (which to me is more of a dry, jet-engine sound).

More Hendrix than Van Halen, if you will.

oh the uni-vibe is a phaser (multi-stage allpass filter) like any other, it just doesn't have postive feedback ("resonance" like on a synth filter) like later designs, so the effect is less comb filtery, and it's also done up discretely with transistors and optos (introducing some distortion/different sweep) instead of with FETs/opamps or an OTA.

if you know how synth guys have all these filter preferences ("diode ladder filter," "OTA filter," "vactrol filter," etc), this is a similar thing. if you want to conceptualize it like compressors, you can think of it more like the uni-vibe is like an opto, the mxr is like a FET, the ehx is like a vca.

 

[FenderLover]

"Favorite Chorus" seems to come up quite a bit lately but I gotta vote again for my DC-2 and CH-1. Those two I own, but the TC Flange/Chorus sounds great too. Dumped it because I couldn't deal with the AC cord. Probably a dumb move. Have a Deja Vibe with a chorus setting. It's the fisrt version, and in stereo. What a tank, but sounds great.

 

[StuartJames]

Ive got a CE2, HF2, and MooerEnsemble King. Just got a DC2w, it’s has quickly become my favourite. Very subtle but so sweet!

 

[uriah1]

Analogman mini chorus..with knob control

 

[schenkadere]

JC 120! The pedal turns it on and off!

I have a JC-22 and the chorus really is gorgeous...just right!

 

[Bruxist]

Honestly, it was the Chorus on my old Fender Princeton Chorus. But I have a DOD Ice Box that works just fine.

 

[wildschwein]

Rocktek:

rocktek chorus - Google Search

 

[Tim S]

Analogman mini chorus..with knob control

You mean the optional external Mix knob? Don’t forget the stereo option (and the depth toggle is nice to have too)

 

[bobio]

 

[badscrew_projects]

I guess I’ve never graduated out of the EC-2. Never felt the urge to move to something else…

 

[uriah1]

You mean the optional external Mix knob? Don’t forget the stereo option (and the depth toggle is nice to have too)

Ya lol !!

 

[Trenchant63]

CE-5 has worked great through the years - it doesn’t mess with your EQ and just simply adds it’s effect transparently.

 

[AAT65]

JC 120! The pedal turns it on and off!

JC-40 for me! The Vox footswitch (originally used for my AC15C1) now switches chorus and reverb on the JC-40.