That 80's Rack Chorus?

[Artie]

I didn't want to hijack loversmoon's thread, but I never heard of one of these before someone mentioned it in his "Chorus" thread. This thang:



This is the Fulltone clone of the original. These things appear to be highly coveted, with originals selling for thousands. Even Fulltone's clone is pushing a grand. From what I've read about this, it's basically three chorus pedals arranged in a left/center/right configuration. The tinkerer in me can't help but wonder if you could get close to the same affect by paralleling three "ordinary" chorus' through a small, inexpensive mixer.

Thoughts?

Artie

[PFDarkside]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

I believe the TC Corona has a Tri-Chorus tone print. Strymon certainly has it.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

^Not even close!

[PFDarkside]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

^Not even close!

Ok. I've obviously never played an original. My Rhodes isn't even Dyno'ed.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

They are nice simulations....but they are stuck at being simulations, they lack the whole depth and width of these old machines!
For Artie.....yeah you can mix three mono chorus pedals in parallel, but they lack that extra thing old BBD's has.
It will for sure be spacious and such....
If you can ever try any old Roland Dimension D, or some of those old Lexicons and such, you will notice that they sound much bigger and more lush and all those worn out adjectives.

[Artie]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

Thanks. I figured as much, but wanted to ask.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

Hmm well you could buy some parts put one together yourself
We are fiddeling with a 5 head echo right now....it is crazy good fun

[LLL]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

That Fulltone unit is based off the Songbird Tri-Stereo Chorus rackmount from the 80s.

[LLL]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

The tinkerer in me can't help but wonder if you could get close to the same affect by paralleling three "ordinary" chorus' through a small, inexpensive mixer.

Thoughts?

Artie

You could get a similar effect by triple-tracking (pan each track L, C, R) or using a harmonizer.

[Artie]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

I just might try that. It would be fun to see how rich I could a get chorus to sound.

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

I am the one that posted that pic. Sorry to send you down the rabbit hole lol (not really)

[Artie]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

Well, the good news is, this one may not cost me anything. I already have several flavors of chorus, and a mixer. So I can get started cheap.

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

Are you going to split your guitar signal? Or use aux sends and returns?

[PFDarkside]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

Is that really all it is? Three BBD chorus lines, one left channel, one right channel and one "center"?

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: That 80's Rack Chorus?

More or less yes. But there is a rather big difference in the BBD chips of then and now.