chorus

Hi I'm looking at getting a chorus pedal and I've seen these two both around $200-250
* https://www.swindlereffects.com/store/p22/THE_GULF_CHORUS_-Functionalist%28NEW%21%29.html * https://neunaber.net/products/inspire

Any thoughts? I'm thinking more chorus than vibrato so the tap tempo on the swindler doesn't seem like it would be that useful.

heres another cool one i just found for a similar price https://www.matthewseffects.com/products/the-chemist

just off the top of my head, my favorite choruses are always analog... all time top 2 are the rack mount tri-choruses of the 80s and the juno/chorus echo roland chorus design... nect the CE2 and small clone, but nly the old small clone... lastly the big box, yellow mxr, new oens are better! that said, the new warpe vinyl chorus by one of thsoe boutique companies is a real killer! Now, any good flanger with a d-time control can be used as a chorus with the d-time set way long and the regen/resonance set way down ebcause a chrus is just a long flange with no regen. The Ibane FL9 is a real champ at this, basically a CS9 with the ability to flange too. The neuenbauer seems like a cool tri-chorus, but its probably digital, just a simulation. I would say that your first chorus should be a classic BBD version. Anyway,good luck

cheers, but what is the difference between a bucket brigade chorus and a tri-chorus?

an old tri chorus form the 80s? nothing! hre's mike fuller's copy, read the info https://www.fulltone.com/products/80s-rack-chorus A bucket brigade is an analog chip used to create a delay in signal. the OLD trichorus has 2 BBD lines for 2 different layers of chorus versus everything that came before that which just had 1 BBD line so you had 1 layer of chorus and dry. The neuenbauer is a digital simualtion, no BBDs used but it'll provide 2 chorus lines and dry signal like the coveted old rack effects. The digital chorus will have less self-noise while BBD chips tend to be a bit noisy. Digital chorus tends to be a bit more sterile, though ever since line 6 started modelling vintage stomp boxes the digital chorus effects have been getting less and less icy. Still, the BBD devices are quirky anc charming in a way digital isn't. The main reason to check out a digital unit is if you want to get a multi-effect and have MIDI control, otherwise you can't go wrong with one of the classic choruses or more fully featured flangers like the BF2 and FL9 to start out. The Cure, for instance? You're thinking they use a lot of chorus and some flange, but most of it is a boss BF2, even the chorus sounds. Only the early stuff is 'chorus' coming off a JC120. I had this rare mutron flanger at one time on loan and apart from having a built in expression pedal for extreme flange effects, the thing had the most lush chorus you would ever want to hear and there was nothing cold and icy about it... all 70s warmth when set up right. I'm not sure if that utilized BBD chips or s0me older more involved technology, but Im just saying that a flanger with really adjustable delay time is like 2 pedals in one and they are relative sleepers.

But yeah, are you getting the difference here? Its not much. Flange, chorus and phase are all heavily related and spawned out of the early 'tape flanging' and Varispeed ADT effects pioneered by the Beatles and their engineer Geoff Emmerick. under 30ms with a little time/pitch bend here and there for swooshing and maybe some repeats on the delay line? flanging... 30 or 40ms to get past the Hass effect? ADT? ADT with a little time/pitch bend? chorusing... fixed delay time with sweeping filters on the delayed signal? phasing. The character f the effects tends to be how they are implemented. Tape machiens have a vibe, BBDs have a vibe, OTAs have a vibe.... plain digital like from the 90s has a cold and crunchy sound (chorusing with an SPX90 is a glorious thing)…. they're doing the exact same thing but in a different way

Ah that nakes sense, I was looking at the strymon deco the other day and coulndt understand how it could do so much but now that makes sense

actually another question, whats the difference between the mxr analog chorus and the stereo chorus? the stereo is the yellow one but it sounds pretty similar..?

they sound pretty similar... mainly the stereo. They may use a different BBD chip but its a similar circuit and sound. I would guess that just stereo choruses from different eras may use different chips anyway based ona vailability... the old ones sound mushier then the new ones for example... and they have more self noise.