Doing without compression and swirlies

noisepolluter

I keep thinking about bringing my Pedaltrain Jr back into use so I can have compression, chorus and an extra drive. Not sure how much I’d actually use them though.

Currently using a Nano+ with one drive, boost, delay, trem and tuner, and to be honest it’s really nice having such a small board, and that’s without even thinking about another isolated power supply on a bigger board.

Anyone regularly play songs where the original has chorus and/or compression as a noticeable effect, but you play it without?

Sassafras

I've managed to do without chorus ever since it was first invented.
Never had any complaints for not using it.

Jalapeno

Use Chorus quite a bit, not least for 12 string-like sounds.

failed_astronaut

I guess it depends on what you are playing but my wedding band board is Tuner - Klone - TS (core tone) - Dark Matter (stacking drive) - Chorus - Delay. I only really used Compression for single coils and as a volume boost so the TS serves that purpose.

Ossyrocks

I gave up chorus in the 90's and never looked back.

I had an old Ibanez CS-9 which had become somewhat of a crutch, my rig didn't sound right without it on all the time. I had to go cold turkey.

I say again, it was the 90's.

Winny_Pooh

Ditch the tuner pedal for a polytune clip on and add a phase 45, you can use the slow speeds for a nice warble and crank it up for a tremolo type sound too.