Fulltone CF-1 Choralflange

I's easy to get a sound out of it. It's a guitar effects pedal. Were not talking about programming Robert Fripp's guitar set-up. The manual is ok. The manual says don't use any high output pickup's like humbuckers because it might overload the circuit. Boy, they were not kidding. This thing overloaded all over the place, even with the output trim knob turned all the way down. It "crackled" and "popped" all over the place.

I use a 1980 Les Paul custom Silverburst with Seymoure Duncan pickups and I plug it into a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier. This pedal does not sound good. Don't buy it. The chorus sounds worse than a boss pedal. The flanger is one of the weakest flangers I have ever heard. I don't see what the fuss is about this guitar pedal. It sounds thin and stale. Not to mention the overloading, popping, and crackling.

It never broke on me, but it "popped" and "crackled" all the time. Piece of junk. It weighs less than a Boss pedal. It feels like a piece of tin foil in my hand. The switch feels pretty flimsy also.

Don't buy anything from this guy. A local music store I shop at has also warned me of the B.S. they have to deal with when carrying his Fulltone products. I have read other reviews and it is my opinion that he has one the worst customer service on the planet. I was really dissapointed.

I was really dissapointed by the whole experience with Fulltone and Mike Fuller. I have been playing for 25 years and I have toured openig for bands like King Crimson, The Swans, Faith No More, Tool, Nirvana, The Melvins, Janes Addiction, and Sonic Youth. I sold this pedal on e-bay six months after I bought it direct from Mike Fuller. I tried to get a good sound out of it, but it would always make everything sound horrible. If you want the best sounding chorus pedal on the planet, get an Electro-Harmonix Stereo Polychorus or an Electro-Harmonix Small Clone. All of Electro-Harmonix pedals made in the past year are true bypass now and they have great customer support. I wish Mike Fuller luck, but I don't think he has what it takes considering his horrible customer service and his pedals that cost 3-4 times more than other pedals that sound better than his.

I found this thing to be very easy in getting great Choral/Flange Sounds with. I also noticed a distinct difference in all of the settings like the "Vintage-Style Chorus"//Compared to the "Transparent Chorus". I was able to also sort of take it where I wanted. Mine is set up like a Vintage but I backed down on the "Mix" just a tad and backed off just a couple of marks on the Depth and it remained strong but also kind of Transparent. I haven't really used the Rotating "Leslie" Speaker setting much. I tried it once using only Mono output and it I could tell it would be very effective with the right Amp combinations. The Manual is quick and to the point and shows you all you need in about a couple of Minuets. It's more like about 5 or 6 pages of neatly printed paper work. Not a text book. Basicly, this thing is as easy to use as any Chorus Model I have used such as MXR,Boss,Ibanez and TC. I give it a 10 for being right to the point and direct.

I would like to share this part of this evaluation if I may my personal experiences here because I truly feel that all of us here have this in common. And that my friend's are some sort of Amp combinations. A couple of years ago I bought a Line6 POD[A rack mount type-not kidney],..for my computer to record and just track with. Yeah....just to track with on some recording software. What happened was after setting up the sounds via "deep edit Mode" [a line6 thing] and playing it through my computer, i was in shock when I went back to my Marshall JCM 800 50 watter with the boost channel with spring reverb and my Fender Prosonic all tube 60 watter along with my Laney Toni Iommi Signature series and my Peavey 5150 head I couldn't beleive it!! i didn't like em anymore!! "?"
What was happening with my beautiful Amp's that I kept covered and retubed myself and did Bios Adjustments in?? I was Freakin out!
So to make a long story short here and back to the Subject I evolved to Two Line6 Pod Pro's running through 2 "Mesa Boogie" PR-90 Simul-Class Power amps that literally Breathed Life into my PODs! Feedback N all! Running into 4 JCM 900 Cabinets in stereo. I have the Pod settings on ole "Marshall Plexi" 50 watter's with Greenback 30's for speaker settings.
Running through those JCM900 Cabinets. I am amazed at my tone and control I have. I sold all my tube heads to help pay for it and I still like the tube heads but I feel like I have the best of both worlds set up like this. Feedback/Tone/Control/Quiet at will....
The Choral/Flange CF-1 is dead quiet! If I step on my "69" or the Boost switch on my FD-2 by Fulltone and stop playing you can hear that gain boost cycling through the Chorus and that is also very noticable in relationship to the CF-1's "Rate" knob. Good for a Jet effect or if your like me I mainly like the chorus for Chording and leads with Lower gain settings. The effect always sounds great!! Im talking about the CH-1! I used to use the Boss CE-5. I still have it. It is a nice Chorus pedal but if you can afford the Choral/Flange by Fulltone it will in my opinion Blow all others off the stage. I have used the TC,MXR,Boss,Ibanez and a few Rack Models. With my FD2[Fulltone Overdrive 2] pedal and "69" with various combinations I can get a Joe Satriani sound that I really dig and I also get a good Hendrix/Trower vibe with my Deluxe Fender Strats. I also use a Gibson Standard Cherry Sunburst Les paul and I purchased Mike Fuller's Waw replacement parts for my Vox 847! Man was that a smart move! now when I do "No Quarter" or when I use my strats and want that Vintage Hendrix sound with that Waw's new Range and True Bypass tone people's heads turn and check it out! Very good vibe!!
This works for me like I always wanted!
So I give it a 10. I have used many other decent brands and have been playing for 27 years. I about dropped a load in my pants when I discovered "Fulltone"!
I really have to give it a 10. It's as nice on the inside as the outside.

I can depend on it. Anything can break. Anything. I had a MXR go bad once. thats rare!
I use it in Gigs without backup. If it goes bad I can usually get by even though Im displeased. I know people don't always know what is happening. Thats life and I can deal with it. usually people who notice can see cause they are Musicians themselves. It's not a perfect world. I give it a 8 cause I haven't used it for years like MXR and Boss.
I am confident.

I ordered the "69" and the FD-2. I asked Mike Fuller about power Supply adapters for the units and even ordered some. he checked with me and made sure I understood what I was buying so I didn't have a problem. then the guy sent me one adapter I needed and said it's "Free" Enjoy! That was nice of him. he didn't have to do that.
Like i mentioned earlyer here I ordered the Clyde inductor coil and the POT and that Switch and used his diagram for the Vox 847 and it worked so sweet I don't see a need to buy a Clyde now.
All this stuff comes with his 5 year back up.
Thats better than most all others!

I play Rock and Blues and speedy Metal head banging when It' called for. I have been playing sonce I was 15 and Im 41. Through the years I have seen lots of gear and played through many set ups. I guess I mentioned what I owned above. I have experimented and had custom pedalboards made for my Line6 Modulation Modeler and Distortion Modeler and DD4 Delay Modeler. Digitech Wammy Pedal and Morley's waw waw's and DOD. I used to have an old Marshall And that was a JMP series with the old design that I bought in the 70's. I paid $847.64 for that head. the old paper Caps in it and the beautiful wiring that those companies did by hand then. And my Old Marshall Cabinet with Greem Back 30's. it was sweet.
If my CF-1 by Fulltone was stolen I would buy another one! It's my favorite by far!!
What I hate is the fact that I have spent a few thousand dollars on stomp boxes and have been told the truth regarding the lack of true bypass,cheaper parts,and what it will do to your tone. My favorite feature would have to be hard to say. Probably since the overall package is so well done but I would say it's choice parts and hand made craftsmanship making it's USA old fashoned quality come to life for me.
There is just one thing I want to say in all this great praise Im spitting out. Im a tight ass at heart. Kind but pretty hard headed in all actuality! I wouldn't say all this stuff if this wasn't the way it really is for me. Good things come and go. Heaven forbid if something happens from day to day in our newly troubled heavy populated political world.
My point is that if something were to happen to Mike Fuller and Fulltone was over it is my beleif that these hand signed hand made choice items would rise in value and price much like a great guitarist who dies and then everyone says hey"he was the best"!
We take it for granted.
Fulltone makes beautiful Musical tools that have fixed a long long time problem with my tone that I could never quite figure out.
it has been school for me.
there is always something to learn!
I found this Fulltone site on the internet by accident! Or fate. "?"

Im totaly pleased with Fulltone and have been able to downsize and simplify matters on the floor with my rig.
I will not run other brands with Fulltone. Except that Vox I rebuilt!
I have changed over to stay.
Great stomp boxes.
Expensive yes. America "we get what we pay for"

Can be a little tricky because there are 4 knobs that can be arranged in so many different combinations to produce so many different sounds. Just work with it a while and you'll find the sound your looking for. I would say that the pedal is easy to use though, you just have to fool with it to get the sound you want. (the manual provided is very helpful in guiding you in the direction you want to go)

I have a Les Paul 57' Historic Goldtop and an old Fender Princeton Reverb and would like to get a Twin. The pedal is so quiet and sounds great! Very transparent, lets your guitar's tone come right through. Just read a review of anyone else who has bought the pedal. It's great and definately falls into the Pristine sound quality category. Top of the line chorus.

Built to last.

Overall great pedal, would recommend it to anyone who wants an awesome chorus. The Choralflange is very natural sounding, not synthetic sounding like most choruses. The best!!! (I also bought a Fulldrive2 which also an awesome pedal) The only problem with this pedal is that it is a bit pricey! Other than that, it's great.

Very easy to use. How hard can it be to get a sound that YOU like??

Strat--->wah--->various overdrives (BJF Baby Blue, TS9/808 by Keely, Cold Fusion, Klon)--->choralflange. I use the Choralflange to get a Leslie sim, it does a pretty good job. I like the sound. I don't use chorus all that much, but I like the sound of the choralflange a lot, i might use it more now. There is a decent(not a hole lot) amount of volume boost cabaple. Very rich.

Built like a tank from what I can see.

Haven't dealt with Fuller yet. Heard mixed feelings about him though.

Pretty good. I would recommend it.

I wouldn't say it's easy to use. But that's not a problem. If it were easy it wouldn't be so flexible. It's pretty sensitive and you gotta know what the knobs do. The controls have different effects depending on how they're set because they all work together. The manual does a good job of explaining how it works and how to achieve the sounds you're hearing in your head.

Magnificent! Amazing! I can comfortably say that it's worth the money. It gives me all the chorus sounds of other pedals. Instead of having 1 good chorus effect I now have several plus high quality flanging. The flanging is almost as good as the chorus. I would not buy a separate flanger- this pedal has it down. In addition to having all the sounds I need (and more) this pedal literally adds to my tone. It does not bury my tone, it's like adding another layer. Perfect.

I've had it for a month, but it's very sturdy- metal construction.

Haven't spoken to them.

I would replace this pedal without looking at others. I know it delivers the sounds I want. I've been playing 17yrs. and I have owned stuff that was inferior because I was trying to cut corners. Usually, I end up unhappy with my budget driven decisions. I've learned to just wait til I can afford the product that most satisfies my needs. I was very skeptical of the price on this unit, but now that I've spent the money and used this device (live and studio) I don't even think about it. Last year I bought a Maxon AD900 and I feel the same way about that unit. This device is worth the money because it delivers big time.

It's very easy to use if you have worked with chorus pedals before. It has the usual controls, mix, depth, rate and delay time. Also has a tiny overall volume control that can be adjusted depending on how high you have the mix and depth controls set. There is a great amount of flexibility in this pedal, so like anything, at extreme settings things can get ugly, wild, different, etc. But if you are looking for a chorus or flange sound of any type, it is in this box.

This is a great sounding pedal. I have never really used a chorus pedal live before in the past because they always tend to sound over-processed, and tended to just stick out too far from my normal guitar sound. What I love about this pedal is it can be as subtle as I want it to be. Also the fact of in one box I can get chorus, flange and rotating speaker effects is a great space saver on my pedal board. In fact, I was using a Deja Vibe for the 2-3 songs that I needed a rotating sound on before this, but this pedal allowed me to save that space while acquiring 2 more sounds on my board. Some may view the price as being on the steep side, and maybe it is depending on where you are able to purchase. But for every pedal that I use today, I have purchased at least 5 different pedals just like it before I settled on what I use. During that experimentation process, I easily spent 3-4 times the price of the 1 pedal I ended up using for each type of effect. I know we have all heard the cliche', you get what you pay for, but I have found some obvious truth in that logic. Mike Fuller is an excellent guitar player himself, who happens to love Hendrix, Cream, Eric Johnson(fill in your blank with any great classic rock guitarist here), so he makes pedals to help emulate some of those great sounds. While every other manufacturer tries to do that as well, I feel where Mike really excells in that his pedals are geared towards playing live. Many of his pedals give you 2-3 distinct sounds, so be sure to give that some consideration when concerning yourself with price. My backup chorus pedals are the Maxon 550 and Voodoo lab analog chorus. While these are good pedals, when I lined them up side by side the CF1 just seemed richer in sound to me. And once again, the flexibility in sound is just great. I have tried the pedal in front of my amps and in the effects loop. The chorus sounded equally good in both places, but the flange tends to get lost in the loop. On my setup I found I needed to have the flange in front of the amp. That is usually true of flanges though. The pedal is whisper quiet.

If you read this site, then you learn that evidently you either love or hate Mike Fuller and his customer support. I have never spoken or dealt with him personally. The only thing I can say is he appears to take great pride in what he makes, and I benefit from that. My pedal board looks like an advertisement for his products, but it only became that way from alot of trial and error, and then settling on the pedals that gave me the sound I was hearing. Alot of that is the interaction between my guitars, amps and the pedals.I do not gig with backups. While I have quite a few pedals, if a pedal breaks, I can always get by without using it for the rest of the night. With that being said, I have never had a fulltone pedal go out on me in the 3 years since I have been using them.

See above comments. The manual for the CF1 was very informative. All I ask from a manufacturer is that they give me some guidelines for a starting point with their product. It should be up to me to fine tune things for my setup. Nobody's gear setup will sound the same, so you cannot expect certain settings to sound the same for everyone.

I play Blues, Rock, Jazz and Funk. My signal path leaves a Strat, one with EMG SA's or Seymour Duncan passives, then goes into a Fulldrive2, Ultimate Octive, Clyde deluxe Wah, Supa-Trem, ChoralFlange, Ernie Ball Volume, into the front of the amp, either 6L6, EL34 or EL84 variety, depending on type of gig. In the effects loop I have an Ibanez ADL analog delay, and a boss DD3 digital delay. As you can tell, I like the Fulltone products. They sound great, they are solid, and they seem to really be geared for live playing. But don't get me wrong, I'm not in love with everything they put out. I have tried and taken back the Distortion Pro, 69, 70 and Fatboost pedals. Not because they weren't great pedals though, just because they didn't fit in exactly with my sound, or didn't get along with my other equipment the way I would have liked. The Fulldrive and the Fatboost crossed enough of the same boost territory that I didn't need both. Anyway, for chorus or flange, I have found the pedal to last me for a long time. It seems that so many people get caught up in whether or not a pedal sounds exactly like so and so. I really don't care too much about that. I can usually evaluate a pedal by how often I keep stepping on it when I play. And by no means am I a chorus junkie. In a 3 hour gig I may only use this pedal for 20-30 minutes, and sometimes in small doses. But when I do use it, I am very pleased, and that's what it's all about.

This pedal is very easy to use. You can great sounds at the extremes and is very straightforward with it's use. The one downside is that in order to switch from Chorus to Flanger or from Narrow to Wide, you have to bend over to switch it with your hands rather being able to switch it on the fly.

Great sound! The Chorus is the best I've ever used and the pedal is SILENT... NO BUZZ AT ALL! I love it.

I haven't had it for long (only 3 weeks), but it's built with metal casing and I would feel extremely comfortable taking this to a gig without any type of backup. I give it a 9 rather than 10 only because it's so new.

I haven't dealt with the company at all and hopefully won't have to, but the Manual is very detailed.

Right now I use a Maxon OD-820 Overdrive Pro, Maxon CP101 Compressor, Boss Tuner, Boss Octave (looking to upgrade), 95Q Cry Baby Wah, and now the Fulltone Choralflange. As I stated above, I love this pedal and would definately recommend it to other guitarists!

Easy to get great sounds, not so easy (yet) to understand how to get specific great sounds. But, many great sounds at each turn of each knob... many are subtle and all but a few extremes are very musical... would appreciate a "where to start" instruction on how to create specific tonal qualities (I bet Mike knows and with more use so will I).

I play 62 Reissue Strat - Fulldrive2 - ChoralFlange - '77 Silverface Deluxe Reverb (w/ Celestion Vintage 30)

... pedal is not just quiet, it is silent... esp beneath the low-level buzz of my vintage-esque single coils...

Strange, but my first stage opportuinty was a Leslie sound... The CF-1 had very nice Leslie sounds... playing alone, the more subtle tones (most are more subtle than the leslie) are addictive... easy to see why amateurs like myself overuse chorus... it just sounds so full... (at least I'm aware of the draw towards the pit)...

seems solid... however, uneasy about design that insists that EXACTLY 9 volts be provided for good-sounding flanger (too much variation in batteries)... but at least Sri Fuller provided a regulated 9V power adapter.

Mike Fuller has been very responsive via e-mail (on even trivial questions)... but I certainly detect a heavy "buyer beware" in his exchange/return statements....

The ChoralFlange sounds are beautiful, even on my old tube amp which has exposed many other pedals' tonal deficiencies ... but at 4x the price ? ... if it were 1.5x the price it would get a 10 (ok, so I'm Scottish)

Why does a Rolex keep great time or a BMW handle so great? They are well designed..So is the Fulltone Choral Flange..Simply the best sounding pedal money can buy. Such a transparent transition when you engage this pedal its incredeble..I have owned every boutique Chorus and Flanger made..nothing come close to the Fulltone

Fulltone pedals are built to last..very reliable indeed..I have been using Mike's pedals for 6 yrs now..great stuff..

Mike is a very nice guy who takes the time when he's not busy to address any concerns with great care and expertise..

A+

Very easy to use , with a wide range of sounds

I just got the newest version, The difference is tons more headroom to accommodate all pickups and active electronics , also fulltone states " Huge rich chorusing massive flanging, well they were right on , This thing is bad ass and does the sweetest leslie sim. I have heard yet ... COOL

I think it will last a long time , I also own a fulltone fulldrive and that is top quality and has never broke down that is about 4 years old

Fulltone Rocks they help me alot with the purchase of this pedal and were right on the money no bs!

The Best chorus / flanger / leslie sim. I have ever played , it is so natural and rich I can use it in so many more situations than those processed metallic chorus pedals that I have used in the past , also blows away my TC pedal , This is the Baddest,Coolest , Sweetest , Drippy wet Chorus EVER!!!