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Which chorus? Boss CE-5, CEB-3, Digitech CF-7 or Hardwire CR-7

Which chorus? Boss CE-5, CEB-3, Digitech CF-7 or Hardwire CR-7?

  • Boss CE-5

    Votes: 13 36.1%
  • Boss CEB-3

    Votes: 9 25.0%
  • Digitech Chorus Factory CF-7

    Votes: 3 8.3%
  • Hardwire CR-7

    Votes: 11 30.6%

  • Total voters
    36
  • Poll closed .
Thanks again for the replies and suggestions. I had an opportunity to try the Digitech CF-7 Chorus Factory the other day-after discovering that it has an emulation of the Boss CE-5 (which has done very well in the poll, even though it was originally intended as a gu*tar pedal!).

The music shop in question wasn't equipped with particularly good instruments or amplification, but I could at least hear that the pedal was pretty versatile. The only problem was I perceived a small delay between switching the pedal on and off. It wasn't a very long delay, but the drop-out of volume was enough to bug me. I have a Digitech Bass Synth Wah pedal and have had many other of their X-Series pedals and none have ever had this strange delay.....

Maybe it was just a duff pedal or because it was running from battery power....?

Anyway, I'm still very undecided! Many of the replies suggest pedals larger than the standard Boss/Digitech dimensions -so unfortunately they won't work for me. Also, with regards to budget, I'm prepared to spend a reasonable sum but not like TC Electronics or AnalogMan prices....(the latter wouldn't have enough controls anyway-see my 1st post regarding why I didn't like my EBS UniChorus).

Thanks as ever guys!
 
The Digitech CF7 is probably a good one to get if you are not sure what chorus you want.

The demos sound pretty good on their site here but they do, to my ear sound like an imitation of the original pedals I have (CE-5 and Small Clone) That said a good and useable imitation.

You could do a lot worse than get one of these. After a few months you could know what sound you really like and get the original pedal.