Chorus schematics

[Ken Stone]

>> >   OR can anyone recommend a good commercial chorus unit preferably
>analog?
>> Boss CE-1, 2, or 3 Chorus pedal.  Used by Peter Gabriel and myself (what
>> further endorsements could you want? ;-).  Great for making digital sound
>> more analog.  US$30-40 on the used market.o  I know the 3 has stereo out,
>> not sure about the 1 & 2.  Panasonic MN300x on the inside, I believe.
>
>I remember reading years back that one of the outputs in a Stereo Chorus is
>just the input fed through and the other is the chorused output. This
>creates a stereo effect as the signal is supposed to move between speakers.
>Anyone have any more information or am I talking rubbish?

Pretty spot on. My Ibanez works this way. A better way to do it (in theory)
is to invert the delayed signal and mix it with the other output, so both
outputs contain a mixture of straight and delayed components. I did this
with a flanger years ago. No good if the signals get remixed to mono though.

So called pseudo stereo simulators do what the chorus units do too. Sounds
fine while the signals remain as stereo, but as soon as they are mixed back
to mono (eg, by dubbing a pseudo stereo video tape to mono) the result is
pretty savage flanging.

Ken
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