Running the Boss CE-2w in mono 100% wet - trick it into thinking it's stereo?

Jonathanthomas83

Pre-ordered one of these, and October 31st can't come soon enough!

I have a way of running it parallel with my dry signal, which is exactly what the pedal will do in stereo. Running it stereo will cause issues for me.

But for various reasons, which I won't bore you with, I'd like to use this in mono and would like the mono channel to be completely wet (chorus only) with no dry (direct) signal in the mix.

I believe this can be achieved by running in stereo. The manual says when the second output jack is used, only the chorus goes through the mono output and dry goes through the second output (the manual says that when it's run in mono, both the chorus AND direct signal are mixed). Do you guys reckon, if I plug a jack cable into the second output to trick the pedal into thinking it's running stereo, would this give me full chorus on the mono channel? Is there such a thing as a dummy jack plug I can use for this?

Beexter

Sounds like it should work to me. Whenever I've needed a dummy jack plug, I've either used a George L's plug or one of those adapter plugs that convert a 1/8' plug to a 1/4' plug - worked fine 

Jonathanthomas83

@Beexter I think I've got one of those adapters, good plan :-) Thank you for that, just making sure I wasn't being stupid! 

ICBM

Aha, so the CE-2W is actually a CE-3 .

If so, simply use the 'B' output with nothing in jack A and you should get pure vibrato - not sure how the mode switch will need to be set but one of them should work. (Mode II on the CE-3 does.)

Jonathanthomas83

@ICBM manual says dry only out of output B. https://www.boss.info/global/support/by_product/ce-2w/owners_manuals/

ICBM

Jonathanthomas83 said:

@ICBM manual says dry only out of output B. https://www.boss.info/global/support/by_product/ce-2w/owners_manuals/

Ah, even easier - you just need to use the CE-1 Vibrato mode.

Jonathanthomas83

@ICBM how do you know that? :-)

ICBM

From the manual you linked…

Right hand side, third grey box down - 'Standard/CE-1 mode switch'. Mode 3 is given as 'CE-1 Vibrato'.

The CE-1 vibrato is the wet-only sound of the chorus.

Jonathanthomas83

@ICBM = no dry signal, just vibrato? Makes sense, thank you! :-)