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Bass chorus
- Thread starter Steve Young
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Best for one person isn’t always the same for another. Everyone has a unique take on price vs quality/features.
Those are 2 very different questions.
If you don't know "why", you may need to answer that before you know "what".
Plus, there is no one best anything.
What are you trying to achieve?
If you can answer that you will get some very good suggestions from this group.
The ‘why’ is if you, and only you, feel that it can enhance, or flavor in a positive way, your sound in the context of your band. Which one? Well, what made you decide on the car that you’re driving? Is there a particular song(or band)that you heard that made you think, “that sounds cool, I wanna try that”?
I like Chorus, it makes me happy, it makes my wife happy, so I have many chorus pedals, there are many like them, but these ones are mines. It makes things shiny!
BurningSkies
CRAZY BALDHEAD
- Feb 20, 2005
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I've been using an Iron Ether Polytope for a while now. It's a bass-centric Chorus with great features. I also have a super weirdo early 80's Ibanez bi-mode chorus that does some really cool unique weirdo stuff...I'd never get rid of that either.
My favorite is the MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe for two reasons...it's very warm and not steely sounding (which reminds me of the 80's and is a complete turnoff for me), and it has a nifty little flanger built in. The flanger won't do rocketship sounds but it's good if you want a little extra swirl to your sound.
Why do you want one? You may not. I'm not using one in my current band, and when I do use one, I use it quite sparingly (did I mention the 80's?).
Why do you want one? You may not. I'm not using one in my current band, and when I do use one, I use it quite sparingly (did I mention the 80's?).
The best chorus for bass is (insert your current chorus name here). It is needed because without it, well... let’s just not go there....
For me, I use a "one box fits all my modulation needs" pedal / panel. It's a Strymon Mobius. The filters on it are ok but not a patch on dedicated filters or options on other pedals on my board. My H9, Hog 2 and C4 filters blow the Mobius away in this regard. The Chorus and Flanger are excellent and are easily the two types I use the most. The Vintage Trem and Rotary are amazing, but the best bit for me is the Midi control. Autoswell...I'd rather control with my Expression pedal set as a volume pedal. The other options like the pattern trem, Destroyer and Quad are great but they aren't sound I'm currently using.
That said, I'm not a normal bassist per-say so something like my rig probably wouldn't suit most other players. For years I had a TCe Corona which has a great CE-1 patch on their download site. I also used a Zoom MS-70CDR and that had a lot of chorus options...including a near perfect copy of the TCe Corona. If the MS-70CDR had some expression control...I'd probably still have one on my board...it's THAT good...and relatively cheap.
That said, I'm not a normal bassist per-say so something like my rig probably wouldn't suit most other players. For years I had a TCe Corona which has a great CE-1 patch on their download site. I also used a Zoom MS-70CDR and that had a lot of chorus options...including a near perfect copy of the TCe Corona. If the MS-70CDR had some expression control...I'd probably still have one on my board...it's THAT good...and relatively cheap.
This one was released last year ish and is pretty highly regarded (rightly so) for its low price, ease of use, and it's crossover feature >
BurningSkies
CRAZY BALDHEAD
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My problem with the Mobius is that it's just so big. I can justify that with my Timeline, but I'm only using chorus or a few other modulation related effects during the set, thus having the Polytope which does one thing really well but has a fairly small footprint. If you either have a large board, or you've only got a handful of things the Mobius obviously fits in fine.
For me the 'auto-swell' volume thing...well I tried using the swell envelope on the C4 and it just doesn't really do it well. The best bang for the money on that right now is the Mooer Slow Engine which is a Slow Gear clone but in a 'micro' sized enclosure. I've put mine back on my board. I do have a Dunlop expression/volume pedal as well but there's a song or two where I'm using expression AND I want swell and I don't have enough feets to do both independently and not fall over on stage.
What I'd really like to see is the size of these digital pedals to shrink. I was holding out that the SA Collider would be a verb/delay killer in a reasonable sized box with MIDI control, but it ended up looking to me like a verb/delay 'lite' sacrifice in a box.
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Way more partial to the subtlety and simplicity of the phasor
Way more partial to the subtlety and simplicity of the phasor
MXR Analog Chorus is great. $99 and suits my needs just fine. I love sounding like I’m straight out of an 80’s flick or late 90’s space rock album.
I still love the Boss Wazacraft chorus. The CE-1 setting sounds lovely. I'm kind of coming at it from the opposite perspective from Jimmy, I'm a huge fan of The Cure and that whole really chorus/flange-drenched sound. I've yet to try a non-Boss pedal that gets the sound I'm looking for.
As for why it's needed... it's not. I don't need it, I use it because I like it. Simple as that.
As for why it's needed... it's not. I don't need it, I use it because I like it. Simple as that.
Bassist4Eris
Frat-Pack Sympathizer
I've been through a ton of them, and I'm currently in love with the EHX Bass Clone. I like them for making a pretty part sound even prettier, especially playing chords on a sixer. I also like them for putting a little sparkle on my slap tone.
I've bought the EHX Neo Clone before the Bass Clone was released, and I love it. It maybe cuts a little bit of lowend, but sounds great. Most of the times I prefer it in comparison with my second DYI chorus, it's more sparkly and I hear better, that it's working.
+1 on the Tech 21.
Man, those folks at Tech 21 are smart. Seriously, look at their history of products -- have they ever made a dud or something that makes folks say, "Now, what'd they do that for?"
You peeps rock, Tech 21.
Man, those folks at Tech 21 are smart. Seriously, look at their history of products -- have they ever made a dud or something that makes folks say, "Now, what'd they do that for?"
You peeps rock, Tech 21.
My TC electronic delay pedal. Because it does a nice chorus sound without taking up the space on my pedalboard another pedal would take up(so basically you get delay and chorus in one pedal) Lot of the digital delay pedals that are out now have modulated delay. Which is basically delay with a chorus and you can actual use that as a chorus on a lot the newer digital delay pedals if you turn the delay/repeats all the way down so it doesn’t repeat. My second favorite is actually the bass whammy. It’s detune settings (shallow and deep) are also modulation very similar to the modulation on digital delay pedals.
