Behringer CC-300 Space Chorus

It's pretty easy. There are only 4 push bottons on the top of the unit labeled 1, 2, 3, and you guessed it...4! The manual says that the effect gets deeper from left to right. I guess so. It was difficult to hear alot of difference between the settings. You can actually push as many of the buttons at one time as you want which is different from say the old Boss Dimension C (more on that in a minute!). Is setting 3 different from say 1+2? Hmmmm....That said it IS very easy to get a sound. Setting 1 is definitely less intense than say all four buttons down at once, but the differences are very subtle.

Well here it goes. For 30 bucks I had to get this and see how it compared to my old Boss DC-2. There are alot of things I like about the DC-2 and some that I don't. Well, I don't take it gigs for one thing. After having my Boss CE-2 ripped from my pedal board one night when I wasn't looking, I leave anything collectable at home. I have seen some question if this pedal is truely "analog". I think it is...I opened it up and it has the same pair of 3102/3207 chips that the DC-2 uses. The chips are made by Cool Audio.

So, how does it sound compared to the DC-2. Pretty darn good for 30 bucks! I actually think the CC300 does less damage to your tone than the DC-2. As much as I love the sound of the DC-2, I always hated the way it would wreck my straight signal. The CC300 seems to have less of an impact on the pure tone. One problem I found with the CC300 is that it is very sensitive to the input signal. The DC-2 is like that too but less so. With the CC300 even with low output strat pickups, it would distort if I hit the strings too hard. I'm not sure if there is any way to adjust that internally or not...

The other thing I noticed is that I can hear the modulation a bit more with the CC300 than the DC-2. Not terrible, but one of the main reasons I always loved the DC-2 was that the sound of the modulation disappeares. My favorite setting on the DC-2 was always button number 3. On the CC300 I found that pushing buttons 2 and 4 at the same time yields a similar sound.

So just rating the CC300 by itself I'd give it a 7 or so. As a 30 dollar substitute for a DC-2 that'll run you in the hundreds on the used market I give it a 9.

I really don't know. It looks cheap compared to Boss pedal. The base is metal, but the rest of the case is plastic. I have no experience with Behringer products. I once had a plastic Ibanez soundtank tube screamer and that thing didn't last at all. I know this is a different company, different product, but seems to have a similar build quality from what I can see. I would definitely use it at a gig as a sub for the DC-2, but I'm afraid the abuse of gigging might take its toll.

No opinion at this point.

I have been playing guitar for over 30 years. I have owned dozens of chorus pedals. I do own a DC-2 that I was comparing it to. This pedal definitely has the sound I was hoping it would have. If there is some way to adjust the input sensitivity I will like it even more. I will probably try it on a gig, but I worry about how well it will hold up in the long run. I will most likely run it in a true bypass loop both so I don't have to worry about it loading down the signal when not on, and also to put less wear on the switch. No one else is making a similar pedal now that I am aware of unless you go with one of the modeled emulations from say Line6. So, for 30 bucks you can't go wrong. Oh yeah, and the blue LED is cool touch. The thing is so bright I swear it's actually a laser or something!

Easy to set up and use, easy to push the buttons in various combinations.

Just got my hands on one of these, have been wanting to try one just for the hell of it since it looked to be a copy of the Boss Dimension C pedal, which is legendary and expensive. It has a similar construction - 4 buttons instead of knobs to adjust the effect. I tried it through 3 amps, one 60W tube head, one 200W solid state head and and Epi. Valve Jr. 5W. I can safely say the pedal didn't add any noise to my fairly long pedal chain, the bypass seems to be decent. I have a long pedal chain with both analog and digital effects. My current chorus pedal is a fabulous, vintage Japanese Maxon CS-01 with all the best chips and all of that. Problem is, its almost too nice for me. It's so tasteful and natural sounding, I was looking for something that would have a bit more of a thick, syrupy effect. The reason I'm looking for a mimic of the Dimension C, is that that pedal itself is a scaled down version of the Roland SDD-320 Dimension D processor, which is the legendary, best chorus ever. Apparently.

I can't speak to any of that, because I've never had the Boss DC-3 or the SDD-320, but I did for a while own the Boss CE-20 Chorus Ensemble, which has a setting designed to mimic the SDD-320, and I miss it. I got rid of the CE-20 because it was so bulky, and used the Maxon instead. I played using a Washburn set-neck dual humbucker guitar, the WI64 which has pickups wired to range from single to dual coils, no noise either way.

You can push the buttons in different combinations, and even if you have none of them pressed there is a mild effect. Not when the pedal isn't on, mind you, its just the 'minimum' setting I guess. The problem with both of the chorus pedals I had used previously was that they just weren't a pronounced and artificial enough sound for me. I'm going to keep trying this out for a while before I unload the Maxon, but the sounds here were instantly to my liking, if not "high quality" or "pristine". The first two buttons pushed simultaneously gave me a nice, slow, thick chorus sound of the swirly variety. Just the first button was similar but less pronounced. The higher buttons do more to accelerate the rate a bit, but mostly they detune in different ways. Which is more useful for me, as I will intentionally have two tracks against one another to create a similar effect at times in my recordings. Its hard to explain, but the basic chorus sounds I was looking for seem to be on tap with this little box. It handled distortion fairly well, similarly to the Maxon but again, a bit more thick and pronounced, and combined really well with my flanger also. I give it an 8 because while I like the sound of it, I would imagine its a bit fake for people looking for the shimmering clean chorus sound. It does that as well, just not nearly as well as the 'nice' chorus pedals. I can't tell from the packaging if this thing is actually analog or not. The package it came in says 'Analog 3-Dimensional Sound Effects Pedal", so I have to interpret that as a 'yes' on analog. Doesn't matter too much to me, as I care about the sound in the end, and however something is made, if it makes sounds I like, I'll use it!

Seems solid, but its not an unbreakable tank. Hard plastic outer shell, inputs / outputs are most likely chinzy...Behringer is known for skimping. No weird noises or unexpected problems so far though, should be OK as long as I take good care of it.

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I play all kinds of abstract / art rock - dreamy pop, dance-rock, shoegazey new wavey stuff. I like that New Order chorus sound, but I also like spaced out freakouts ala Mercury Rev and Spiritualized. This pedal has some promise for being able to fit into my pedalboard, but I'll have to play it for a while longer. I haven't tried recording with it yet, so that may have something to do with what I decide to do. So far, seems like a cool pedal though, it does give something like that 'Dimensional' effect, but its a little different too. Interesting. I'd like to hear their other new chorus which mimics the Boss DC-3 Digital Dimension as well. For $28, can't complain at all, since I'm thinking of replacing a $150 pedal with it!