CHORUS PEDALS

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A quintessential sound of the 80s and early 90s, chorus is what gave the jangly guitars of bands like The Police, The Smiths and The Pretenders their distinct shimmer. However the chorus effect has been used by many artists across multiple genres such as grunge (Nirvana!) and electronic music (Daft Punk!) It continues to be utilised prolifically by contemporary musicians, especially as 90s nostalgia reaches peak saturation!

Chorus pedals are designed to add depth and thickeness to your sound. They expand your guitar signal to create a chorus, the sound of multiple instruments playing together. The natural signal is divided into multiple voices. It modulates the pitch and tone, to slightly delay the voices from the original.

Strymon Ola dBucket Chorus

The way a chorus pedal functions is very similar to a flanger pedal. The main difference is in the timing of the delay between the clean and modulating signals.

Catalinbread Callisto MKII Chorus

Maestro Comet Chorus

A standard chorus pedal will include a depth and a rate knob. The depth setting will allow you to control the intensity of the effect (ie. how far the modulation of the sound deviates from the original pitch), and the rate setting will control the speed of the oscillations.

JHS Pedals Unicorn V2

EarthQuaker Devices Sea Machine

Jim Dunlop Chorus

Chorus stompboxes and effects multiprocessors with chorus settings alter the original signal coming in from your guitar, bass, or other instrument by adding a second sound with a slight delay and subtle pitch differences. The effect is similar to the ringing, chiming sounds that 12-string guitars produce naturally due to their paired strings that differ slightly in pitch and time. On electric instruments such as guitars, chorus sounds like the same signal running through two amps with a very slight delay between them and an ever so subtle pitch difference. In fact, Pat Metheny creates his trademark chorus sound this way, using no actual chorus effect at all.

Walrus Audio Julia V2 Analog Chorus

Providence Anadime Chorus

New Wave Analog Stereo Chorus

Chorus effects can adjust sounds through delaying and retuning them. It is used to make sounds seem thicker, by widening it, and adding pitch modulation. Chorus pedals are a great way to create full-sounding clean tones.

Many acoustic guitar amps include a clean-sounding chorus effect adding depth and character to the amplified signal. Chorus pedals can be very helpful in fattening up the tone of acoustic-electric guitars whose piezo pickups tend to sound a little thin.

Caline G Series Chorus

Warped Dimension

The most important thing ever when using effects and devices is to consider where to place it in your signal chain, so that everything will work efficiently just the way you want it to be. And of course, you need to consider whether the position of the pedal will destroy or affect the whole signal chain or how the sounds go through the inputs and outputs.

Chorus is a modulation effect, which means it should be placed somewhere at the end of your signal chain. It should be after compression, distortion, and before the reverb pedal.

Keeley Dyno My Roto Chorus

PENCHEN D-3 Super Chorus

If you consider building a signal chain with many different pedals, then maybe there’s one advantage that comes with adding the chorus pedal on the list. Since it has a mild buffer used to boost the signal and sound of your guitar, when the sound finally reaches the amplifier after going through the whole chain, to avoid creating a sudden drop in the volume, this “mild buffer” makes that disappear.

Basic controls of Chorus Pedals

Most chorus pedals are designed with basic control functions. These are usually rate, depth and mix. Some versions include a delay control, to add more depth to your sound.

Ampeg Liquifier Analog Chorus

Death by Audio Space Bender Chorus

The rate control allows you to adjust the speed of the modulation effect.This is created through a connection with a low-frequency oscillator (LFO). The chorus pedal adjusts the rate or speed of the LFO. With a high rate, the modulation effect will have the vibe of vibrato,with increased speed. A low rate gives a gradual modulation effect by introducing a further length of time, or delay, into the repetition, to make it sound slower.

The depth controls the amount of pitch-shifting by adjusting the level of the chorus sound. The delay time and modulation effects are also controlled by depth.

Wave Machine Chorus

Gemini Chorus

The mix knob determines the ratio of how the effect levels blend into each other. It lets you adjust your sounds before sending them to the outputs. It basically functions like a mixer, giving you options to make many varieties of sounds.

Some chorus pedals have a delay and a shape control. Delay controls the period delay between the unaffected signal and the doubled signal. The longer the amount of time is for delays, the wider the distance between the dry and wet signals will be.
Shape controls the different kinds of waves and effects generated by the LFO. The two common types of LFO’s are sine (soft, gentle) and triangular waves (sharper).

Nano Clone Chorus

Chorus pedals duplicate your sound as it goes through the input. It can make a single instrument sound like two instruments being played simultaneously. They add a rich, lush, shimmering quality to your sound.Chorus pedals allow you to explore your sound to its fullest potential.

Strymon Ola dBucket Chorus

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Caroline Guitar Somersault Chorus

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COOLMUSIC C-CH01 Versatile Chorus

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With LEVEL, DEPTH and RATE knobs to control the tone, and add LOW and HIGH knobs to adjust to boost of the frequeny signals.

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