Chorus Effect
Chorus Effect
any guitarists know a song with good chorus effects in it?
Any early Cure....
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Behringer UC200 Guitar Chorus Effect Pedal List Price: $47.99 Sale Price: Too low to display |
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The UC200 effects pedal enhances your guitar�s tone by letting it sound super-thick with an unbelievably rich stereo effect. The UC200 features dedicated Level, Tone, Rate and Depth controls for awesome sound shaping... |
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MXR Stereo Chorus Effect Pedal List Price: $314.79 Sale Price: $114.98 Used From: $142.57 |
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The MXR M134 Chorus Pedal is a gorgeous sounding pedal that will remind you how cool chorus can be! Want to add sparkle to clean-toned arpeggios? Animate strummed passages? Widen and fatten distorted power chords? This box will do it all, cleanly and quietly... |
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Pyle-Pro PPDLC1 Super Guitar Chorus Effect Pedal with Depth, Speed, And Level Controls List Price: $84.99 Sale Price: $29.99 |
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Get thick with this super chorus guitar effect pedal. Depth, speed, and level controls allow you to tweak the effect to your exact specifications. Requires a 9V battery or AC adaptor. |
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Boss CH-1 Super Chorus Pedal List Price: $139.50 Sale Price: $76.89 Used From: $59.00 |
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The CH-1 Super Chorus pedal delivers a clean classic chorus sound with crystal-clear highs and a unique stereo effect, variable between left and right speakers. |
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T-Rex Engineering Tonebug - Chorus/flanger Guitar Chorus Effect Pedal List Price: $199.00 Sale Price: Too low to display |
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With the t-rex chorus/flanger, you get a beautiful, richly textured chorus sound that will add a whole new dimension to your playing. alsong with the chorus effect, you get a great-sounding flanger mode... |
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Corona Chorus is your go-to pedal for all your shimmering and warbled goodness. |
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This all-analog pedal uses bucket-brigade circuitry to create classically lush, liquid textures that you just can't get with digital circuitry. Rate, Level, and Depth controls, as well as knobs for cutting High and Low frequencies allow ultimate tone control... |
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Carl Martin Chorus Effects Pedal List Price: $457.00 Sale Price: $213.35 Used From: $175.00 |
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Carl Martin Chorus xII is a dual stereo chorus foot pedal. Designed by Canadian electronics wizard Daniel Van Kranendonk, the unit is the result of five years of careful research and development. It has two identical but independent sets of speed and depth controls... |
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 MOOER Analog Chorus Effect Pedal Ensemble King True Bypass with MN3007 Chip NEW  US $48.10
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 Vintage Tokai TCH 1 Chorus Guitar Effect Pedal Japan US $75.00
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 Boss CH 1 Chorus Guitar Effect Pedal US $55.00
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 Boss CE 20 Chorus Ensemble Guitar Effect Pedal US $81.20
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 DOD FX60 STEREO CHORUS Guitar Effects Pedal US $39.00
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 Danelectro Milkshake Chorus Effect Pedal DJ7 Mini Pedal US $6.50
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Audio Effects - Phase Shifting & Chorus
Audio effects! Is there anything they can't do? We're continuing on with this series, this article being part 4 in the series. I was thinking about the best way to abstractly describe the function and importance of audio effects and knowing your effects well. This is what I came up with. Your studio is basically your tool box, with all your effects and gear being tools in your tool box. Most people know their tools pretty well, but most are not masters. To hammer a nail, ideally you'd want to use a hammer. It would be the most efficient and easy way to do it. You could use a screwdriver or even a wrench to do the same job, but it may take more time and your end result might not be up to your standards. So, basically I'm trying to say, you need to master all of your tools before you can produce and edit music correctly. Well, that was a long winded explanation for a simple idea. Moving on.
Today we're going to be discussing phase shifting and chorus effects. Phase shifting is kind of cool, and I'm really excited to delve into how it works. Chorus is a basic effect, and may not elicit excitement in most of you. But like any effect, it's one of those that is used all over the place so often that you probably can't tell when it's used. Anyways, let's discuss how these effects work and why they work the way they do.
Phase Shifting
The first phase shifting effect units were pretty simple. Phasing was originally produced by copying the sound onto two analogue tape decks and mixing them together. One deck was run slightly faster than the other and the phasing effect was created by the rising and falling "wave interference" of the two signals. The term phasing more specifically refers to a swept comb-filtering effect where there is no linear harmonic relationship between the teeth of the comb. A flanger is a sub-type of phaser, with its effect usually being more precise, produced by the harmonic relationship of the comb filter being linear. Phasing effects in modern music are typically used in conjunction with electric guitar, and it is also used to "sweeten" the sound of electric keyboards. Also, a fun fact is that a phaser was used to create C-3PO's voice in the movie Star Wars because the phaser sound lends a synthetically generated feel to the human voice.
Chorus
When chorus is used, individual sounds with roughly the same timbre and nearly the same pitch converge and are perceived as one. When it is successful, all the sounds hold the same tune and it sounds as if they all came from the same source. The chorus effect is enhanced when the sounds originate from different moments in time and from different physical locations. To produce this effect artificially, a computer processor takes an audio signal and mixes it with one or more delayed, pitch-shifted copies of itself. This results in the production of a single sound that simulates the sound of several instruments or sounds.
Alright, this wraps up the 4th installment in my audio effects article series. I never knew how the chorus effect worked, and now that we discussed it, it seems like the name of the effect is exactly what it does. And phase shifting was sort of a carry-over from the article discussing flange. But since flange is basically a type of phase shifter, I think that it was very important that we discussed it in this article. Anyways, hope you all learned something in this article. Please stay tuned for my next installment in this continuing series.
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