Good Chorus

[guitartango]

Hi Guys

I am looking for a good chorus, any ideas ?

[Twinfan]

Tonerider for £50 is a good deal!

[Dmoney]

i use a jam waterfall

[dave_mc]

Tonerider for £50 is a good deal!

+1, I paid £67 I think :( (though I did pick up the british distortion for £50, hasn't arrived yet, though)...

[Antag]

Of the pedals I've had/have, the MXR M134 is the best IMHO.  Warm & lush sounding, with flexible controls that actually do something.

I've also had/used (in rough order of preference) Boss CE-2, Boss DC-2, Boss CE-3, Rocktron Tsunami, Boss CE-5, Rocktron Deep Blue, Boss CH-1 - all of them have a clean nice sound (which is mostly what I use a chorus for)

Not got to many of the "boutique" pedals (since I got the M134 I haven't really looked elsewhere) but the one pedal I'd avoid is the Voodoo Labs Analog Chorus - over-rated pile of junk that adds a nasty midrange "spike" to the sound.  I can just about live with it on the clean channel/neck pickup but borderline unuseable with the bridge pickup or on overdriven sounds.  Recently been discontinued, but don't rush to snap up one of the last ones...

[tekbow]

i use a jam waterfall

+1

dont own one, but i have played a JAM retrovibe, and if the chorus on the waterfall was even half as good as the rerovibe then you be on to a winner.

[Dmoney]

expensive though. it also does vibrato but im not that into that effect.
I just thought, i need to build a pedal board desperately.

[hunter]

If money isn't the issue, try the retro sonic chorus!

[guitartango]

Thanks for the info guys, what's the Tonerider like?

[dave_mc]

nice :lol:

ive heard twinfan and martin say it's based on a boss ce2, i think, but i haven't tried the ce2 myself (and I also don't want to put words in their mouths in case I'm not remembering correctly).

[guitartango]

@£50 It might be worth buying, anyone used a Biyang Chorus pedal?

[Supernaught]

I really love my EH Small Clone.   With one knob it can produce a lot of different tones.    Really natural sounding too IMHO.

[LazyNinja]

Boss CE2! Love mine; so simple and sounds great. Mine is a made in Taiwan model but still sounds good to me!

[dave_mc]

@£50 It might be worth buying, anyone used a Biyang Chorus pedal?

no, but i have a couple of their other pedals- the od8 overdrive, the phaser and the fuzz. They're very nice (similarly nice in tone to the toneriders, and a bit more versatile with the mode switches), but the reliability has been a bit dodgy, in my experience anyway (maybe I got unlucky). Out of the 3 pedals I had, the fuzz died, and the phaser was a bit dodgy for a while, but seems to have fixed itself somehow. I would add that advantage guitar (the shop selling them on ebay) replaced the fuzz no questions asked (I never got round to sending back the phaser, as I said, it fixed itself), but 2 out of 3 isn't a great breakdown rate, especially when it was only home use... the toneriders feel a bit sturdier, too (but that might be psychological on my part).

Very good when they work, would be my assessment of them. I'd also add that some of their pedals which claim to be analogue might not be- I've seen posts online claiming that the analogue delay had some digital chips, so that would also be a black mark in my book.