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Favorite Bass Chorus Pedals?

#41
Just watched the ProGuitarShop video on the new ubertiny Malekko chorus. Don't think anyone has one on here yet, but does anyone think that the chip inside it (some bucket brigade one-forget name) is worth the 140 for it?

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EDIT: Chip used is a MN3007 IC
 
#42
I don't like Chorus pedals, they all sound xxxx to me and steal to much presence in the band... but when I heard the Fulltone Choralflange the first time I bought it directly. It's a mix Pedal with chorus and flanging-sounds. great thing. Very cool to get sharp Jazzbasses tighter
 
#47
Update:

a Hardwire cr-7 just arrived today. First impressions indicate that I definitely made the right choice for what I was after. I imagine I'll leave it on the studio or multi mode most often but I can see the vintage mode getting some play time too.


this has been a great chorus thread...
see you all in the next one, right?
 
#49
sleepy_monkey said:
+1000 I have tried out several chorus pedals for bass and this was always my favorite...PLUS the delay is probably one of the better delays on bass that I have heard.
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the H20 is a great chorus, very very thick. but my Maxon CS-550 is doing most of my chorus duties, much more natural and transparent for regular use. I wonder how the CS550 compares to the CS9? They have the same controls.

The H2O is currently being used as a stand-in flanger, the lush sound imitates flange well. As for the echo channel of the H2O; sounds fine, better tone than my Hardwire DL8 delay. But active basses tend to overload and distort it, I recommend it for passive basses only.
 
#50
I like my EBS Unichorus. I'm not a flanger fan, so I rarely use that setting. The chorus is very thick and lush, and the pitch modulation setting can make you downright seasick! Sounds sweet on my Stingray 5 fretless. It's one of the few choruses I've ever used that truly does not cut low frequencies.
 
#52
While my absolute favorite proper chorus is found on the Roland JC-77 amplifier - a CE-1, minus the separate vibrato, but plus the speed adjustment the JC-120/CE-1 lacks - I might have found a new challenger to the throne: the chorus side of the Visual Sound H20. I just tried one today, and I'm seriously tempted to trade my Stereo Clone Theory for it tomorrow. Talk me out of it. Seriously.
 
#53
andvari7 said:
While my absolute favorite proper chorus is found on the Roland JC-77 amplifier - a CE-1, minus the separate vibrato, but plus the speed adjustment the JC-120/CE-1 lacks - I might have found a new challenger to the throne: the chorus side of the Visual Sound H20. I just tried one today, and I'm seriously tempted to trade my Stereo Clone Theory for it tomorrow. Talk me out of it. Seriously.
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Okay, Self, I'll try to talk me out of trading a Stereo Clone Theory for a Visual Sound H20. My local Guitar Center has a Roland JC-55 amp. Get that instead - oh, wait; I DID. All that's keeping me from enjoying it is the fact that my county has a ten-day used-product waiting period (to ensure that the object wasn't stolen), and it ends on Tuesday. I can wait for those two days, and so can they; they have to - I put it on layaway.

Did I forget to mention the JC-55 has the same chorus goodness as a JC-77? Identical, minus the 22 watts I neither need nor want for a combo amp.
 
#54
FromTheBassMent said:
I like my EBS Unichorus. I'm not a flanger fan, so I rarely use that setting. The chorus is very thick and lush, and the pitch modulation setting can make you downright seasick! Sounds sweet on my Stingray 5 fretless. It's one of the few choruses I've ever used that truly does not cut low frequencies.
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+1

I love mine because it maintains the low end quite nicely and, being an EBS, it's well built. If you're looking for a chorus with extreme depth, however, this isn't the pedal, which is in keeping with EBS penchant for more subtle effects.

Aside from the EBS, I actually like the old brown DOD bass chorus pedal, which is surprisingly similar, tonally, to the EBS, albeit without mod and flange functionality.
 
#60
Elrend said:
Could it have any use in electronic music?
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Absolutely. As a matter of fact, whenever people are trying to do the octave + fuzz + filter thing to simulate a synth with their bass, I always think that chorus is what is really missing. Because a lot of the synth tones used out there in electronic music are really multiple synth voices, slightly detuned from each other, which is exactly what chorus does. If you put a chorus after a fuzz, it sounds much more like an authentic synth than without it.
 

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