Blown away by the Eventide Tricerachorus pedal

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I'm a big fan of chorus.

Swapped out my MD-500 for this guy. The MD-500 is good... but I was basically just using it for stereo detune. The detune algorithm is in mono, so you can't pair it with another effect and have both in stereo (I use two patches simultaneously, to get the left and right separation). Pair that with the typical "more hassle than it's worth" menu diving you get from a multi-fx and my eye started to wander.

What caught my eye with the Tricerachorus is the amount of flexibility it has. The Chorus and Chorale modes are two different flavors (Chorale adds two fixed rate LFOs into the mix, whereas Chorus has the three voices controlled by one LFO), and just by turning off two of the voices it cops the CE-1 sound very nicely as well. The delay time is controllable so it can work as a flanger and short slapback in addition to chorus. It has stereo detune built in as an additional effect (a simpler version than the Micro Pitch delay, but IMO much more user friendly), and with the pitch knob centered it provides a wide stereo spread without any obvious pitch-shifting, which I love for when I want to sound dry but not feel dry. The swirl is another crazy feature, a stereo phaser at the end of the chain that so far I've found to be excellent at low rates for copping a Symphonic-style sound.

It's a pedal that can create any kind of chorus you could want without ever having to open a fucking menu. I think that's some kind of miracle.

Anyone else use this? I don't see it on people's boards very often.
 
I think these pedals look really cool, I am just picky about using pedals with an analog dry-through, and Eventide dont use that.
 
Will def check this out. I like the CE-2W because two knobs / no menus / no screens.
 
I was actually looking at these for a while, when I was shopping for a new chorus pedal a while back.

I ended up finding a great deal on a CE2-W, that I've been quite happy with, but the Tricerachorus has still been in the back of my mind.
 
reprovisional said:
Will def check this out. I like the CE-2W because two knobs / no menus / no screens.
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The CE-2w is one I considered as well. I went with the Tricerachorus because I wanted a true stereo chorus, and the CE-2 only does wet/dry.

I'm not into the menus/screens thing either. I have a couple pedals where it's a necessary evil, but being able to have a chorus pedal with this much control without having to scroll through a tiny screen really is worth jumping from the MD-500 for me.
 
GreatRedDragon said:
Im not into the menus/screens thing either. I have a couple pedals where it's a necessary evil, but being able to have a chorus pedal with this much control without having to scroll through a tiny screen really is worth jumping from the MD-500 for me.
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New philosophy or always that way for you?

E.g., in delay world, I've got a Strymon Timeline, which is obviously super powerful and I love it when I've got four hours at a time to get lost in params but find I just don't need that level of sophistication.
 
reprovisional said:
New philosophy or always that way for you?

E.g., in delay world, I've got a Strymon Timeline, which is obviously super powerful and I love it when I've got four hours at a time to get lost in params but find I just don't need that level of sophistication.
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It definitely wasn't always that way. I played nothing but modelers for 17 years, and I really enjoyed getting crazy on the software stuff dialing things in.

Moving to a tube amp with a pedalboard, I don't mind tweaking parameters but doing it hunched over a microscopic screen is a pain in the ass, and I'm finding more and more that with most effects I'm just looking for the sweet spot anyway. My Phase 90 is always at 9 o'clock, my Dyna Comp is at 2 and 10, my SD-1 is always high level low drive, etc.

With pitch detune, I initially got the Eventide Micropitch Delay. Great sounding pedal, but it was 12 knobs for something I only needed two for (pitch and mix). So I dumped it for a Boss PS-6, which had exactly that. Then, wanting MIDI control and a wider range of modulation, I bought an MD-500. But configuring that was so annoying, and most of the horsepower was things I'd never touch anyway. So now I'm back with Eventide at the Tricerachorus for my detune, because it has the exact same simple controls (for detune) as the PS-6.

I guess what I like about the Tricerachorus is that while it does have 12 controls, it's all very intuitive. It is itself in that sweet spot, more powerful than a simple two knob pedal but stops short right before the point where it would need a screen.

My RV-500 and SDE-3000D are menu divers, but I find they're more manageable. I used the RV-500's editor to recreated all of the SRV-2000's stock presets, so I just use those as a set-and-forget. The SDE-3000D does have a more difficult to read interface, but most of its controls are on the front panel anyway.
 
I've never even heard of it


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The one lame thing about this pedal isn't even the pedal, it's the software.

The Eventide software is for the most part pretty good by the standard of other pedal editors I've used (Boss I've had struggles with, and UA? Let's not go there). But there's one really annoying part, and it's fucking pointless.

When you're dialing in your presets, you can't see the actual value of what you're tweaking. You can only see the MIDI CC. And because the controls are (mostly) non-linear, you can't really reverse engineer the true values from the CC number. Eventide's stated reason for this? This line of pedals are designed to be more of a WYSIWYG deal, so they want players to find their sounds by ear. To me, it seems more like a feature being held back to incentivize the H9 (the same way Gibson will purposefully make their USA guitars uglier than the CS models).

Thankfully in my case, the only "specific" values I'm looking for are the +/-9 cents pitch detune. There's a preset buried in the editor called "Yello Fin," which is pure detune. That preset also exists in the H9, and the editor for the H9 shows that the pitch values are +/- 9 cents. So if anyone wants the EVH setting, Yello Fin is the one.
 
Shask said:
I think these pedals look really cool, I am just picky about using pedals with an analog dry-through, and Eventide dont use that.
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Same, eventide has some great sounding stuff, but I want the option to run W/D or W/D/W without phase problems, so eventide is a no go for me.

The Tricerachorus and a couple of their other pedals i've heard have been great sounding though.
 
DanTravis62 said:
Same, eventide has some great sounding stuff, but I want the option to run W/D or W/D/W without phase problems, so eventide is a no go for me.

The Tricerachorus and a couple of their other pedals i've heard have been great sounding though.
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I figure if I can notice the dynamics and punch differences by running through something with top of the line converters like Fractal, a $400 pedal wont fare any better.

I would run it through a parallel mixer, but that gets complicated.
 
Shask said:
I figure if I can notice the dynamics and punch differences by running through something with top of the line converters like Fractal, a $400 pedal wont fare any better.

I would run it through a parallel mixer, but that gets complicated.
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yeah that's just too complicated for me, I understand if others want to mess around with the mixer rack stuff.
 
DanTravis62 said:
yeah that's just too complicated for me, I understand if others want to mess around with the mixer rack stuff.
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That is what I use at home. I have a rack mixer I use with all my tube amps, with TC Electronics, Lexicon, and Fractal rack units in parallel loops. I have tried to simplify it, but I dont like how running right through the digital units effect the dynamics. I would LOVE to not have the curse of noticing, lol. It would make it much more simple. I mostly use Delay, Reverb, Chorus, and Pitch Detune.

For pedals, I always look for analog dry-through, because adding parallel mixers on a pedalboard just adds a ton of complexity and space.
 
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