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your top five choruses:

#21
okabass said:
HI

tc-electronics chorus-pitch modulator-flanger. IMHO the best choruspedal :D .EBS did not work for me at all.:scowl:
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I found i needed to tweak the internal effect mix in my EBS to get its best sound, its set on 50%, i put it to around 25-30% and it works great now.

I couldn't find a tc-electronics one here in australia, they are prob around somewhere so i went with EBS
 
#22
I've got an older Boss CE-2B which is not too bad. It sounds warm and not too over-the-top.

I also have a DigiTech Bass Multi Chorus. I bought it relatively recently and haven't used it that much, but I find that it can get some more extreme chorusing effects and it has more depth. It is true though, a battery will only last a couple of hours. There is no point in having the capability of running it off a battery if it only lasts that long. Poor design. Other than that, it sounds pretty good.
 
#27
You can order a Clone Chorus with a blend knob. I have the small one with the deep and blend knob options.

jetpackbassist said:
you are all amazing.

i'm mostly interested in choruses with a mix or blend option.... but the analogman deep clones sound cool....

here's a question: how easy is it to add a blend knob to one of my pedals? for you modders...
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#28
benevan said:
DLS UltraChorus. The only chorus you will ever need.
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Benevan's choice is a good one, as well as what I'd recommend-a TC Electronics multi-chorus (I think that's what it's called). Anyway, I toured with BX3 back in April (Stu Hamm, Billy Sheehan, and Jeff Berlin), and Jeff had this chorus pedal, in black & purple metal casing. It sounded unreal, as a lot of people just hearing him or seeing him from far away, thought he had a fretless, but it was his fretted Dean. I heard a lot of people talk about this pedal before, and then finally heard it in action-WOW. I'm sure it has a blend/mix knob-looked pretty versatile. But, it's pricey-I think around $250 bucks.
 
#29
1. boss ce-2b
2. boss bf-2b (yes, i know it´s a flanger but with manual=max and regen=min you get some wonderful chorus sounds)
3. t.c. chorus/flanger/p.m.
4. small clone

i end the list there, cause the rest i don´t like very much (and those are the four i own :D ). the ebs i found was distorting at high input levels (active bass/really digging in). all that digital stuff (like digitech), not in MY signal path. gonna build myself a nice boss dimension c with manual controls instead of set switches soon, we´ll see how that one sounds.

but the ce-2b is really the chorus sound i love. i built mine with a switch to choose between the bass version and the sound of the legendary blue ce-2. (i have an original, too, of the brown one).
the t.c. is sitting on the shelf for almost one year and just gets taken out for comparisons from time to time, then goes back to its place to sit on its laurels. :)

cheers,
lowstar

p.s. ce-2b has a mix option too, it´s called e.level. you have to get it off ebay or somewhere else used, don´t mix it up with the :spit: ce-3b.
 
#31
I just bought 4 boss pedals from some guy who was selling all 4 for one price. I thought that I'll keep TU-2 and resell the rest. But decided to try CE-5 guitar chorus before selling it. I personaly don't like boss effects, I had CEB-3 and I didn't liked it, but this CE-5 sounds pretty nice, very subtle and don't cut bass at all. Maybe it's not the best chorus out there, but for someone who is looking for cheap subtle chorus CE-5 is a good option.
 
#32
If your looking a blend option The Digitech multi voice chorus let's you blend the voices (hence multi-voice chorus) .You can get anywhere from 1 to 16 voices. I've had it for a few yeras and I still love it. But like KarateKid25 said it eats batteries ,all digitech pedals do, so get a power supply if you buy it.
 
#33
Hamstir said:
If your looking a blend option The Digitech multi voice chorus let's you blend the voices (hence multi-voice chorus) .You can get anywhere from 1 to 16 voices. I've had it for a few yeras and I still love it. But like KarateKid25 said it eats batteries ,all digitech pedals do, so get a power supply if you buy it.
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Somewhere along the line, Digitech changed the design of the Bass Multi-Chorus. I had an older one that I really liked but I sold it in hope of finding something better. Last month, I decided to give it another shot so I bought a new one. When I set it up with my rig, I got a much colder and harsher effect than I remembered and the input clipped like mad in the effects loop of my amp. That never happened with the older one. Also, I had opened up the first one I had and found that the pot shafts were nutted to the casing and the PCB was totally removable. On the newer ones, the pot shafts are plastic and extend from the PCB through the casing. There is only a little plastic ring that holds them in place. The PCB is also firmly attached to the bottom plate of the box so the solder points are inaccessable. I would recommend the older version as it is a really lush and full sounding chorus with lots of versatility but the new ones absolutely suck, IMO.
 
#35
bass-shy said:
Somewhere along the line, Digitech changed the design of the Bass Multi-Chorus. I had an older one that I really liked but I sold it in hope of finding something better. Last month, I decided to give it another shot so I bought a new one. When I set it up with my rig, I got a much colder and harsher effect than I remembered and the input clipped like mad in the effects loop of my amp. That never happened with the older one. Also, I had opened up the first one I had and found that the pot shafts were nutted to the casing and the PCB was totally removable. On the newer ones, the pot shafts are plastic and extend from the PCB through the casing. There is only a little plastic ring that holds them in place. The PCB is also firmly attached to the bottom plate of the box so the solder points are inaccessable. I would recommend the older version as it is a really lush and full sounding chorus with lots of versatility but the new ones absolutely suck, IMO.
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Thats pretty interesting... Maybe I have a 'new' one? Mine was bought recently after playing a friends. I liked his one, but after getting mine home, I decided it wasn't the greatest. I might ask him if i can pull his apart along with mine and see if they are different internally.
 
#36
bongomania said:
The tricky part is finding a spot on the chassis where you can drill a hole, and where the physical bulk of the pot can fit inside without interfering with the other guts.
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so, it's doable.... good. there's a couple pedals i have that i think would benefit from a blend knob. the big muff, for example. and any choruses. is it just a regular pot, and you route it in such a way that it can blend the two incoming signals? thanks, by the way.

i'm seriously considering the analogman clones now... ideally with a deep switch and blend knob. and also a peavey... i'm intrugued by it. TB kicks butt. please continue with the suggestions!

oh, and does the tc electronic have a blend?

rock on..... :bassist:
 
#40
it´s not just a matter of including the pot and blending the signals, i´m afraid. you will need at least one buffer to prevent feedback.
here are some examples, courtesy to sean mclennan:
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and a more complicated , better one:
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if you go to diystompboxforum.com and do a search, you will come up with some solutions, and actually even some reports where people have included a blend option into a big muff, for instance. (his nick was basstyra)

cheers,
lowstar
 

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