Got a Boss CE-2 Chorus. Effing amazing

[hsnyder]

Hi Guys/Gals.

I dont post here much, but ive decided to start. lol. I bought a boss CE-2 today, Black label/screws, made in japan. Literally older than I am. I dunno how many of you like chorus on your clean tones, but let me tell you... I have never in my life heard a chorus effect like this.

TBH I didn't use chorus that much. But I'm working on a CD right now and chorus just fits the clean passages on some of the tracks, so I thought I'd get a good one, and saw it on craigslist. I gotta say, anyone who is considering buying one of these things - they're totally different from digital choruses (chori?). I used to own an axe-fx and i thought that had nice chorus (which it did), but I can see why people make such a fuss about the CE-2

EDIT: CLIPS!!!!

Dry (No CE-2)
CE-2 in series
Mix of above two

I'd like to do a stereo one, but I'm not sure exactly how to do that to be honest... I don't want to just reverse phase and hard pan...

 

[kronk_1985]

demo?

 

[hsnyder]

will do tomorrow evening or over the weekend... Its 12:41 AM here right now

 

[rispsira]

Cool man ill definitelly would like to hear it. anyway congrats. Also you should check out the tc 1210 you can still find it used. i really love mine but ive never tried a CE2

By the way sorry if this is out of topic but for those who own some nice plugins how do they do in emulating the CE2? like echoboy? Because i have been considering buying a CE2 or a nice plugin

 

[hsnyder]

Hmmm.. well, tomorrow i'll do a quick demo. echoboy? I have never heard of it. I'll google it, and then maybe i'll do an A/B.

 

[rispsira]

echoboy is a plugin by soundtoyz if i am not mistaken. Anyway thanks man looking fwd to the demo!

 

[hsnyder]

Well that didn't end up happening - I had to do some emergency work over the weekend. Programmers are basically open heart surgeons for companies instead of people. I'll do this demo as soon as i can.

 

[aramism]

echoboy is my fav plugin. it has an amazing vibe to it for a plug in. i have hardware effects units as well and the echoboy does a great job getting damn close and in certain cases even being a better choice for some applications.


the chorus sounds awesome on the echboboy and sometimes i use it over the tc2290 or eventide.

 

[rispsira]

hsnyder: dont worry about it man!

aramism: thanks for the details on the echoboy

 

[hsnyder]

bump for clips

 

[Siguros]

Hey man, sounds great when mixed together! Just wondering if you can give me the details on what you're using for recording all in all. Cheers!

 

[hsnyder]

Hey man, sounds great when mixed together! Just wondering if you can give me the details on what you're using for recording all in all. Cheers!

No problem - it was pretty much a lazy mode setup

Les Paul Neck Hbkr -> INSTR in on MOTU Audio Express -> Lextac (amp sim plugin by LePou) -> LAConvolver (RedWirez Mesa V30 impulse response with Neumann U87 2 inches back infront of cap edge).

Then I played that through a hardware output, went into the CE-2, and then back to line in, and recorded the second track.

No real amps, no real dial swiveling or anything. I just dropped the bass a bit on the amp sim and left the knobs on the pedal at noon. The impulse was selected just out of the blue, I didn't A/B different ones to find the best one. So... Yeah, it could be about 10x better i'm guessing.

 

[Siguros]

Thanks man! The MOTU's pre's sound really nice, did you just do 1 track?

 

[Siguros]

Also what would you say is better the MOTU or a Saffire pro 24 DSP or a Profire 610?

 

[hsnyder]

Yeah its one track. I'm impressed with the MOTU tbh. I've never tried any focusrite stuff, so I can't comment. Sorry. I did think carefully before going MOTU though, read lots of reviews and tried a few out...

To thicken this up even more, I should record two new tracks, pan hard left and hard right, and leave the wet chorus track panned center... is that a good idea?

 

[Siguros]

Well it sounds nice for one track man! Did you have a look at the Pro 24 etc? I'm going to have to read a few more reviews and weigh up the pro's and con's first but the MOTU is definitely an option now.

I'm not sure about a centred take, never tried it may sound weird! Experiment is the only solution.

But I would say, double track and pan them L and R... duplicate them and put them both through the wet chorus then do a 50/50 or a 60/40% on the volume with 2 tracks hard left and 2 tracks hard right. Do you understand?

 

[hsnyder]

good idea. I shall try this.

TBH I didn't hear many good things about focusrite in general, I decided to steer clear. But really, this is like third hand experience - I've never even tried one out. If you go MOTU, consider the UltraLite instead of the Audio Express.. I almost wish I'd spent the extra 120 or whatever - its really not that much more money for a lot more interface. Oh well, supposedly they're expandable