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Favorite Chorus

#61
Joe P said:
That's one reason I so-like my CEB-3.

The CEB-3 features a filter control that is continuously-variable over a wide range of freqs. You can tell it to chorus everything (all frequencies), all the way to just the high-highs - I mean just thin harmonics, way up-there.

I usually always carefully adjusted the filter, but only over a small range - like 8:00 to 10:30 on the knob (that's essentially NO fundamentals). But lately I've been working on my clean tone, and that's led me to run the filter as high as (uh.. 'high' on the knob - clockwise - causes it to include MORE lows in the chorusing)11:30 or 12:00. (Oo - I'm gettin' wild now...)

I've had very nice results with running it after the overdrive and before the hard-distortion (best results to me is for the pitch-shifting psychodelia to sound like Robin Trower); for that I keep the filter to not-much fundamentals to speak of - maybe just tick'lin'em. Usual setting for is 3:30, 10:00, 1:30, 10:30.

For clean I use 3:30, 11:30 (maybe 12:30?.. still working on it), 1:00, 11:00.

Joe
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i like the ceb-3 so much i'm not even gonna try anymore chorus pedals.

ok, maybe in like a year.
 
#64
bongomania said:
Ooh! Any chance you could compare the Analogman with the Retro-Sonic?
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My guitarist uses the retrosonic and i use a mini analogman deep modded with blend knob. we swapped for one practice. the retrosonic sounds hella cool. its definately more shimmery on the high end. its ... ok on the low. unfortunately, it was very prone to clipping, especially with my active bass. i believe the newer versions have a new ic or two and are supposed to clip less. the analog man (like the old version retro, it too takes 15 vdc power) never clips. they both do the "bending the pitch so much that it almost sounds bad" thing nicely. the analogman deep definately lets the lows of the bass guitar become effected and then pass through. the retro cant quite handle them. but gawd i love the shimmer of the retrosonic on guitar. it sounds like angels singing. at the end of our experiment we agreed that we liked the analogman deep for bass, and the retrosonic for guitar. make your guitarist get one!
 
#67
nun lover said:
i like the ceb-3 so much i'm not even gonna try anymore chorus pedals.

ok, maybe in like a year.
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Does anyone know if the Boss CEB-3 is analog or digital? For that matter, what about the CE-5 and CH-1? The analog vs. digital debate doesn't much matter to me because I am of the belief that if it sounds good, it doesn't matter. I'm really just curious.
 
#68
If you have the cash, drop it on the Analogman. However, I don't think you can get more bang for your buck than the Danelectro Cool Cat Chorus--Looks cheesy and has a cheesy name, but it sounds warm and fat and doesn't suck low end. Oh, and be sure to put it directly between your amp and speaker. Sounds best there. :p
 
#72
lowstar said:
ce-5 and ch-1 were switched to digital by october 2001, before that, they were analog.
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Well THAT's interesting..

How'd it go? Did they 'sneak it in', or bring in this state-of-the-art, high-tech upgrade with fanfare? (I notice that they didn't change the model# to CE-5d and CH-1d or anything)

And - while we're at it, (I'm sure this has been covered before, but..) is there ANY way to tell the difference by looking?

Joe
 
#77
johnvice said:
Has anyone tried a Carl Martin Bass Chorus ?
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i have tried it, and it is really excellent...just a bit big in footprint.
it has a very distinct voice of it´s own, modulates down into the low freq´s, i guess no hi-pass thingy there, but still plenty of bass, nice and round. the two settings are a nifty add-on. lots of headroom, runs from the mains and transforms down to +/- 15v internally.

cheers,
lowstar
 

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