I can confidently say that this is the most versatile chorus pedal I'll show you in this article. I love the middle mode, which adds some pitch, and it also has a flange mode speed with an intensity and true stereo. Long story short: this is a phenomenal unit. I actually texted some of the TC crew and made sure of that. The unit I have in my collection is a reissue, not an original, but it sounds identical. Their product was the TC Electronic Stereo Chorus Plus.
The second pedal is also from 1976 (what can I say? It was a good year for pedals), but it came from a little Danish company that was just getting started, TC Electronics. You have to connect it with the attached power cable, but it's worth every bit of the effort and trouble.īasically, this sound is lush, it’s full, kind of like Fabio's hair. This thing will survive the zombie apocalypse. Yeah, they’re a little big, but this is definitely a case of ‘you get what you pay for’.
He uses it a ton, and you still see these pedals out on the road. I first played one when I played Brit of Spoon’s pedal board. If you've owned a Roland Jazz Chorus Amp, it's the same exact circuit. The BOSS CE-1 is the first ever bucket brigade pedal, because the inventor of the bucket brigade chipset (BBD) licensed it to Roland, Roland put the circuit in this pedal, and the world was forever changed. The first legendary chorus pedal comes from June 1976 (that's right, I even know the month): the BOSS CE-1 Chorus Ensemble.
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**Feel free to picture that last phrase shouted out by Will Smith while doing an iconic dance. So without further ado, let's jump on it.** That’s just how pedals work.Īt the end of the day, this is just a guide to show you the most legendary chorus pedals ever. I don’t mean that in a snobby, elitist way. The main thing is: you gotta play it yourself to really understand. If you can’t get hold of the original unit I’m describing, then get hold of a Line 6 modeling unit, or any really well-made clone that models the classic pedal. I’m going to do my best to describe the differences between these pedals, but the best way to really explore these different sounds is to actually get your hands on one, whether you borrow or buy it. I’m okay with that, as long as you also know that I'm just messing with you. I mean, Bill Clinton, maybe Brittany Spears, but as far as chorus pedals go, all the truly legendary stuff had come out by the late 1980s.** I'm not going to do anything past 1990, because there’s really nothing legendary from the nineties, let's be honest about that. The chorus pedal started in about 1975 with the development of the bucket brigade device and everything after that is some derivative of that same exact circuit. I have a ton of chorus pedals and I've chosen everything you're about to see for a specific reason, and one of those reasons is pretty much any pedal on earth is a spinoff of what I’m about to show you.Ī lot of these are very similar. There are inevitably some pedals that you guys love that I'm not going to mention, but I've thought this through. I only want to talk about classic pre-1990’s chorus pedals. I'm not going to talk about amps with chorus or rack units. I'm not going to talk about vibrato pedals. I'm only going to talk about classic chorus pedals. Easy peasy.īefore we get started, let me lay a few ground rules. In this article, I want to walk you through the most legendary chorus pedals that were ever made.
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