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I've got modulation on my delay and reverb pedals so I had been using that a lot, plus faking it with a POG 2 but there seems to be a slight delay with the POG that annoys me.
I like the MXR Microchorus is front of my amp, and/or the Digitech Multichorus in the loop. As an extra putting the multi between 2 digital delays (not set too high) goes straight to 80's awesomeness.
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Then when it's fully sunk in, come and apologise.
Mostly cos you know I'm right. ;-)
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Duran Duran, Human League, Culture Club, Iron Maiden,etc...bands making innovative music of its time. British bands who became world famous, pop and rock as cultural phenomena (Live Aid 1985 for example).
By the 90s we start to see the decline of British bands leading the way. Grunge as American, as anti pop, as recycling older ideas - that we'd reached the point where the 50s, 60s, 70s were now so far away you could steal from them and not expect people to notice. Into the 21st century we see the decline of the charts, the physical object replaced by downloads, streaming, YouTube, access to everything all at once so Elvis and Rhianna become all much the same.
I say this as someone who really wasn't all that interested at the time. But as a peice the 80s was the last golden era of British pop.
Glorious combination. If flanger and chorus is good enough for The Cult it's good for me.
Cue rude comments about Billy Duffy now I suppose...
I vote yes, but strictly for funky chops, preferably for a limited number of bars. If I see anybody strumming with chorus on I would probably leave the building. But funky chords and leslieish wobble on the odd phrase ala John Scofield it's ace. I'm using a Mooer at the moment, which is nice, but can leak clock noise in bybass if you leave it with the rate high.
Never really liked chorus on a distorted sound, apart from a few moments from the Cult and the most quintessentially 80s song ever - Eighties by Killing Joke.
Interestingly, there's a great clip of James Dean Bradfield demonstrating his greatest riffs, and Motorcyle Emptiness has a Boss CH-1 on it.
As an aside, whenever I hear a nice analogue chorus sound, I can visualise that distinctive CE-2 shade of blue, like some kind of mild synaesthesia.
I insist on analogue for chorus (and modulation generally).
Chorus pedals I own:
Visual Sound V2 Liquid Chorus
Voodoo Lab Analog Chorus [''sonic replica" of Boss CE1]
biyang tonfancier [ce-2 clone]
Aria CH-5 Chorus (MIJ, mid 1980s)
Some really nice mid-1980s Japanese analogue choruses - other than the obvious Boss and Ibanez models - can be found very affordably. brands such as Pearl, Yamaha, Aria, Guyatone.
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