Whats the hip chorus pedal these days?

[Casper]

I've been using the Jaques Meistersinger for the last 6 years. The switch is starting to go. I thought I would try something new. I don't have alot of real estate to spare on the pedalboard and I would like the pedal to be truebypass. I heard the new Radial Vienna Chorus on the computer yestrday and although I thought it was a crappy demo, I see potential in this pedal. It has two separate choruses. Radial makes great stuff from what I hear..
What are you folks using these days? I sure wish David Barber would make a chorus pedal!!
Thanks!
Shaun

[GuitArtMan]

Well the Meistersinger is a great bang-for-buck chorus. That said, nothing has bumped the Fulltone ChoralFlange off of my board in 10+ years now - well at least not for long. The AnanlogMan clone is another great chorus,

That said, I just bought one of these and OMG!!!
http://www.strymon.net/products/lex/

[Pietro]

The 80s called and want their gimmick back...

No. Sorry... Since the 80s are back... why shouldn't this effect be, right?

One time I was practicing with an old band and my brother (who plays bass and sings backup) walks over and steps on the button of my chorus to turn it off (and hopefully, for him, to break it) and shouts "Turn that thing off! I can't find my note when you have that stupid thing on." I never used chorus again.

I did, however, REALLY dig the old 2-battery Danelectro Cool Cat chorus. WOW! turn the speed all the way down, turn up the depth just a tad, and use it to split to two amps... HUGE!

[tom]

i too had the aversion to chorus. then when i got my M9 i actually found the analog chorus usable every once in a while. less is certainly more with modulation effects. i love that the m9 has all the stuff that i would only use occasionally but doesn't have to take up any space.

[Pietro]

i too had the aversion to chorus. then when i got my M9 i actually found the analog chorus usable every once in a while. less is certainly more with modulation effects. i love that the m9 has all the stuff that i would only use occasionally but doesn't have to take up any space.

Every now and then on the HD 500 (and previously on the M13) I try to use Chorus, but always end up on opto trem instead... or rotary drum or uni-vibe.

Honestly, I try to use Chorus, but I get the shakes and start to hear The Fixx in my head and then I just run away...

I think my brother frightened the chorus out of me...

[Casper]

We do alot of 70's and 80s funk, so chorus and or spatial effects are needed.
I do like that rotary, but unfortunately have no need. The analog man chorus is promising! the L6 stuff just doesn't do it for me, + its digital, not where I am now although the conveinience and choices it provides are quite tempting.
thanks guys!

[kevin h]

an old boss ce-2 is hard to beat for a classic analog chorus sound.

i haven't done a gig without one since the early 80's.

david lindley turned me on to a setting on the ce-2 where you run the depth all the way up and then set the speed to taste (usually around 10 o'clock).

[tmihm]

Funny...when I think of "80s and chorus" ONE thing comes to mind:

Adrain Belew in King Crimson.;) Some beautiful (and sometimes REAL distorted and compressed) stuff from that era too. You just had to dig a bit to find it...didn't get much air play.

I loved to use chorus before - I've had a bunch of JC120's over the years, but have since lost a lot of my love for it. I use it at church sparingly (when the piano is tuned - the beast slips out of tune every few months), but don't use it in the band I'm in now. I would like to get a really nice one to mess around though - I think I'd enjoy it more. I have a couple of multi-effect processors that do a fair job.

Sorry...I guess that doesn't help the original post. :rolleyes:

[bud]

I agree with Tom, the M9 is great for all the flavors you can get out of one box. Turn the mix down if you don't like the Andy Summers sort of thing. I like chorus for more of an EJ'ish clean tone. I think he still uses a TC pedal at the end of his signal chain to split it stereo on the clean side of his rig. I used to have and love the Danelectro pedal, sounded great, but the housing cracked after about a year.

[Pietro]

My favorite Line6 choruses are the analog and the Dimension models, if anybody's counting... even though I only ever use them to entertain myself, not to play with a band.

But hey, maybe I'll get into an 80s cover band! Ya never know!

I predict, despite my own preferences, that chorus will start to be HUGE again REAL soon... The 80s are SO back.

[Thoth105]

I still really like the good old tc chorus.
But, I've taken to using the Bigfoot Fx magnavibe. It's a pedal that does the magnatone pitch shifting vibrato. Really great and surprisingly versatile.

[wolf]

Analogman chorus... simply beautiful sounding.

I've had the Bi Chorus for 4 years and I'll never look for anything else.

[octatonic]

Fulltone Choralflange is great.

Check out the Strymon too.

[curtisjames]

Diamond Halo Chorus....comparable to Analoman but a little warmer and richer....but pricey as well....

[theatomicjeff]

I used to use the Retro-sonic chorus ensemble. It's pricey but it's got a nice CE-1 cloned tone.

[Suriel Zayas]

the new tc corona is pretty cool and reasonably priced.

[Casper]

Saw and heard it on the net..pricey, but man is it cool!!!:D
http://proguitarshop.com/store/effects-chorus-pedals-c-602_70/tortuga-effects-martini-chorus-p-2513

[santellavision]

The most awesome chorus that I have (IMHO) is he Red Witch Deluxe Moon Phaser. It is amazing. Does Chorus, Phasing and Tremolo, but the Chorus is to DIE for. Think, thick, chewy, underwater chorus sound on Zeppelin's "Nobody's fault but mine". Awesome!

http://www.redwitchanalogpedals.com/MoonPhaser.aspx

[curtisjames]

You cant beat the 1980's Boss CE-2 MIJ Black label Chorus pedal. Hundreds of musicians still keep-em on their boards. I modded mine with a Monte Allums. You could spend $200.00-$300.00 chasing the sound they got right 30 years ago. This is one pedal Boss IS Boss.

[magnus]

Kind of depends on what you´re after. If you want a more shimmering static effect (instead of a thick vintage warbly chorus) I really like the old Boss DC-2 (Dimension C).