Chorus Recommendations

[AxetoGrind]

The Ibanez CS9 is an excellent chorus, imco, they will get you closer to the 'come as you are' tone than the EH Small Clone reissue,

it's a dead ringer for that sweet  'Angry Chair' tone too,

on a tech note the Electroharmonix pedal is considerably easier to make true bypass than the Ibanez, not impossible tho' and for me, the tone is superior with a CS9

[Ratrod]

The Ibanez CS9 is an excellent chorus, imco, they will get you closer to the 'come as you are' tone than the EH Small Clone reissue,

it's a dead ringer for that sweet  'Angry Chair' tone too,

on a tech note the Electroharmonix pedal is considerably easier to make true bypass than the Ibanez, not impossible tho' and for me, the tone is superior with a CS9

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[Floyd Pepper]

Anyone ever tried an Electro Harmonix Q-Tron Envelope Filter?  Are they any good?

[Ratrod]

I've heard some clips on www.musictoyz.com I believe. very whacky thing. Auto wha's and auws, laser fights and what not and an integrated hot tubes pedal.

[Guitarzan]

Has anyone tried the Visual Sound Liquid chorus and echo? I have heard great things about them and am curious. I really do like the DOD tho.

[Johnny Mac]

who nicked the riff from Killing Joke's "Nighttime"

Its from Killing Joke's track Eighties although come as you are is slowed down.

With EH pedals don't be tempted to go for the Russian made ones as they are so badly made. EH have never really had great quality control, but the Russian made pedals push it into a new realm of poorness.  I've got the black Russian Big Muff and the components aren't good - one of the jacks cracked after being used twice.  The old green Sovtek pedals were good though - David Gilmour still uses one.

I would go for the EH pedal over the Boss pedal, even if EH pedals can be a little noisy at times. It's true bypass rather than buffered in the case of the Boss pedal so the signal won't sound dull when its off.

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  at your sig!!!

[tewboss]

from todays holy moly mailout :)

[Floyd Pepper]

Thanks for the advice.  I'm now the proud owner (until Christmas when my son gets it) of an EH Small Clone.  And very nice it is too.

I tried an EH Holy Grail reverb in Guitar Guitar on Saturday.  To cut a short story even shorter.  I got one of them too.  It sounds more like a spring reverb than some of the spring reverbs I've used.

[tewboss]

The Small Clone is a very nice sound.  I bet it won't be long before you are opening the box then using it before Christmas!  Oh if you want a nice phaser try the Small Stone - I love mine, as it sounds awesome clean but even better with high gain sounds.  I've not heard the Holy Grail, but I've got one of the Holier Grails - the Holiest Grail has far too many options but is supposed to be damn good.

[indysmith]

Whoo i knew there was other EHX fans out there somewhere! I'd love to A/B/C the holy holier and holiest grails...

[Skybone]

I was put off the Holy Grail's as I kept hearing about them being noisy. That and I'd need another 3.5mm jack for my pedal power supply (already sacrificed 3 leads to the 3.5mm pedal brigade!).

I've just got one of those Marshall Reflectors to add some reverb to my sound (another reverb-less 4104 user don't forget), and it's pretty good. Some of the settings are a bit OTT, but it does give a nice subtle reverb without noise. And best of all...it's cheap! ;)

[indysmith]

Marshall reflectors?? REVERB ON THE 4104!? i'm excited - please explain to me what a reflector is?
*EDIT* i see, seems to be a new addition to the marshall pedal range! how do yu use that with the jcm800 (that doesnt have an effects loop)???

[Skybone]

Apologies, assumed you knew about the new Marshall pedals, the other new ones are an Echo and a Digital Delay.

I've dropped it on the end of my pedal chain, using the Spring setting, low rev time & damping. Like I said, it can be set to give a real OTT reverb, such as a cavernous hall and the like, but for subtle, everything is set low (except the vol/level o' course). I did notice it clashing a bit with my Small Clone when I used that, but that'll just need tweaking (and I don't use the SC that much). Might play around with the placement of the pedal, just thought it'd be better at the end of the chain than anywhere else for now.

I bought a Digi Delay recently to try and "widen" my sound out a bit, but that just sounded too "digital" through the 4104 (well, just too "digital" full stop!), and I was looking at the Holy Grail instead when I noticed these mentioned in Guitarist a while back. Another EHX pedal was not an option as my PSU has 5 9v out's, and I've "adapted" 3 of the power leads to the 3.5mm mini jack connector that EHX use (Small Clone / Small Stone / Vintage RAT), and I had to buy one of those 5 connector leads to get some more "standard" connectors.

It's given the sound a bit more depth which is what I was after.

[t3h haze]

Whoo i knew there was other EHX fans out there somewhere! I'd love to A/B/C the holy holier and holiest grails...

I'm another fan of EHX, have a Big Muff and 2 Small Stones :D
I'd love to hear an original 70's Big Muff though, my band couldn't live without our Muff's :shock:

As for chorus', I have a Boss CE-2, I picked it up for £30, I like it, but don't use it often, not really a fan of chorus in general, but I like it for subtle flanging and very light chorus.

[Kilby]

Remember that much of the Police / Andy Summers chorus sounds have now been attributed to the EH Electronic Mistress flanger.

I'm not a great fan of chorus (the amount of chorus used in 80s music can only be described as excessive), but I love a nice big phaser.

Personally the only current (read affordable to normal people) phaser is the EH one.

Rob...