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'Always On' Chorus

343 Salty Beans

343 Salty Beans

Jan 24, 2006
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I'd heard of some people using subtle chorus as part of their complete tone (always having the chorus on), so I tried it the other night. I was playing a gig where there happened to be another amp available, so one ran with the chorus always on. Bottom line: I kinda liked it. It was subtle, but definitely there, and the guy I was playing for even said my tone was better than it has been and asked what I did.

So how many of you guys use a chorus 'always on'?
 
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I don't normally, but just yesterday I unpacked the old UE303B in preparation for auctioning it off, and ran it through the blender loop... Man, the chorus blended with the clean signal made a super fat, fat tone! Loud, too (maybe that's why I liked it :rolleyes: ). I could definitely see myself using that as an "always on" sound for certain types of music. I have been waffling about whether to throw down for an Analogman chorus, but now I'm pretty sure it has to happen. :bassist:
 
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I went through a period where I did this, but with the detune setting on a Boss Harmonist. Just makes the notes "sizzle" a bit - especially when slapping. Les Claypool has been known to use a similar technique. I'm using it less these days because a Stingray with fresh strings needs no assistance in cutting through!!! :D
 
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I find myself leaving the chorus on a whole lot, it's one of those effects that never sounds bad when used without too crazy a speed. It's not like a phaser that gets annoying after 3 hours, or constant distortion that just makes me feel like a caveman. Not that that's a bad thing necessarily. :)
bongomania said:
I have been waffling about whether to throw down for an Analogman chorus, but now I'm pretty sure it has to happen. :bassist:
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Welcome to the umm... blue side.
 
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I rarely run dry. My main preset on my BAM 210 uses a bit of the flanger, so I pretty much always have it on. It provides some more depth and cut to my sound. When I want something even more subtle I switch to the chorus. But Justin Chancellor is my guardo camino of tone so, there you go.
 
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Tim, I just noticed what Tim is holding in your pic. That is genius :).

I have used the Fab chorus, and found it to be quite to my liking...although if I remember correctly, some of the settings were insanely unusable. Or maybe I'm thinking of the Flange...
 
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343 Salty Beans said:
Tim, I just noticed what Tim is holding in your pic. That is genius :).

I have used the Fab chorus, and found it to be quite to my liking...although if I remember correctly, some of the settings were insanely unusable. Or maybe I'm thinking of the Flange...
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Thanks!


Both the chorus and the flange can be set to "insane". I almost never use the flanger - it was a $15 experiment. They chorus, on the other hand, set pretty mildly, is on almost all the time to add some color, and it does a yeoman's job.

:)
 
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I don't either, I just traded my CE-20 for an EQ-20 (more value, and I really like it!). THe CE-20 was a NICE all-around unit, and I kinda miss it. I may pick one up later down the road again. Until then, my Nebula will handle those subtleties. :)
 
#16
No! I can picture parts inwhich I want a burpy, solid... like Hiphop sound - or a down-octaved, funky synthy part..

I love using chorus, but there would be some songs I do that ANY chorus would wreck, I think!

Like J.B.'s Sex Machine -- with CHORUS?!

Joe
 
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Baird6869 said:
...It just adds a bit of brightness (or something) to my sound.
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Ahh..! The brightness-thing: I have found profitable use for my CEB-3 - as most of you know, a simple 'vibrato/doubler- type', with a frequency-adjustable low-cut on the effect-part of the signal - as a 'brightener'. It's really, practically-speaking, not 'chorusing' to speak of when I turn that highpass way-way up there - but it DOES act as a kind of high-boost that comes-off smoother than if I were to have just boosted highs with EQ.

Joe
 
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Joe P said:
Ahh..! The brightness-thing: I have found profitable use for my CEB-3 - as most of you know, a simple 'vibrato/doubler- type', with a frequency-adjustable low-cut on the effect-part of the signal - as a 'brightener'. It's really, practically-speaking, not 'chorusing' to speak of when I turn that highpass way-way up there - but it DOES act as a kind of high-boost that comes-off smoother than if I were to have just boosted highs with EQ.

Joe
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Someone should make a bass guitar oriented 'treble booster'...like a Dallas Rangemaster for bass or something :)
 
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