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Hell just froze over...chorus content

#102
I use them separately, mainly with clean boosted sound (with delay). Guitar version is good for transparent sound, bass version - for something more juicy and powerful - and for lots of bottom. Their Boost is very useful for moving up/down in the mix.
 
#103
When you turn the intensity down pn the BCD, how clean is the non-processed sound?
or
Am I worng that with the intensity at zero, there is still some effect going on.
I'm wondering if this acts as a blend control.
 
#105
Well...I just got this (for the second time...don't know why I sold it back then.)

Is it just me or does this look exceptionally clean for an early eighties MIJ CE-2?

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GMC said:
I was surprised that you didn't like the TCE Corona. I like to use a little reverb after mine. It's great at adding some shimmer on top of a dirt section. But i'm not using mine as a typical Chorus, mine is set quite lite and I'm not sure what I'd go for in your situation either.
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I want people to know it's on ;) I don't know...it was alright...I just wasn't feeling it as much as the MXR.
 
#111
Snaxster said:
On the serious tip: Though it is too large a box for Jimmy's current requirement, I recommend the Diamond Pedals HCH1 Halo Chorus. What a beautiful, all-analog sound. And it lets you tune the delay time with an internal control; for bassists, that means choosing the degree to which low frequencies are smeared/noticeably effected.
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Update, almost two years later:

Today I got a Malekko Omicron Chorus. This is the newer version that can be powered with up to 18 volts. Playing it at 18 volts with a passive Jazz Bass (Custom Shop, with vintage pickups), I loved the sound and feel of the Malekko Chorus:
  • it was just the flavor of vintage chorus I wanted: watery, icy, and slightly driven
  • it basically retained my instrument's voice
  • it had plenty of headroom, even with aggressive and/or chordal playing
  • and, though with slightly different spectral balance, its net volume engaged was a close match to its volume bypassed.
Anyone for whom headroom was a limitation in the 12 volt version of the Malekko Chorus, but who liked it otherwise, might give the newer, 18 volt version a try.

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#112
Snaxster, since you updated this thread 2 years later, so will I :D

The BCD has been on and off my board several times...not because it didn't sound great, but that old love/hate thing with chorus that I've got going on. Sometimes I'd pop it on and get a chub, sometimes I'd pop it on and feel like I was just fooling myself. But I found a fantastic use for it while rehearsing with my new instrumental guitar/bass/drums trio. We do a song where I get a synthy sound using my Boss OC-2 with slight OD at first, and then fuzz courtesy my awesome as all getout MXR Bass Distortion. But something was missing where it didn't quite capture the synthy sound I wanted. Tried the envelope filter in my Bass Synth Wah...nope, not it. Tried the BCD...BINGO! Made it sound like an old analog synth with two oscillators, one ever so slightly detuned. And then my oldies band started doing a couple mid-to-late 70's songs where a chorus was actually warranted. So now it's earned a permanent but very selectively used spot on my board.

Got zero use for the crossover, though. All it does is make the chorus disappear on the low notes. Flanger doesn't see much use, either. It's not a bad flanger but there are better, and I just don't have any use for flanger yet. Maybe one day...but I think if I had it to do over again, I'd probably save a few bucks and get the Analog Chorus. But maybe one day I'll write a song that justifies the flanger on the BCD, so I'm in no hurry to trade down :D
 
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#114
JimmyM said:
Snaxster, since you updated this thread 2 years later, so will I :D

The BCD has been on and off my board several times...not because it didn't sound great, but that old love/hate thing with chorus that I've got going on. Sometimes I'd pop it on and get a chub, sometimes I'd pop it on and feel like I was just fooling myself. But I found a fantastic use for it while rehearsing with my new instrumental guitar/bass/drums trio. We do a song where I get a synthy sound using my Boss OC-2 with slight OD at first, and then fuzz courtesy my awesome as all getout MXR Bass Distortion. But something was missing where it didn't quite capture the synthy sound I wanted. Tried the envelope filter in my Bass Synth Wah...nope, not it. Tried the BCD...BINGO! Made it sound like an old analog synth with two oscillators, one ever so slightly detuned. And then my oldies band started doing a couple mid-to-late 70's songs where a chorus was actually warranted. So now it's earned a permanent but very selectively used spot on my board.

Got zero use for the crossover, though. All it does is make the chorus disappear on the low notes. Flanger doesn't see much use, either. It's not a bad flanger but there are better, and I just don't have any use for flanger yet. Maybe one day...but I think if I had it to do over again, I'd probably save a few bucks and get the Analog Chorus. But maybe one day I'll write a song that justifies the flanger on the BCD, so I'm in no hurry to trade down :D
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SanDiegoHarry said:
I have given up on chorus - but I just bought a Lex Leslie pedal that give me really cool modulation, a basic chorus effect and that great "leslie" vibe. So I'm good now.
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Jimmy, Harry, right on! A bunch of old guys (me included) playing bass guitar with modulation processing. ;)

There's so much to say about the sonic genre. So many different applications and types of sound. As for chorus per se, or flanging pretending to be chorus, my current interest mostly recalls the 4AD stuff. For example, these two tracks from Cocteau Twins' "Heaven or Las Vegas":



 
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#116
Snaxster said:
Today I got a Malekko Omicron Chorus. This is the newer version that can be powered with up to 18 volts. Playing it at 18 volts with a passive Jazz Bass (Custom Shop, with vintage pickups), I loved the sound and feel of the Malekko Chorus
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Just now I replaced the footswitch in my friend's vintage 1981 MXR Stereo Chorus. While testing the repair, I realized that I could compare the old MXR Chorus to the Omicron Chorus. So I did... a lot.

In summary, the vintage MXR Stereo Chorus is what the Omicron Chorus wants to be when it grows up.

Though in itself the Omicron sounded credible as an 'old chips' type of chorus pedal, compared to the MXR it sounded small and narrow bandwidth. The MXR went deeper and higher. For bass guitar, the MXR's lower frequency response was the clincher, of course, but the addition of the icy highs made it sound very big.

I've hear it said that part of what makes the original Mu-Tron III sound so good is its preamp. Maybe the same is true of the original MXR Stereo Chorus.
 
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#120
One chorus that works good on bass and guitar is the MXR Stereo Chorus. I've had it for 9 years. It's 18v, and has 2 outputs. It has a lot of tone options and level mix options which make it great for a huge variety of sound. With guitar it can go from mild to wild. But with bass, it sounds better mild using one output. Using the bass in stereo can cause mud with loss of articulation and clarity when pushed to extremes.

Nevertheless, if I had to have one just for bass, it would be the MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe.
 

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