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Analog Man Guitar Effects Pedals
The Analog Man Chorus pedals are 100% analog, using NOS high voltage MN3007 Panasonic bucket brigade chips for the ultimate in tone. They all have true bypass (since 2000), depth knob, and cool silk-screened, darker blue hammertone powder-coated cases for durability. Also using the best quality USA made circuit boards, double-sided to isolate the signal from any noise, and professionally soldered for perfect, reliable circuitry. These new boards also have more shielding, less jumpers, and no volume drop when the pedal is switched ON. Still has the same awesome sounding circuit! While there are new Chorus pedals popping up lately, most are digital (check out the sound clips with distortion-YUK!) and NONE have the legendary reputation, reliability, and tone earned over 20 years of refinement of this circuit. Also no other company makes so many different models and options- one of ours should be perfect for you.
All of our Chorus pedals are still, and have always been, hand-assembled in the USA.
In January 2005 we came out with three new pedals, two were chorus pedals. The BI-CHORUS was previously only a custom order, in random cases. Now we have aluminum Hammond style die-cast boxes professionally powdercoated and silkscreened for the production version. Though the Standard Chorus has been selling better than ever, we thought it was time to add some cool features without changing the awesome tone of the pedal that we have spent years refining. And I had been enjoying my custom BI-CHORUS on my pedalboard for some time!
Here is a 3MB avi VIDEO of the BI-CHORUS demonstrating two settings and how the switches work. It is using a $90 Roland Cube amp with my demo Hagstrom guitar and the camera's mic so don't pay much attention to the sound.
The BI-CHORUS is the same exact circuit and sounds the same as the normal chorus. The only difference is the A-B Switch, which allows selecting one of two sets of SPEED and DEPTH knobs, not just a second speed, and the other features above.Don't worry, we will still be making the standard CHORUS and one more - the MINI CHORUS!
On the left is our new for late 2022 Mini Chorus with deep blue paint
and white graphics.
The MINI-CHORUS came out about a week before the BI-CHORUS and we sold the first batch quickly to made it a normal production pedal. The MINI-CHORUS is the same as our standard chorus, but in a smaller, hand stamped box. It is the same SIZE as our small comprossors/juicers, 2.5" wide x 4.75" long x 1.5" tall not including swithes, jacks, etc. These have both battery and DC adaptor power, and the same board inside for the exact same sounds as the normal Chorus. Top jacks is also available for cramped pedalboards. It's a great small chorus pedal with awesome tone! It is available with an external MIX (BLEND) knob and/or a Depth toggle for $25 more each. Starting in 2019, it was made available with the Stereo option (seen on the right), side jacks only and no room for a battery. If you use battery power, we recommend our standard chorus or Bi-Chorus as the mini chorus bottom plate has the circuit attached so you have to be careful when opening it up to replace the battery.
We now have over 20 different versions of our chorus pedal available if you count all the various options. We build them to order to your spec in just a few days. I dont think anyone else offers more than one or two versions of a chorus, so this is pretty unique and something that we can do since we are in effect a custom shop.
The original Electro-Harmonix Small Clone was one of the best chorus pedals ever made - with lush, shimmering tones. It was originally made from the late 70s until E-H was forced out of business by the mob gangsters and Japanese chip cartels about 1983. It could run on a 9V battery and was fairly small. This pedal has become VERY popular due to it's use by Kurt Cobain in Nirvana and many others. From some Nirvana web sites:
Kurt used the small clone for the chorus effects on Nevermind and Aneurysm. Visible easily on the Nevermind tour. His chain then simply went Guitar - DS2 - Small Clone - Amp. Used on Unplugged too. Visible in In Utero booklet under "Dumb" and on cover of Wishkah. Towards the end, Kurt got increasingly "effects-happy". He began using the Small clone for solos like School, About a Girl, In Bloom, Serve the Servants, etc.
The SMALL CLONE sounded great for the same reason that old fuzz faces, Tweed amps, and Les Paul Juniors sound so good - Simplicity!. The circuit used was about the simplest chorus that could be built based on the delay chips available at the time. There are no extra devices or circuitry to affect your pure tone. We use the original 1024 stage delay chip for high fidelity at the medium-short delay times that create chorusing sounds. We use New Old Stock (NOS) Japanese made Panasonic MN3007 chips, not the cheaper low voltage MN3207 or current Chinese 3207 chips that most others use. The 3007 chip was used in the original pedals in the late 1970s and very early 1980s and allows higher levels and less noise without clipping your signal. The Boss CE-2 used the 3007 chip, later CE-3 pedals use the mn3207. There is also a Chinese version of the 3207 being made now, a very cheap chip so it's popular. The new WAZA CE-2W and DC-2W use these new 3207 chips. The 3007 chips that we use have not been made for years, but we buy them up any time we can find them, and will use them as long as possible for the ultimate in tone.
Original small clones are always at the top of my want list in popularity but I can never find enough to satisfy the requests, and prices are CRAZY! The first one I had, I sold for $115, mint in the box at the Dallas vintage guitar show in 1993.
As a tribute to
this great Electro-Harmonix pedal, and due to the need for an
excellent analog chorus, aNaLoG.MaN decided someone must make
a pedal like this available. In late 1998, we came up with a duplicate, in a
smaller, more rugged box. AnalogMike organized everything, and
with the help of Alfonso Hermida (electrical engineer and pedal
designer) we found all the original parts and decided on all the
components and layout of the pedal. We also realized after
building our first batch that the factory schematic is not quite
correct and effects built to that spec will sound a bit weak. So
we dissected my original Small Clones and found one tricky part
that's value was slightly changed and made all the difference in
the sound. I later found a few more tweeks to make them even
better sounding, thanks to Electro-Harmonix designer Howard Davis
who consulted for me to improve the true bypass and create
the stereo option. The pedal is no longer an exact "CLONE", but has
been developed and improved in every new version we have made.
The second problem after you somehow find an original Small Clone, is that they just do not hold up well and tend to fall apart electrically and physically. Several people waiting for our first batch got back to me and told me that they had found originals, but were already requiring repair. Ours is built like a tank so it should hold up much better.
I decided not to mess with the classic circuit much but changed a few features that people have been asking for. We added true bypass and a depth knob instead of the two-position depth switch. The depth knob allows any setting from no chorus to full-on chorus, with 25% more depth available than the old depth switch allowed. The true bypass switch is designed for quiet switching with just a slight pop as in any true bypass pedal. Stop losing your tone with your non-true bypass Boss, digitech, line6 etc chorus pedals.
We chose this design for our Chorus pedal because it could have seperate Depth and Speed controls. This will allow my two favorite settings: medium depth / high speed for a LESLIE simulation, and high depth / low speed for a rich, thick chorusing. I also like a medium depth / low speed setting sometimes- this setting fills out your sound without really being noticeable until you turn it off, then you notice something is missing. The old Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble has a cool sound, but with one knob controlling both speed and depth of the Chorus, it cannot be dialed in to my favorite sounds. And it is not really designed to be used with guitar level signals, the CE-1 works a lot better at line level (keyboards, effects loops, etc). We do have a CE-1 mod though to make it work well with a guitar, see our BOSS page for more info.
On the left you can see a closeup view of the circuit board. The circuit board is double sided with plated through-holes as used by the military, this keeps the components perfectly attached to the board.
Why does our chorus sound better than the others that are made today? Both the MN3207 that most others use, and the MN3007 that we have always used, are rated for 2.5% maximum Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) at a certain input voltage level. For the MN3007, this level is 0.78V RMS. For the MN3207, it's 0.25V RMS!! This means the MN3007 that we use can take a much higher input signal level, which means much more dynamic range, and less noise. Think of it as trying to play your home stereo at the same clean loud volume through a 78 watt solid state amp or a 25 watt S.S. amp. The 78 watt amp will have less distortion and noise, and sound much better at higher levels.
For you tech freaks here is what the back of the board looks like. You can see the light green GROUND PLANE which acts as a shield, like shielded cable, for the ultimate in noise prevention. Also note the plated through holes and some more perfect solder joints. This was one of the first boutique uses of such a high quality circuit board.
Not really, a Uni-Vibe is a specific phase shifter and does not use time delay or sound very good as a high speed leslie. Our chorus pedal does true time-delay based chorusing, by delaying your signal and mixing it back into the original signal. It also varies the delay time slightly (modulates it) at the speed set with the SPEED knob. The sound is not like a univibe's "chorus" sound which is awesome for the Hendrix/Trower sounds but not really chorusing. There is much more info on the differences between a Uni-Vibe and a chorus pedal on my FAQ .
Unlike "digital" Chorus pedals, this pedal sips your battery very gently, using only about 7 milliamps when ON (about 10 for the Stereo version). This is only slightly more current than a tube screamer uses. That means an alkaline battery will last over 70 hours in this pedal. It also means you can share the same power supply with several other analog pedals, as long as the voltage stays over 9V you will be fine.
All of our chorus pedals come standard with a POWER JACK. This is the hole in the pedal to plug your POWER SUPPLY into. We can sell you an optional power supply, or you can use your own Boss style power supply (or voodoo labs, CIOKS, etc).
Most guitar effects are made to run on 9 volts DC, because 9V batteries are small and popular. But the chips are not really designed for 9V and will run and sound better at higher voltages. We sell an optional 12Vdc or 18Vdc power supply for our chorus pedals (we only have USA versions of these supplies). Higher voltage will give more clean headroom before distortion, more clarity, and maybe a little deeper chorusing. It is especially beneficial if you run a hot (loud) or distorted signal into the chorus. These power supplies will also work great on our tube screamer mods (especially the SILVER mod) and older Boss pedals which specify the ACA adaptor.
You can use the ACA (12V) output on PedalPower2 for any of our
chorus pedals. Use the normal PP2 boss style connector cables
when using our pedals at higher voltage.
The Mono chorus pedals can handle up to 18V max.
15-16 volts is the optimal voltage. The pedalpower LINE6
output is about 16 volts, perfect for our mono chorus.
But the LINE6 output is unregulated so it may cause some hum
depending on your gain and other equipment.
Our stereo chorus pedals with the standard 9V Stereo Relay switch
should not be run at more than 13V or damage to the relay
could occur. If you will always run 12V - 18V we can build your
stereo chorus with a 12V relay (do not exceed 18v!) but then it might not work on a battery.
The specs for the 12V relay say it will work down to about 9V but I tested
one and it worked even at 7V (your mileage may vary!). We also have a 4PDT
switch available now, to switch the stereo output without a relay, and that will
work at any voltage.
We do not modify the chorus pedal for different voltages, other than the relay. So you do not have to specify anything on your order whether you will use a 9V battery, 9V power supply, 12V, 18V, etc. The pedals will work at any of those voltages with no modifications inside, except for the stereo relay option as explained above.
Most effects pedals do not work well in an amp's effects loop, unless the loop has SEND and RETURN level
controls. With those controls, you can lower the signal to match what a stompbox expects to see.
If there are no controls, the loop is probably meant for line-level rack effects units.
If your loop does work well with effects pedals, the ones you might want to put in the loop are
delays and other delay based effects like reverb or chorus. Most other pedals will sound
better before the amp.
If you use amplifier distortion then a chorus may sound and work better in your effects loop. But if you use effects pedals for distortion, you can put the chorus after your dirt pedals on your pedalboard.
There is a pedal available that will convert an amp's effects loop to/from line/guitar level, and has nice reverb too. It's the Fuchs Reverberator. This will allow our chorus pedal to work in any effects loop, PLUS add some awesome sounding reverb! The Pigtronix Keymaster will work for matching levels also.
If you ever play through two amplifiers, or record in stereo with your guitar on both sides, you may be interested in the STEREO option.
The stereo version was suggested to me by Eric Johnson who likes to use his choruses in stereo. I made a prototype (#1 stereo pedal) for Eric and he likes it a lot. The mid 2001 - 2006 models came standard with a STEREO UPGRADEABLE Ver3 circuit board with a header on it to make the additional stereo board attachable. But we ran out of the little stereo boards for those so pre-2006 pedals are not stereo upgradeable.
In early 2006 we added the stereo circuity onto the main chorus board (ver4) so the extra "stereo board" is no longer needed. Here is a picture of the Ver4 boards, mono on the left and with the added stereo option on the right:
You can see the blue BIAS trimpot and the white MIX trimpot
near the center of the boards. Note the setting of the white trimpots, this
gives you the same sound as the single chorus pedals.
With the stereo option, the sound from the normal output jack is exactly the same as our standard MONO Chorus, so there are no drawbacks to the STEREO model. The stereo option is $50 extra on a new standard chorus or Bichorus pedal.
Stereo inputs are not available, as that would requite two complete chorus circuits inside the pedal. Instead, it's best to put a mono signal into the chorus, and then send the two (stereo) chorused output signals into a true stereo delay with stereo inputs. There are several available, such as the Boss DD7, Eventide Time Factor, etc. Those will preserve the stereo image that the chorus has created. If you really want stereo inputs, we can make a chorus pedal with 2 circuit boards slaved together, but it gets quite expensive and large. We can also do that with two seperate chorus pedals- one master and one slave. One normal cable syncs them to send the master's voltage to control the slave's circuit. The Master can be any chorus version including Bi-Chorus. The slave could be a standard or mini chorus as the knobs don't do anything, though the DEPTH toggle and mix controls will work. Both Master and Slave are designed to work normally when nothing is plugged into the SYNC connecting jacks.
An existing Ver4 Analog Man mono standard or Bichorus pedal can be modified for stereo output for $75. See our REPAIRS/MOD FORM for more info on sending in a chorus for the stereo mod or other options (toggle, mix, etc).
The STEREO version comes standard with TRUE BYPASS for the 1st ever true bypass stereo pedal!
With either of the above options, either output can be used in mono. When off it will be true bypassed, when on it will have chorusing. I recommend using the top output for mono chorus use, this will be 100% exactly the same sound and circuit as if you bought the standard MONO chorus. But you may also like the bottom output in mono use, it is a little thicker and more effected.
On the left is the stereo option on the BI-CHORUS with side jacks.
The bottom left jack is the stereo output. On the right is stereo with
top jacks, all 4 jacks (input, power, output, stereo out) are on top.
BASS GUITAR: Not all bass players use chorus but it's a cool effect on bass and this one will not affect your tone at all when OFF due to true bypass. A chorus pedal is not as strong on bass, so you have to turn the DEPTH knob up higher, especially at slower speeds. It can do a cool leslie/vibrato at high speeds. Deep option (fixed deep or depth toggle) is recommended for bass. Chris Maresh got a MINI CHORUS with MIX knob and DEEP option in late 2011 for playing bass with Eric Johnson. That seems to be the most popular model for bass players. I got an email from another Chris about his Chorus with the FIXED DEEP option : "I want to say that I LOOOOOVE this pedal. The effect itself is fantastic, but, one thing I noticed with it that other choruses lose with bass is the attack... and this pedal somehow maintains the attack with every note. Absolutely killer creamy chorus with a bite. PERFECT for bass. My Zon fretless SINGS with this thing... it's INSANE. Seriously love, love, LOVE it... I've been telling everyone about it."
We now offer a DEEP option, with a three position
mini toggle switch. This actually changes the DELAY TIME, unlike
the depth knob. The DEEP setting (longer delay time) not only
makes the chorus thicker at all settings, but moves the frequency
spectrum of the chorus down. This enhances the low frequencies. Sounds
great on bass and excellent on guitar too, if you want to
be able to dial-in thicker
chorus sounds including some warbly, seasick sounds at higher speeds.
The second (middle) position (shorter delay time) is a THIN setting, which
sounds a little like the tc electronics Chorus. It is a lighter
sound, with less low end, and also a little less analog white noise.
It sounds a little flanger-like, as a flanger has a shorter delay time
than a chorus. The DEEP setting may have a little more white noise.
The Third position (normal) is the exact same setting as our standard
CHORUS, with no extra noise or change in tone from our
normal pedals.
The middle position of the toggle switch is always the THIN setting. On the standard chorus, DEEP is down and NORMAL is up. On the Bichorus, LEFT is deep and RIGHT is normal. But use your ears to see which side is deep and which is normal as some may be reversed (easy to install the toggle switch the other way).
There is no extra charge for a fixed DEEP or THIN
setting, or we can add the Toggle for $25 extra at time of ordering
(or $50 to mod an existing pedal). On the BI-CHORUS we normally
put the toggle switch on top above the SUN.
The DEEP switch works on both sides of the bi-chorus.
Chorus is a blend of normal (dry) sound, and a delayed, modulated vibrato-type sound (wet). The standard setting on all our chorus pedals is 50% wet and 50% dry, for a normal chorus sound. With a MIX control, you can tweek it from about 25% to 75% wet, by turning the knob or trim pot. The optional MIX TRIMPOT at the centered setting on the mini or normal chorus it is the normal 50% sound. There is a notch detent on the MIX KNOB at 12:00 so you can feel the stock setting. Mix adjusts only the mono output (stereo output is not affected). MIX is available externally as a knob only on the mini chorus, it is a standard internal trim pot on the bichorus and an option on the standard chorus. The MIX trimpot on the BICHORUS should be turned a little CCW of center for the same sound as our normal chorus. From the centered horizontal setting, turn it just under 1/8 of a turn, to point towards one of the the metal parts of the trimpot, for our standard setting. See the picture above under STEREO OPTION to see this setting. Or just go by ear for the best sound for YOU.
With the mix up high, you can get a reasonable vibrato sound, but without control over the waveshape like a true vibrato pedal. With the mix down very low, it adds sort of a thickening clean boost with some doubling, a nice warm, fat sound, not really a "chorus" sound. The MIX trimpot will make the pedal louder if you turn it far from the center position.
While we are glad to add depth toggles, mix, etc to the pedal at extra charge, sometimes simple and elegant is best. I got this email to drive home the point :
Hey I've been playing my Chorus even more the past few days and I realized something - IT RULES!!!! The last e-mail was about me asking how to make a "Swiss army knife chorus". I realize now I don't need a chorus that can cover every sound under the rainbow. I need a chorus that sounds bad ass and perfect and I have that! Thanks for your attention to my lame ass questions. And thanks for making the Chorus - a stunning piece of analog magic.
We can also add an expression pedal control jack for the speed of the chorus. It needs a 1 meg ohm controller, so a normal EXPRESSION pedal will not work. We can supply a metal crybaby type controller to work with the chorus for $95. The expression jack option (the jack on the pedal) is $50.
Here is a picture of the expression pedal connected to the chorus. This expression pedal has an optional MAX SPEED knob on the side so you can preset the maximum speed when you push it down all the way ($25 extra). We can put the expression jack on the left of the speed knob on the standard chorus, or on the top beside the power jack on a mono bichorus. On the Bichorus, the expression jack will work for speed on one side only, and the other side will work as normal.
We have also built our chorus pedal into a wah type shell, with a knob on the side for depth and the "wah" pedal controlling the speed. It has a true bypass switch and LED. These were $285, available on our shopping website as the FOOT CHORUS. Click Here for a picture of one with all the bells and whistles : Stereo outputs (blinking LED), Depth Toggle, external MIX knob. Speed is controlled by the rocker (by foot) and depth knob is always on the side.
These are the options we can do on each pedal, sorry other combinations are impossible.
| Standard | Mini Chorus | Bichorus | Foot chorus | |
| Stereo | option | option | option | option |
| Toggle | option | option | option | option |
| Mix Knob | option | option | option* | option |
| Mix Trimpot | option | option | Standard | option |
Beware a comparison demo on youtube by one of our competitors. It shows an older darker blue Chorus with the old pointed knobs, in a more square box, with no chrome bezel on the LED, and it does not sound great. We had some of those type built by a contractor about ten years ago and their machine-soldering did not work well, so some did not sound good. We have been making them here at our shop by hand since then with no problems.
Here are some samples, we will add more soon!floyd.mp3 Some Floyd, on a Tele (Tom). The 1st phrase is just the Chorus, then our COMPROSSOR is added and you can hear how it fills out the sound.
yespolice.mp3 Some Yes/Police, on a Strat (Roger Filgate). No settings are changed, only picking style.
coldshot1.mp3 Leslie sounds - some SRV style playing on a Strat (Roger Filgate). Chorus has speed at about 4:00 and depth 1:00.
Noexitv2.mp3 Here is a DIFFERENT sound, inspired by Jimmy Page's Leslie solo on "Good Times Bad Times". It's from Mitch Stein of the Steve Kimock band, THE HERMANATORS and Jim Weider's Project Percolator. Mitch played his King of Tone through the Chorus into a Two Rock amp.
Here is a good explanation of the depth toggle switch on a BICHORUS by my buddy Donner on youtube.
If you like indie melodic echo and reverb-rich pop, check out The Big Sad by Overlord. You can contrast the digital chorus used on the lead guitar with the warm analog man chorus used by the rhythm (2nd) guitar, comes in at 10 seconds on the left side. This is a live on-air performance.
There are some Bass Guitar samples at the bottom of this link.
Kenny's onstage pedalboard, 5/02, with
my SNUFF BOX
on the left, then the Chorus. Two of my
TS9/808 pedals are on the right,
and the Captain Coconut in back. He was excited when he first got this
chorus pedal in 05/01, he put it on his pedalboard 5 minutes before
showtime causing his guitar tech Roy Kelly to nearly have a
heart attack! But it
worked out great- he used it on many songs all night long,
including most of "Blue on Black". The next time
I met up with them over a year later, it was still going strong
on his pedalboard, and still being used to take his playing up
a notch at strategic times. In late 2007 I brought him a
BICHORUS to the Experience Hendrix show as he wanted a slow chorus in addition
to his Leslie sounds. He was using it through 2008 and hopefully beyond. See my
weBLOG for more info
on KWS.
In June 2004, Kenny
spent most of the month filming
a blues music documentary. He recorded and filmed performances with the
likes of B.B. King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Hubert Sumlin,
Pinetop Perkins and "Steady Rollin'" Bob Margolin in juke joints,
on front porches and in other comfortable settings. He also
had the guys from Double Trouble and some from the KWS band
on hand. This documentary is available on DVD and CD.
For this project, Kenny had
his chorus (seen above on the pedalboard and at left in 6/04)
shipped to the locations, it was all he needed.
Here's Kenny in early 2012 showing his Bichorus. Scroll back a bit for the KOT demo : Premier Guitar Youtube
Dan Spitz of ANTHRAX got a BICHORUS in late 2005 and wrote me :
I'm not easily impressed bro. I usually wait about 6 months to let the newness of something wear off before I comment. At this point I don't see how your chorus pedal will ever leave my custom 'clamshell pedaltrain' board.
I think my Bi-Chorus is coming along with me into my nailed and screwed up coffin and up into Gods hands so I can jam with Hendrix when I arrive.
(In 2007 he got back to me again:) I'm off the road after two years of pounding your chorus pedal into smithereeeeens.... not one hiccup. Just pure waves of chorus/flange/univibe doom for me! It is my only chorus pedal and it will stay that way. Thank you for taking a portion of your life and creating joy for so many of us my brother of tone, we all love you!"
Dan used it on 2005/2006 tours and says he will be using
it extensively on the new CD. Here is a
picture of Dan and his touring rig in 2006.
Matt Hocking, from the Edgar Winter band, wrote me:
Thanks so much for the advice. I've been using the Prince Of Tone and absolutely love it....
and I've used everything....and I mean everything....your chorus that I bought also blows away my
vintage TC Electronics and my original BOSS CE-1...keep up the great work!!
The main delay chip used in the pedal is no longer made (but we have hundreds in stock) and costs more than all the electronic components in most boutique effects (for example all the TS-808 tube screamer clones) so we can not sell these cheap. But they are priced well compared to many of the TS-808 copies, and less than many other high-end analog chorus pedals currently available.
We have 18 versions of chorus pedals due to all the options we offer, so they are built to your exact specs after we get your order. They take a few days to build and we will email when we process your order and again when your pedal is shipped.
For easy ordering, check out our new website buyanalogman.com . The new website uses a shopping cart for everything so it's very easy to buy multiple items or add in options. It allows using paypal in addition to several other payment methods including credit cards. It also keeps track of status, tracking numbers, etc and allow editing orders after they are placed.
Here is a
phone message
I got on my answering machine from a new Analog Man Chorus player,
you may recognize him!
Andy Powell from Wishbone Ash is touring with
a stereo Chorus he picked up in early 2003. It
sounds awesome with his '67 Flying V and
with his King of Tone and TS9DX/808/Mode mods running into it. Ben
Granfelt was the other lead guitarist and he got a
Black BI-CHORUS, also
in stereo, so he could switch between high speed leslie sounds
and low speed normal chorus sounds.
Check out Violet Burning if you want to hear our
Chorus live. Andy Prickett (lead guitar) and Mike Pritzl
(vocals and guitar) both have
them on their pedalboards. The bass player does also- that's three
of them on stage! They help with their ethereal, alternative sound.
Check them out in the Long Beach, CA area or on
Northern Records. They sent me their live DVD and CD
which are really cool.
Andy also uses the Chorus when he plays with CUSH and
on most of the Northern Records music that he produces.
AJ Dunning, ex-lead guitar in The Verve Pipe,
toured with his, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd seems to turn his
on quite often, for over a decade now.
Tony Iommi has one of our older light blue chorus pedals on his
Studio Pedal Board. He listed it as used on his
2005 Fused album. He also has a few of our TS9/808 mods which he uses live.
Dave Malone
from the Radiators got one in early 2002, and is enjoying
it in his live setup with his TS9/808, KOT, DS1/pro,
Sunface, modded wah, bicomp, etc.
Also check out
Mark Karan, he has one with the DEEP mod
after his BICOMPROSSOR.
In 2012, Mick Box of Uriah Heep is using our Bi-Chorus pedal, he picked it up when he was here in the USA. Pat Travers, and Mick Jones, a founding member of Foreigner, are also using the Chorus pedals. Mick Jones' Monitor Engineer Lorenzo Banda (Foreigner, Heaven and Hell, Dio, etc) said The Analog Man Chorus pedal is the best sounding Chorus that I have ever come across. It's undoubtedly the best Chorus pedal on the market.
Flume was using our chorus in most of their new CD, and it's heard
on the flash intro on their web site. Brad Whitford
used an Analog Man Chorus on the Aerosmith tour in 2003.
Brad Fernquist has one on his board and one for backup for the
Goo Goo Dolls tours in 2007.
Richard Williams of KANSAS bought our Stereo chorus in late 2003
to go with his other Analog Man pedals (Bicomp, 808 mods, etc) and
has been using it live ever since. Richard got one of our
upgraded stereo RELAY switches so the switch would hold up to
their heavy touring.
Shayne Hill of Beaver Brown
has a unique orange BI-CHORUS, which he uses with his Mini Bicomp
and DD6, TS9, BD2, and SD1 mods.
Lloyd Cole
bought a Chorus with the
Depth toggle. Gabriel Moses (Macy Gray) is enjoying his Chorus
with depth toggle. Lee Ranaldo is using a BICHORUS in sonic youth
with his KoT pedal in 2006.
Al Schnier from moe. got a pair of Bichorus pedals in late 2005. He wrote in late 2006: I can't tell you how much I love my Bi-Chorus. I'm using it about 1/3rd the time these days. Very nice pedal! Here's a shot of Al's large pedalboard with the Bichorus, Bicomp (bottom middle), DD6/hicut (left), and a cool AB switch we made him from an MXR paperweight box HERE . Another great player who has been using our chorus on almost all his clean sounds is John Wesley who I was lucky enough to meet in 2007 while he was playing with Porcupine Tree and again in 2016 when we was opening for Marillion. He's an awesome player in a great British progressive rock band with a nice edge, check them out if you get the chance! Marillion's Steve Rothery is also using a Bi-Chorus, also heard with The Wishing Tree. Steve used our Mini Chorus for most of the cool leslie type sounds on his fantastic 2016 solo album The Ghosts of Pripyat, and also the recent Marillion album. Steve also used his KOT for all his solos on the solo album.
Jared Scharff, guitarist in the SNL band, got some of our pedals about 2007, and was still
using them on the show when he sent me a note in 2011:
I never liked chorus pedals.
In fact, hated them untill I played the AnalogMan chorus.
From the first time I used it, I instantly loved it.
First time I felt that a chorus effect was warm and lush.
On SNL, I use it all the time as a great faux leslie sound, it inspires me. Every time I turn it on,
some guys in the band always turn around and smile at me! Haha. Such an important pedal for SNL! Love it!
Vinnie Moore bought a MINI CHORUS which he is taking on tour with UFO in 2012. Wolf Hoffman of Accept got a standard chorus and is using it in his rack on tour. Here he explains his setup.
James Bay, a great British singer/guitarist/songwriter, has a Bi-Chorus on his pedalboard as shown on thegigrig's That Pedal Show in 2015.
Lee Pomeroy got a Mini Chorus in 2017 while on tour with YES and is using it in the loop of his amp with his Rickenbacker bass guitar for those great Squire tones.
Keep on CHORUSing!
Mike aNaLoG.MaN
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