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12-17-2007, 08:28 PM
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i play alot of instrumental music, with some really ambient tones, and i was beginning to look at pedals to buy after the holidays. I was looking at the boss chorus and it always had high reviews, but i have no clue what it is.
could someone help me out here? thanks
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12-17-2007, 08:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wilmington, NC | | | It basically replicates your sound many times, but some of the added parts will be very slightly out of time or out of tune to give the effect of several people playing at once, hence the name "chorus."
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12-17-2007, 09:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | I would say it gives the impression of replicating your sound. The aim of a chorus pedal is to trick your ears into thinking there's several instruments playing in unison. It is in fact a delay circuit where the very short (average) delay time is modulated by a low frequency oscillator.
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12-17-2007, 10:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wilmington, NC | | | Right, but there's also pitch modulation.
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12-17-2007, 10:30 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | The pitch modulation is achieved by oscillating the delay time. Time = frequency = pitch. Also, analog choruses typically have only one delay line (replicating the sound once, not many times), but digital choruses (chorii?) sometimes use different methods, sometimes including multiple delay lines.
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12-17-2007, 10:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | Pitch mod is produced by modulating the delay time. Think about what happens when you twiddle the delay time knob on an old analogue delay pedal.
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12-17-2007, 10:39 PM
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12-17-2007, 11:27 PM
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12-18-2007, 12:54 AM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | a chorus pedal is one that when turned on (effect), a chorus of 300 people appear behind you and harmonize with your bass notes.
a beautiful thing really. now if only i could keep that chorus fed all the time...  |
12-18-2007, 04:22 AM
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12-18-2007, 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by niftydog Oh dear... I hope you're not as tragic as an old work colleague who genuinely felt that "Kentucky Fried Movie" was the best film ever! | Well..............it was a pretty funny movie. 
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12-18-2007, 07:23 AM
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12-18-2007, 11:34 AM
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12-18-2007, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Vic Winters Think "Come As You Are" by Nirvana. | Actually, I think that's a flanger. Chorii (I'm going to use that from now on, thanks Bongo) produce a sometimes similar sounding, but distinctly different effect. Typically the delay time in a flanger is shorter with more feedback. |
12-18-2007, 02:30 PM
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"Come as You are" is most definatly a chorus. Kurt Cobain is what you're hearing, he used an Electro Harmonix Small Clone chorus for that sound, I'm pretty sure the bass is just clean. Novoselic used a Gibson bass, which, with Gibson, was thick enough with those duel humbuckers to make the sound you hear. God Bless
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12-18-2007, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Swimming Bird Actually, I think that's a flanger. Chorii (I'm going to use that from now on, thanks Bongo) produce a sometimes similar sounding, but distinctly different effect. Typically the delay time in a flanger is shorter with more feedback. | OK time to be Mr. Professor here. Actually, it would be chori. You only get the double i in words that already have an i in them, like radius -> radii. It was a chorus, Butch Vig talked about it in an interview in some damn magazine. |
12-20-2007, 04:22 AM
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Originally Posted by markjazzbassist a chorus pedal is one that when turned on (effect), a chorus of 300 people appear behind you and harmonize with your bass notes.
a beautiful thing really. now if only i could keep that chorus fed all the time... | Man that would be such a beautiful effect, you could have everyone at different octaves, oh such beauty.....
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12-20-2007, 05:07 AM
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Originally Posted by slingusahook Man that would be such a beautiful effect, you could have everyone at different octaves, oh such beauty.....
Thank you for making my day | In unison only, though.
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12-21-2007, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ehque In unison only, though. | Technically, if anyone if harmonising, it is not unison.
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12-22-2007, 07:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Madison, WI | | | Was Nevermind before Cobain started using the Poly-Chorus? I guess I concede. I listened to it again and I doubted it was flanger for the first time. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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