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brianbrian · Post by **brianbrian** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:08 am

CE-1 or Analog Man chorus.

brianbrian · Post by **brianbrian** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:09 am

Dimension C too (essentially the Dimension D in pedal form).

fritzman · Post by **fritzman** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:33 am

Ibanez CH9! Smoooooooooooooth ... :harp:

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:47 am

It's an effect for 80s wankers. Unless you go the whole hog and go for 70's style wibble effect. Apart from that chorus is f**king nasty on guitar, lose it.

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:52 am

Favorite chorus pedal? The Roto-Vibe! It's a Dunlop rotary speaker simulator, a novelty pedal, but it happens to have a setting that's a great chorus.

Har · Post by **Har** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:52 am

ew wrote:
The good old Digitech Whammy pedal.
I've always preferred a detune to a chorus- much better to my ears.
ew

I've been using one of these recently too and agree; I also prefer the sound of detuning versus cyclic chorusing most of the time as well.

For when I DO want cyclic/rotating...I use a H&K Rotosphere II tube-driven Leslie simulator, which I also recently got and am madly in love with

....and to get really big and wide, running the Whammy Pedal's detuning into the Rotosphere can sound fantasic!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:06 am

funny cause (now don't flame me, just my opinion) if there is one effect I honestly hate and consider cheesy it would be the whammy pedal

Har · Post by **Har** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:09 am

Hink wrote:funny cause (now don't flame me, just my opinion) if there is one effect I honestly hate and consider cheesy it would be the whammy pedal

Well, like anything: it depends on what you do with it.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:24 am

Har wrote:
Hink wrote:funny cause (now don't flame me, just my opinion) if there is one effect I honestly hate and consider cheesy it would be the whammy pedal
Well, like anything: it depends on what you do with it.

nah it's all unfounded pure bias...

My lame ass piece of shit half brother (the anti-hink) loves em...fwiw he loves his Les Pauls too...many will testify I despise Les Pauls...

but I still have this image of him when the first ones came out, he had a video tape of a party his band played...he did a solo (tuned in open G) he'd play a open G major chord and raise his guitar up to match the pitch change...it was so lame...what was sadder some people were actually impressed...

Har · Post by **Har** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:47 am

Hink wrote:
Har wrote:
Hink wrote:funny cause (now don't flame me, just my opinion) if there is one effect I honestly hate and consider cheesy it would be the whammy pedal
Well, like anything: it depends on what you do with it.
nah it's all unfounded pure bias... My lame ass piece of shit half brother (the anti-hink) loves em...fwiw he loves his Les Pauls too...many will testify I despise Les Pauls...

but I still have this image of him when the first ones came out, he had a video tape of a party his band played...he did a solo (tuned in open G) he'd play a open G major chord and raise his guitar up to match the pitch change...it was so lame...what was sadder some people were actually impressed...

Ouch...OK, yeah, I'm with you on that: that's definitely pretty lame.

...especially when you consider that the Whammy Pedal doesn't seem to like chords very much in terms of clean pitch-shifting in the first place! (you often get that lovely gurgling load o' metallic audio artifacts if you try to bend more than one or maybe two notes played simultaniously

) I can just imagine how painful that must've sounded...

But on the other hand (and in keeping with the thread's chorus-effect subject), the Whammy's Detune function that ew mentioned is a bit of a different beast than the actual Whammy/interval-bending functionality: it allows for a small degree of detuning for a shimmering "wide sounding" effect (ala the old SPX90's Detune feature that was all the rage of us semi-prog-guitarists back in the 80's

) without the rotating/cyclic sound that traditional choruses have; with the Whammy's pedal only controlling the effect's depth instead of dive-bombing up or down...one of the Whammy's more subtle features, and can be quite pleasant-sounding when used tastefully IMHO

(and potentially interesting when used not-so-tastefully, I guess

).

ew · Post by ew » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:59 am

Yeah, the pedal's detuning in cents in detune mode. I like it because you can ride the pedal and bring in as much or as little as you want.

The harmony modes are cheezy, to say the least. The only use I ever found for that was to stick it in front of a fuzz for an Octavia- type effect.

BTW, the emulation in Guitar Rig is spot on with the original version- it's that hair flat in all the harmony modes

ew

Har · Post by **Har** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:10 am

Actually, this week I got a gigantic thick Steve Hackett-ish, almost guitar-synth-ish tone by using the Whammy set to an octave interval, then into my SansAmp GT2 and then finally into the Rotosphere.

Heh, ironically sometimes I find the Whammy most useful for non-whammy effects...

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:21 am

DT - spot on! No good 80's song would be without it.

Max el Belga · Post by **Max el Belga** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:45 am

The best one without any doubt was an Ibanez (kind a blue), with 2 9V batteries and "stereo" output.

arke · Post by **arke** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:01 am

multree wrote:

I used to have that exact one -- it really is nice. Sounds awesome.

Guitar players, please list your fave chorus pedal!