What is a Chorus pedal?

It basically replicates your sound many times, but some of the added parts will be very slightly out of time or out of tune to give the effect of several people playing at once, hence the name "chorus."

 

I would say it gives the impression of replicating your sound. The aim of a chorus pedal is to trick your ears into thinking there's several instruments playing in unison. It is in fact a delay circuit where the very short (average) delay time is modulated by a low frequency oscillator.

 

Right, but there's also pitch modulation.

 

The pitch modulation is achieved by oscillating the delay time. Time = frequency = pitch. Also, analog choruses typically have only one delay line (replicating the sound once, not many times), but digital choruses (chorii?) sometimes use different methods, sometimes including multiple delay lines.

 

Pitch mod is produced by modulating the delay time. Think about what happens when you twiddle the delay time knob on an old analogue delay pedal.

 

Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
Male announcer: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading. Now, there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading.
Female announcer: Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for unloading.

 

Oh dear... I hope you're not as tragic as an old work colleague who genuinely felt that "Kentucky Fried Movie" was the best film ever!

 

a chorus pedal is one that when turned on (effect), a chorus of 300 people appear behind you and harmonize with your bass notes.

a beautiful thing really. now if only i could keep that chorus fed all the time...

 

Think "Come As You Are" by Nirvana.

 

Well..............it was a pretty funny movie.

 

Think of the BASS sound of "Trees" by Rush.

 

I love my Clone Theory pedal... no other chorus pedal I've tried has come close to the lush joy of that pedal....

 

Actually, I think that's a flanger. Chorii (I'm going to use that from now on, thanks Bongo) produce a sometimes similar sounding, but distinctly different effect. Typically the delay time in a flanger is shorter with more feedback.

 

"Come as You are" is most definatly a chorus. Kurt Cobain is what you're hearing, he used an Electro Harmonix Small Clone chorus for that sound, I'm pretty sure the bass is just clean. Novoselic used a Gibson bass, which, with Gibson, was thick enough with those duel humbuckers to make the sound you hear. God Bless

 

OK time to be Mr. Professor here. Actually, it would be chori. You only get the double i in words that already have an i in them, like radius -> radii. It was a chorus, Butch Vig talked about it in an interview in some damn magazine.

 

Man that would be such a beautiful effect, you could have everyone at different octaves, oh such beauty.....

Thank you for making my day

 

In unison only, though.

 

Technically, if anyone if harmonising, it is not unison.

 

Was Nevermind before Cobain started using the Poly-Chorus? I guess I concede. I listened to it again and I doubted it was flanger for the first time.