Boss CEB-3 or EHX Electric Mistress

[socialleper]

I'm looking to get a chorus pedal and I think I have narrowed it down to these two. I'm looking for something that will make my clean tone "pretty" without covering it up too much or making it too space age psychedelic.
The flexibility of the Boss Chorus Ensemble for Bass is very attractive, but I'm worried that it will sound overly cheap or synthetic. The combination of having a flanger and chorus in one pedal makes the Electric Mistress attractive, but it's not designed for bass and I would loose some of the control over my tone.

I'm looking for input from people that have these and who hav possibly done an A/B comparison. As it always seems to be, I can't find a shop that has both in stock so I can't do my own Pepsi challenge.

[BruceBass3901]

I have the CEB-3, and I think that it is a little too 'weak' sounding. Whn you mess around with it for sometime, you can find a nice setting, but I usually find that it gets lost very easily.

I haven't tried the Electric Mistress, but I have heard a few good reports of it.

A good place to look is on the 'Post Your pedalborad Thread' and see if anybody has either one (or both) and ask them their opinions directly. I have found that everybody on here is more than willing to help ... very friendly bunch

[bigchiefbc]

I have owned both of these pedals, so I'll summarize my thoughts for you.

The CEB-3 is a pretty subtle chorus, which adds a bit of a "shimmer" to your signal, without getting to warbley or watery. I liked it quite a bit, but a lot of people around here think it is too subtle. They tend to recommend that people instead try the CE-5, which is a similar sounding chorus, but can get more extreme chorus sounds.

The Electric Mistress (which I still own) is a very different beast. It is much more of a warbly, watery chorus that has more movement, and less shimmer to it. The flanger is a great one, but be judicious with the flanger depth, anything above 1 or 2 o'clock and it starts sounding like ball bearings running down a pipe. I love being able to blend chorus and flanger in one pedal, and I dig this pedal.

Don't worry about the bass-specific stuff, I find it completely meaningless with modulation pedals, and choruses in particular. You won't lose any low-end.