Give me examples of what you consider good tonal use of Chorus pedals

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Devin Townsend used to do a very subtle use of Chorus that I find tolerable, sometimes. Low mix, rate and depth, in a very "is this thing on?" way I kinda dig.

Anything from Terria is a great example of this, not to mention he used a SSS Strat for the heaviest of sounds. Other than that, Chorus should be disinvented and deleted from music history alongside Power Metal, Bon Jovi, wannabe Porcupine Tree and Pearl Jam bands, that clip of Orianthi playing blues, and tapping.
 
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Not a huge fan of cleans in general..or "lush" chorus..

Adding a mean/menacing phasey metallic kinda edge to distortion is what I like using it for...

Not the slickest video/recording, but sort of like this.. (@ 0.45 onwards..)

 
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The Cult, "Love" album. Gritty guitar sound with chorus all over that record. Still like it. "Rain" and "She Sells Sanctuary" come to mind. Apparently it is a Roland Jazz Chorus mixed alongside a Marshallish amp, although in really old live clips he seems to have just the JC.
 
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Another great chorus pedal song (actually I think it is a combination of the chorus on the JC-120 and an Electric Mistress) that I was listening to just today:

 
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I think it is time for some bass chorus now ;)

 
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Idiot. Examples? Mike Stern uses chorus the whole time. And so did Maiden in 'Somewhere in Time', like the entire album in general.
 
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Dave Locher said:
The Cult, "Love" album. Gritty guitar sound with chorus all over that record. Still like it. "Rain" and "She Sells Sanctuary" come to mind. Apparently it is a Roland Jazz Chorus mixed alongside a Marshallish amp, although in really old live clips he seems to have just the JC.
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Ok, this is a great example of successful Chorus.
 
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NegativeEase said:
I'm an idiot for asking what YOUR preferred examples of Chorus are? ok.
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He’s the resident grump

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NegativeEase said:
Ok, this is a great example of successful Chorus.
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I am not sure because there is a LOT of production going on and I haven't listened to it in years, but I think there is also a lot of chorus on the harder & heavier "Sonic Temple" album.

I am a big Billy Duffy fan. Unfortunately I am not an Ian Astbury fan. Such is life.
 
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Dave Locher said:
I am not sure because there is a LOT of production going on and I haven't listened to it in years, but I think there is also a lot of chorus on the harder & heavier "Sonic Temple" album.

I am a big Billy Duffy fan. Unfortunately I am not an Ian Astbury fan. Such is life.
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I love all that early New Wave/Goth Cult and the eponymous Electric -which out American Hard Rocked American Style Hard Rock -but thought Sonic Temple was just average ....

Then Ian Asbury was asked about the 80s Cult fans and he said they would be replaced lol . -and I kind of ignored the band after that

Then 2 decades later at a festival I saw Ian crying on stage about how happy he was to be playing in front of thousands of people like the old days and how rough the last 2 decades had been. :lmao:
 
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As for metal, Zakk used chorus all over the place on Ozzmosis and there are some killer tracks on that album...
 
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Obsessive Compulsive said:
Idiot. Examples? Mike Stern uses chorus the whole time. And so did Maiden in 'Somewhere in Time', like the entire album in general.
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Somewhere in Time has probably the worst guitar tones in otherwise good album I can think of.
 
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I hereby declare CHORUS as valid and justified in the world of effects based on the evidence provided in this thread!!!

Swirl-on everyone!
 
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I'll go one further: Chorus isn't just as valid effect; for those of true class and style, it is the modulation effect of choice. ;) Okay, I might be exaggerating a bit, but I think this thread also shows that chorus is usable in a lot of situations, and is a lot more versatile than it is given credit for.
 
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Sirion said:
I'll go one further: Chorus isn't just as valid effect; for those of true class and style, it is the modulation effect of choice. ;) Okay, I might be exaggerating a bit, but I think this thread also shows that chorus is usable in a lot of situations, and is a lot more versatile than it is given credit for.
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I personally find it really hard to dial in right amount of chorus. For most things it's always too much until there's so little of it it doesn't make sense to have it there in the first place.

There are some things I use it for, that really sound good. Then again I never really can say whether it's better with or without the chorus...

It does get that fancy clean tone, which I can't decide whether it sounds great or painfully cheesy.

I sometimes use it for kicking up the flanger sound, when I really want to sound messy.
 
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Jacew said:
I personally find it really hard to dial in right amount of chorus. For most things it's always too much until there's so little of it it doesn't make sense to have it there in the first place.
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One word: DC-2 (I have the reissue, but haven't tried it yet). That already has the sweet spots tuned in, and works equally well when switching from clean to distortion. This is a biggie for me: If I tie myself down with a pedal, it needs to feel right for cleans, moderately distorted and heavily distorted tones; the DC-2 sits in the right spot every time.

Jacew said:
It does get that fancy clean tone, which I can't decide whether it sounds great or painfully cheesy.
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Chances are that your ears think it sounds great, but that you have been conditioned to think it sounds cheesy. Abandon the latter for chorus enlightenment. ;)
 
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Sirion said:
One word: DC-2 (I have the reissue, but haven't tried it yet). That already has the sweet spots tuned in, and works equally well when switching from clean to distortion. This is a biggie for me: If I tie myself down with a pedal, it needs to feel right for cleans, moderately distorted and heavily distorted tones; the DC-2 sits in the right spot every time.



Chances are that your ears think it sounds great, but that you have been conditioned to think it sounds cheesy. Abandon the latter for chorus enlightenment. ;)
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It's not that. Just that I like that dryer more ''lo-fi" type of cleans generally. That lush chorused clean sounds great, but it's too overused for me to like it personally. Same reason I don't like to use wah.

I've been really interested about DC-2. I was close of getting one when saw it on sale in classifieds year ago, but 240e price tag was too steep for a chorus pedal for me.
 
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