Chorus- are you a yay or a nay?

Sporky

slacker said:

Sort of-I had a CE2 and I sold it, possibly to Sporky. 

I don't think I've ever owned a CE-2.

Grunfeld

I'm a fan of all things swirly so there's always a chorus pedal on my board.
After years of DC-2 I changed to a CE-2 a little while back.  No particular reason, just fancied a change.

slacker

I sold you something

BigMonka

ICBM said:

I agree that anyone using it on a piezo-pickup electro-acoustic needs to have their fingers broken, too...

My acoustic amp has an awful built in chorus effect (but no reverb cos that might have been useful!) - I can't see a single situation where you would want that horrific sound added to your nice natural acoustic sound!

ICBM

Skarloey said:

I think chorus plus out of phase Strat is good. Think Richard Thompson

I'd really rather not. I want to like his music, but I find his guitar sound so distractingly awful I just can't listen to it.

richardhomer

I'm very much in the 'Remain' camp when it comes to chorus (Pedal Mods tweaked vintage CE-2).

When I turn it off, I feel a little piece of me has died....

Octahedron

My TC Electronic Nova Repeater delay lets me blend in a bit of chorus or vibrato, but not both, with my delay. I usually add a little touch of vibrato to my delay and leave it. 

Given the choice between the two I prefer vibrato. Chorus is a bit swishy for me. You can produce a similar shimmer effect with the right reverb. So if I want that I just change my reverb settings up a bit and the blend of the vibrato in the Nova Repeater and the extra shimmer in the reverb makes a nicer sounding chorus than a chorus pedal  

chromatuna

Yay but it depends on the style of music I am playing. At the moment covering solo Beatles tunes I use one for maybe 10 minutes in a two and and a half hour performance to get some Leslie ish movement. I have found full on Leslie sim a bit much for my needs.

The chorus has to have a blend control for me so that I can make it subtle and I have found (after trying a few booteeq offerings) the MXR Analog ideal. If I am playing more rootsy music then it's a nay and I use tremolo as my only modulation effect apart from the subtly modulated delay on my Carbin Copy. 

xSkarloey

ICBM said:

Skarloey said:

I think chorus plus out of phase Strat is good. Think Richard Thompson

I'd really rather not. I want to like his music, but I find his guitar sound so distractingly awful I just can't listen to it.

@icbm Do we agree on nothing?!

Would it help you see the light if I turned up at your place playing Richard Thompson tunes on an out of phase Strat, through a CE2  pedal.......
















....plugged into a Session amp?

Gassage

Re the OP, I guess liking digital chorus is a binary thing.

xSkarloey

@Gassage To that I can only respond 10000111100001111000000 

Or 



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Gassage

I prefer this- the first lady of effects

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6859108/

xSkarloey

Gassage said:

I prefer this- the first lady of effects

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6859108/

Don't jam with her though. 

lasermonkey

She's better than bad, she's good!

erky32

For covers band I use chorus for a pseudo 12-string, or the odd song which really demands it. In fact on my pedal board I use a POG-2 which I preset as 12 string or as softer chorus ....it does both jobs really well and economises on board space (as well as mimicking octaver & keyboards!!). For electro acoustic work I sometimes use a smidge of chorus to warm the sound a bit. So for me chorus is a "yay" abeit limited use!

thermionic

Definitely a chorus fan. I loved the Smiths/REM stuff in the 80s (even though they didn't always use chorus, it helps). My first one was cheap plastic Rocktek, which sounded surprisingly good, and even more surprisingly, never broke in my days of gigging. I did a lot of stuff (live and recorded) where I was the only guitar player, and we needed something to thicken up a clean sound. Delay pedals were too expensive to a poor student.

I have a CE-2, and will almost certainly get a CE-2w...

professorben

Sporky said:

Only before dirt. And preferably a DC-2.

I'm a recent convert to Chorus before Dirt. 
Its a quite nice effect if used sparingly. 

baddog01

I'm a chorus lover:) just build a BYOC Boss CE-2 clone. 

samzadgan

Simple glassy chorus - nay

weird wobbly chorus - yay (the EQD sea machine is awesome for useable weirdness)

johnonguitar

Chorus is always the first mod on my board.

If you work in a covers band of any description it's a must.

left to my own devices I use chorus for some clean fusiony chord stuff, the odd hair metal blow out and if I'm writing/recording