Behringer CC-300 Space Chorus

4 buttons. super easy to find a good chorus sound. took me less than 5 minutes. didnt bother to look at the manual. it isnt needed

I play ibanez artcore guitars with gibson pickups. Heres my pedal config:

EH Nano Small stone

Vox V810 valvetone overdrive

Boss sd-1 Super Overdrive

Guyatone ST-2 Compressor

Behringer CC300 Space Chorus

Guyatone SV-2 Slow volume

Boss DD-20 Giga Delay

MXR M-133 Micro amp


$30 for an analog chorus? this pedal sounds great with overdrive & works well with other effects. I actually use the default setting before the buttons are pushed. gives a nice, lush, subtle chorus that mixes well with my tone instead of overpowering it.

so far so good. its made of cheap plastic. I imagine it will be fine as long as I dont drop it, stomp on it, & treat it with care.

havent bothered to contact them. hopefully I wont need to

this is a great chorus pedal. it can give you that over the top glam rock chorus if you want it, or can give you a nice dreamy shimmering sound similar to early 80's modern rock or shoegaze. I use it for the latter.

Four on-off switches each with increasing intensity of effect and each can be combined for 16 levels of chorus. (Actually 17 as when all the swtiches are off, some effect is still heard)

There is no individual indication to say which switches are depressed so it can be difficult to change in dark lighting conditions - especially as the blue led 'on' light could blind an elephant at 15 miles.

No manual is needed, believe me.

All sounds are potentially useable but if you need full-on, '20000 leagues under the sea' chorus, this probably won't do it for you.

Playing prediminately Gordon Smith HH guitar > modded cry baby wah > fuzz > Laney all-tube amp. Effects loop contains delay, this chorus and the amp has a reverb at the end of the chain.

I was suprised at the warm nature and subtlety of this pedal, considering it's price. I had a Boss CE2 which suddenly packed up and this was a cheap, emergency replacement. To my delight it turned out to be very like the Boss - I believe that it has been proved to be a clone.

The lesser settings (e.g. buttons one and two) add a subtle width to your sound and it is this which I use the most. The more full-on sounds increase the depth of the chorus but do not change the rate - in fact there is no noticable phasing or tremelo-ing all the way up the range. For some reason - perhaps because of the price, I expected this to be cheap and slightly cheesey - that is not the case at all.

There is no perceived noise from the pedal.

I don't look to emulate other guitarist's sound but have been able to effectively reproduce the chorus'd parts of Starship Trooper by Steve Howe. (Given the fact that I don't play an ES 175 or Showman amps!)

There is a warmth and organic nature to the sounds, it reponds well to volume and attack changes and is transparent to the nuances of your playing style - no compression or decay 'grain' is evident. Individual notes sound through even in close-voiced chords.

I have played this both before and after my pre-amp and the effect sounds good in both positions - although a little less obtrusive in the parallel effects loop, obviously. Before any gain device (pre-amp or peddle) it does get slightly muddy especially if the gain is very harmonically rich (i.e.Big Muff Pi) but even here can sound good if there is 'space' for the chorus - maybe by using an equaliser. It's all a matter of opinion really, isn't it?

It really does stereo chorus very well - not something that I would use everytime but when I have plugged it in to two amps - my Laney Valve and Marshall Solid state - it just brings a smile to my face. In fact, with the pedal on the lowest setting, it's a very (cost) effective way to produce a stereo sound. In fact, writing this now make me think that this should be my 'go-to' clean set up.

Hmmm - when I get my Boss fixed, this will become my back-up because (and not unexpectedly given the price), the build quality does not fill me with good feelings.

The battery compartment is accessed by removing the footswitch hinge and this looks like a weak point. It's got a plastic case but it doesn't seem too bad - time will tell.

I like a nice, positive click when operating a footswitch and you don't get that. What you do get however is a couple of holes burned into your retinas as the laser-bright blue led switches on.

he he. I've bought ??150 boutique pedals where the customer service was sh1te. I don't think that I would get much help form Behringer. Easier just to buy a new pedal.

I play all styles using super-clean to medium drive sounds. A very slight chorusing is an essential part of my clean comping sound - particulary if no keyboard is present and there are largish gaps between the vocal lines. I tend not to use effects during during solos (other than Wah)

I've been playing for 25 years and have amassed tons of equipment most of which sits in a corner gathering dust. I always come back to my current chain, probably changing my amps more than anything.

As I have said this is really a cheap Boss CE2 but the Behringer can't be use to jack up your car should you need to change a wheel. I like it simplicity and above all the quality of sound/tone it produces. Some people may prefer more options such as a 'rate' control - not me though.

easiest pedal I own. 4 modes to choose from and combine between.
step on it - on. step on it again, off..

Well, behringer copies for BOSS pedals are known for lack in sound quality. I haven't played the BOSS DC-2 (the original pedal) but this little behringer copy sure does what is supposed to do.
I paid 27$ for it, and I got someting far more valuable.
Mode 1 - very gentle space chorus.
Mode 2 - a bit mor intense.
Mode 3 - even more.
Mode 4 - the most intense chorus.
you can combine between them all and get some really wierd sounds.
when no mode is selected but pedal on - there is still some very light chorus touch to the tone.

OVERALL - great! if it was more than just 27$, i'd say I would like a bit more clarity to the tone - just a touch.

Well, not an unbreakable unit - but I do belive it's reliable.
built with cheap parts. so ? I like it so far.

you know what? I need more time with the pedal for this category..
NO OPINION.

never dealed with.

My second Behringer pedal and I hope it's not my last because they are incredibly cheap - the value is unbelievable.

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!