Two Chorus Pedals Go To War

GearGasms

GearGasms

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Two legendary chorus pedals, from two legendary pedal makers. The MXR Analog Chorus versus the Boss CH-1 Super Chorus. It's a fight to the finish, a battle royale in clean sounds and in high gain sounds. Which one sounds better? One chorus pedal stays, one chorus pedal goes!. Most importantly, which chorus pedal do YOU like better and why? Or you might not like chorus pedals at all. That's also cool.
So don't bore us and get to the chorus, I say.!!
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I had both. I had a slight preference for the mxr but both are great. I am now using boss md500 for it's midi. Love it also.
 
Briman24 said:
I had both. I had a slight preference for the mxr but both are great. I am now using boss md500 for it's midi. Love it also.
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I ended up keeping the Boss. There was something just a little more extra about the MXR that I couldn't gel with.
 
GearGasms said:
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This place needs more like you bud
 
GearGasms said:
I ended up keeping the Boss. There was something just a little more extra about the MXR that I couldn't gel with.
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From what i remember.....the mxr was harder to dial in than the boss but the mxr seemed to sound a tad thicker if that makes sense. But not a big difference.
My md500 has tons of variety of chorus. I think it has a ce1 and ce2 setting if i remember correctly. (Been a long time since i messed around with it). I usually set stuff up to my liking and never mess with it again lol
 
I really like the Boss chorus sound but dislike the buffers inside of their units. After my long hunt for a lush chorus, I landed on the Strymon Ola. I got one used for a killer price, so I made the plunge. No regrets! I find that certain chorus units shine when they are in front of the amp, and others when they are in the loop. If you are running these pedals into one another for testing, it would be more optimal not to, due to the buffer in the Boss, as mentioned above. I always shoot out pedals in a fully isolated environment, as some things interfere more than you would suspect.
 
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GuitarGuy08 said:
I really like the Boss chorus sound but dislike the buffers inside of their units. After my long hunt for a lush chorus, I landed on the Strymon Ola. I got one used for a killer price, so I made the plunge. No regrets! I find that certain chorus units shine when they are in front of the amp, and others when they are in the loop. If you are running these pedals into one another for testing, it would be more optimal not to, due to the buffer in the Boss, as mentioned above. I always shoto out pedals in a fully isolated environment, as some things interfere more than you would suspect.
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Yup. Need to isolate them for true comparison.
 
From my experience nothing beats a ce-2 japan. So lush and thick. I just need something more versatile. Maybe buying 3 different ce-2's would work lol. One for RR type of tone, one for clean like killer of giants and one for general chorus. That would cost about a grand though lol
 
+1 for nothing beats the ce-2. i was happy with the waza one too. I have a super chorus on my board rn, and the reason i like it, is because i can set it to be super subtle, turn the eq down so it doesn't put that glass sheen on my tone, and it just adds girth for solos
 
OUTLAW1969 said:
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I hate to say this, but I haven't found a chorus pedal that Ive liked the sound of as much as I liked the chorus sound from one of the 90's era SS Princeton Reverb combo amps.
Actually just sold my '83 CE-2.

Oh, I know :loco:

My father still asks me if my mother had any kids that lived...
 
Had both, sold both. The CH-1 does shine when you use it in stereo.
The MXR sounds very nice, albeit a bit dark, but it's its bypass that I hate. Total tone sucker. It became painfully obvious in the footswitchable fx Loop of my EVH 5150 III 50W.
My bench mark are my two black label MIJ CE-2's, and the little Mooer Ensemble King comes very close to that with an added level control (that can tame the inherent mid&volume boost).
Most choruses drop the ball IMO when used with high gain. A few recent keepers were the Ibanez Mini Chorus (more clear and open), Tone City Angel Wing (juicy and musical) and a vintage TC SCF, which probably is the one that can be the most subtle tone enhancer of the bunch.
I will say -probably this is not the right forum for it 😅🤘-, if you mostly use it for clean tones, the Providence Anadime 3-knob is one of the best.
To me it was just a bit lacklustre with gain.
 
Speeddemon said:
Had both, sold both. The CH-1 does shine when you use it in stereo.
The MXR sounds very nice, albeit a bit dark, but it's its bypass that I hate. Total tone sucker. It became painfully obvious in the footswitchable fx Loop of my EVH 5150 III 50W.
My bench mark are my two black label MIJ CE-2's, and the little Mooer Ensemble King comes very close to that with an added level control (that can tame the inherent mid&volume boost).
Most choruses drop the ball IMO when used with high gain. A few recent keepers were the Ibanez Mini Chorus (more clear and open), Tone City Angel Wing (juicy and musical) and a vintage TC SCF, which probably is the one that can be the most subtle tone enhancer of the bunch.
I will say -probably this is not the right forum for it 😅🤘-, if you mostly use it for clean tones, the Providence Anadime 3-knob is one of the best.
To me it was just a bit lacklustre with gain.
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I was using my CE-2 with a JTM45 at 7 on volume.
To me, only sounded good when I rolled back guitar volume cleaning up.
With gain it just didn't sit right with me and sounded mechanical or robotic, sorry but not sure of another way of describing...
 
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