Boss CEB-3 Bass Chorus Pedal

there are better chorus pedals out there... out of all of my effects i think this is probably my worst (w/ the exception of the ibanez delay which i bought because it sucked ). It causes a decent amount of hiss and the sound isnt to special anyway. check out some other pedals first and even most guitar ones hold up just as good as the CEB-3

 

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has anyone here ever tried the ibanez cf7 on bass? i mean i knwo its a guitar pedal but the tonelok series is awsome so it might sound alright so, yeah, has anyone tried it?

 

Anyone mind explaining to me exactly what a chorus pedal does? thanks, forgive my ignorance

 

1. split signal into 2 lines
2. delay one line by 20 to 50 milliseconds
3. vary the delay across time (that's the "rate" knob)
4. recombine the two lines

What you hear is the two signals alternately reinforcing and cancelling varying frequency bands. And this is why most guitar choruses do NOT work well with bass... eventually, the requency cancellation will swing past 100 Hz, and the bottom will drop out of your tone. The CEB-3 has a frequency threshold knob (forgot what it's called on the gadget) that limits adjusts how low you want the effect to work, so it keeps the low frequencies out of the mix, protecting the bottom end. The Boss CE-5 goes one better, providing low AND high limit knobs.

Incidentally, a flanger is the same thing, only operating in the 5-15 millisecond delay area. Flangers actually got their name from the old analog tape trick of making a copy of a tape, playing the two tapes on two players, and dragging one's thumbs alternately on the outside edges (flanges) of the two tape reels. The two player's outputs were then combined onto a third recorder, with the resulting effect a swirling sound. The slow middle section of the Doobie Brothers' "Listen To The Music" ("like a lazy flowin' river...") was done with tape flanging.

Chorus is simply a longer delay. And after 50 ms or so, the ear starts to hear the two signals as seprate events, so it starts to become slapback echo. And that's why all of these effects are called "delay line" effects and are often all available in a single stomp box.

More than you wanted to know, I'm sure...

 

I have a CEB-3 and I think it is fine. It may not be the best chorus out there, but it is great for the price. I put mine in my effects loop (the only pedal that is there) and that eliminated any swooshing or other weird noises coming from it when not in use. I don't use a chorus that much, but when I do (for the money) the CEB-3 is quite good.

-KB

 

I use it all the time.. i've put the rate on minimal and the depth on 40 %...it adds a very nice athmospherical effect to the overdrive

 

Check out Duff McKagan from Gn´R´s, he use a little bit of chorus on his sound, specially on Use your illusion albums (I know there are a lot of other player who use it, this is the one I can remember)

Paz