Fulltone CF-1 Choralflange

I find this unit clearly marked and highly adjustable. The manual is adequate, and helps you get quality sounds right away. It also provides hints as to how to adjust the parameters for changing those "bread and butter" sounds readily.

I am using this with a Parker Nitefly going into either a Mesa IIC+ or Triaxis head. With both amps, I use the CF in the effects loop.

I find the unit remarkably quiet, the exception being when I switch to single coils on the Parker, and at that point the unit effects the ground noise from the pickups; it's not the CF's fault. My guess--but I have not tried this--is that with my Les Paul Deluxe the unit would be sonically invisible.

There's a whole lot of sounds in this pedal, and the sound quality is excellent. As one accustomed to digital chorus and flange, it is a pleasant change to work with the analog circuitry. It's very warm and rich sounding, and, to my ears, changes the natural sound of the instrument very, very little. It has a wonderful complexity to the sound, too, that I really appreciate.

It's hard to imagine something much better or much more versatile in a unit this size!

I feel quite certain I can depend upon it. It's built very well and, for the light duty use I give it, should last as long as me.

I have not dealt with Mr. Fuller, but I did drop him a note and he replied quickly. So, good correspondence. I have no reason at all to think his support would be anything less than excellent, and every reason to believe it would be.

I have been playing for 32 years now, in most genres except jazz. I appreciate high quality gear, and try to make wise purchases when I do buy something new. I've had choruses before, and use Lexicon gear in my studio, so my ears have heard a variety of units before. I like this one very much, and believe I will continue to like more and more as the years go on. It's definitely a great piece. In the studio I'll probably continue to use my PCM80 for guitar tracks, because it is so rich and, well, so right. Yet the CF appears and sounds to me to be a first-rate device, and I really, really like what it does to my live sound.

So, I'm very happy with it, and would commend it to anyone seeking a chorus pedal. And, to add just one other note, I felt so good purchasing this unit, knowing it was made in the USA. My purchase price no doubt went to help people in our midst instead of lining the pockets of some greedy executive importing inferior products made by people in other countries working for a pittance. I tip my hat to Mr. Fuller for making a quality unit at a reasonable, made-in-America price.

Fulltone pedals, the CF-1 included, typically take a bit of tweaking to get dialed-in (IMO), but when you do, WHOA! Switching between chorus & flange takes tweaking, but I wouldn't expect the same settings to carry-over! I dabbed a few different colored spots with marker on the face-plate marking my standard settings. The "manual" is fine for the little time its actually used....the fine tuning is done by ear. The battery cover is tricky to get off!

Fender '58 Strat, '70 LP Custom (with Fralins), Menatone Blue Collar, Boss DD-5, Fulltone CF-1 (last in chain), mono/stereo thru a Fender Vibrolux Custom (Weber P10Q's), '58 Tweed Tremolux, '58 Gibson GA-6. I'd lived without chorus for many years, heard the others (TC, Carl Martin, cheap junk pedals)& wasn't moved. Plugged into a CF-1 and bought it on the spot. I only use chorus sparingly, so its most important feature is the buffered by-pass is totally transparent! When using chorus, the CF-1 (mono or stereo) is bright, full, rich and warm. The stereo chorus effect is awsome.

In a year of use, nothing has caused me to doubt its reliability. It's never failed in rehersals, studio or gigging. It's well built!

Have not needed customer support.

I rarely add comments to product reviews. If I do, I won't put anything out here until I've owned/used a product for a year. In the year I've owned/used the FullTone CF-1, I've been very pleased with my purchase. There's a few little quirks about the pedal, but sound is everything and the CF-1 has the sound I wanted!!!! Yea, its pricey, but how much cash do ya waste buying cheap pedals that didn't cut it? If stolen, I'd buy another in a heart-beat.

I find chorus in general difficult to use well. It is often a fairly subtle effect. Too little and you won't even notice it. Too much and you are in a world of mud. This is especially true for my application bass guitar. So, like most choruses, it took me a while to find a sound I like. With this chorus you can tweek many parameters, so it makes it harder to work with. You sort of need to know how the knobs interact. One thing I noticed is that the rate knob has a much wider range of control than many choruses. At the slowest setting you would have enough time to make tea between peaks!

I glanced at the manual. The settings were mostly for guitar applications. It didn't bother me much because I have used choruses before. Still it took a lot of work to get a good sound. I am marking it low here, cause this is not for the novice pedal user. I figure that if you are looking at a $300 pedal you are not a novice.

I am using this in a bass amp rig. I have a very high-end all tube bass rig. (Kern IP-777, Aguilar DB 728, SWR Megoliath, if that means anything to you.) I have spent a ton of time and dollars on my sound. I expect the same from my pedal effects. (Got lot's of these too.) The sound is sort of between an Electro-Harmonix Poly-chorus and an old Boss CE-1. It has the warmth, and richness of the PC, and the shimmer of the CE-1. It replaced a Poly-chorus in my rig. The PC can be great for bass. (Sting and Jaco both used them.) But I often found it to be too thick. This pedal is much more transparent, like a TC Electronics, but much warmer. It also has some of the top-end chimminess of a CE-1 which is great for giving definition to very low notes. As I mentioned earlier, the controls have a very large range, so it is easy to get a wide variety of sounds from it. I do miss the feedback control that was on the Polychorus, but not by much. I wish it had a tone control.

The unit is built extremely well. I think it can take a lot of use. On the other hand when you own a very expensive pedal like this, you tend to be much more careful with it.

This unit was defective. It was repaired under warrantee without a hitch. Mike Fuller really listened to what I had to say and fixed it. The guy stands behind his products.

So here is where I give you a bit of history on this pedal. I bought the pedal from Fatsound Guitars about a year ago. I was using a Polychorus at the time and needed something capable of a more subtle sound. I got the unit and played with it for some time. It was nice sounding, but I felt I was scooping out some of the mid-range tone from my bass. (I am in the old-school camp of bass players, so I tend to like thick, warm bass.) It also had too much top end chime. Also, when the effect on, but there was no input, I would hear a noticeable swirling. I just spent $300 on it, so I tried very hard to like it. (You know how that goes.) Anyway, my guitarist, Tom, listened to it. He knows Mike personally, as they were roommates for a couple of years. Tom said there must be something wrong, Mike would never manufacture something like that. So, at his suggestion I sent it back. I sent Mike an email explaining my POV. I told him that I missed the warmth and thickness of the Polychorus. A couple of weeks later I got it back. The repair tech told me that there was a bad resistor or something. Anyway, when I got it back, this thing was beautiful. It was extremely quiet and it had a richer, thicker sound. I used to think this pedal was a big cold and sterile sounding like the TC Electronics SCF. After I got it back my opinion completely changed. I am very happy with it now.

this is the best pedal i've ever owned. thank god the manual has recommended settings in it, i've had difficulty trying settings from scratch by myself. HOWEVER, this is not a negative. follow the assembly directions, kiddies, and you're good to go. the manual is excellent, easy to read, with acceptable pictures.

although it's recommended as last in you effects path before the amp, i am using is sucessfully in the effects loop. signal path: guitar, ernie ball volume, voodoo labs sparkle drive, voodoo labs tremelo, budda bud wah+, bogner ecstacy 101b. loop has choralflange. power comes from a voodoo labs pedal power (recommended by mike).

this pedal is clean. i mean absolutely clean. i mean ABSOLTUTLEY clean. did i repeat myself? this pedal adds NO noise, NONE, no matter how much gain i have. NOTHING.

the chorus is pristine, cleanest of any pedal or rack mount i've ever tried. my favorite setting is the recommended 'vintage chorus' sound with the rate turned up a little past the recommended postion. PHAT. ran this thing last week through two mesa dual rectifier half stacks on clean, blew my mind. i have NEVER heard a chorus like this in my 20+ years of playing.

when operated in stereo mode, you don't get true bypass. this is controller by a four switch dip that is easily accessable under the lid. still very transparent in this mode when the chorus isn't active.

in mono this beast is also excellent.

i don't really use flange, but the flanging is good. very 'ain't talking about love' -ish, with lots a control.

this thing is a friggin' tank.

i've had 3-4 e-mails to fulltone, and one phone call. mike is great and responsive. incredibly technically competent. i've read a lot of negative feeback on this guy, and in my opinion, if mike wasn't very friendly to you, your probably one of those typical fucking idiots i've met who has a pea for a brain. i wouldn't give you the time of day either.

i will always have this pedal. if i lose it, i'll get another. i'm looking to get the fat boost to replace my sparkle drive, which i only use as a clean volume boost now. i also had the opportunity to try the cylde wah deluxe, great pedal. someday i'll replace my budda bud wah+ with this.

You pretty much can't get a bad sound out of this thing. Much better than the cheesy boss choruses. Invest the money and get this!

I have a great rig, and this chorus makes it sound that much better. I run a Gibson Custom Pat Martino, Sadowsky Custom Strat and a Steinberger GL4T into a Voodo Lab SparkleDrive, then into a Prescription Electronics Experience, then into a Fulltone DejaVibe and finally into a Fulltone ChoralFlange. From their, I do stereo out. One side goes out to a killer Rivera Fandango and the other side either goes into my old Marshall Super Lead, or if I'm recording it goes direct into a Pod Line 6 into the board.

The key to the great sound is the stereo out of the chorus (last in the chain) into 2 amps. Boy does that sound great.

Tough as nails.

Best chorus in the world. Sounds particularly great with the DejaVibe.

There are lots of adjustable peramiters on this unit, extremely flexable. Chorus and Flanger settings react in there own distinctive way when you turn the knobs. they seem to have completely seperate routings, it's literally like there are two seperate pedals built into one unit with common adjustable peramiters (very nice). Not like some Electro Harmonics stuff which tries to pack 3 different effects into one box and ,usually, only one works the way it should! this pedal is factory set as a stereo unit and there are adjustable switches inside which enable you to set it up as a "mono" unit. The mono setup makes it true bypass and the stereo setting is buffered (I think?). Anyway it's very easy to use, I haven't even looked at the manual yet but I'm getting some great results with minimal effort so far...

I've placed this pedal in the effects loop of a Bogner Shiva Head along with a Maxon AD900 analog delay (Sweeet pedal) and the Mooger Fooger 12 stage phaser (smooth...) there are various pedals on the front end too (FT Clyde Deluxe wah, FT Fulldrive 2, ZVEX Fuzz Factory, FT Supa Trem (sexy) and ZVEX Super Hard On). I run all this stuff through a 2x12 Bogner Cab and it's to die for when using my 58 Esquire Tele or Gibson Les Paul Custom! More specifically the CF-1 sounds full and fat (organic) I can get any chorus sound I need with this pedal. It can be very transparent or thick and in texure. It's really though to get a bad sound out of this pedal, just sounds beutiful. The flanger is also amazing, oh the things this pedal is capable of doing and sounding like is behond my wildest dreams. I also have an Analog Clone Clon, which in it's own right is very nice, but it's been retired as a back-up unit since the CF-1 entered my rig. these pedals are worlds apart in terms of versitility. The CC give a nice thick classic and a bit of a darker tone...with the CF-1 I can cover all the bases from classic traditional to modern chorus sounds. This pedal is worth having in my rig, no dought!

built like an iron block, but not too heavy! pots and jacks are top notch and internal craftsmanship is impecably hand wired.

I've heard good things, never dealt with mike though.

Get this pedal if you need A) complete versitility B)the most beutiful chorus sounds immaginable C)a well built and reliable unit that's built for the road D)studio quiality chorus! Costa allot but worth it! If it were lost or stolen I'd have to sell of my Analog Man to buy another one. Try one and wonder how you've lived without it for so long.

Well its not hard to get a good sound out of it, and when you do it really sounds fantastic, but what really bothers me about this unit is that when you need to switch from Chorus to Flange or vice versa, you have to bend down and flick the little toggle switch with your hand. Why didn't he just add another foot switch instead, or better yet make two seperate pedals.
I did not read the manual because I was testing this pedal at a local music store that had it in stock. After testing it I was torn between the sweet sound and the fact that there was not foot switch to go back and forth between Flange and Chorus.

Sound quality. Its what everyone else says. Fantastic!

Don't know!

Don't know!

Lots of options, but pretty easy to use if you're familiar with Chorus/Flange units. The manual is pretty easy to use, but it was printed on a laser printer that was running out of toner. Ironic considering the incredible quality of Fulltone effects. The controls are pretty straight forward, and there are dip switched in the battery compartment for either buffered output (for running in stereo and/or driving long cables back to your amp) or true-bypass mode, which takes the unit completely out of your signal chain when the effect is switched off. Note that in true bypass mode, you can only run the effect in mono.

Various guitars (Strat, LP, PRS, Ibanez...)-> Carl Martin Comp/Limiter->Cry Baby->Triple Rectifier (3ch) with (2) 212 Genz Benz G-Flex cabs. The ChoralFlange is in the Recto's loop followed by an Alesis NanoVerb. I run the ChoralFlange in true bypass mode and my recto's loop on 100% wet (using the mix control on the ChoralFlange which worked the best for me). When bypassed, you'd never know its there. When the effect is on, the dimension of the Chorus is uncredible deep and rich. Even on subtle, somewhat transparent settings, you can almost feel this pedal breath. Simply the most musical chorus I've ever heard. I originally purchased the Carl Martin Chorus xII, which was had less of a personality and was much more like a HiFi chorus...too sterile. It was a nice Chorus, but I upgraded to the Fulltone originally because you have only depth and speed control on the Carl Martin, but you have Mix, Delay Time, Depth and Rate (in addition to Chorus/Flange switch, a Wide/Narrow switch and a gain control). I needed the mix control and gain control to tweak the unit to match the Recto's FX loop which is in my opinion, comprehensive but also a pain in the ass when using simplified effects that lack input, output and mix controls. Also, the ChoralFlange's input seems more suited to effects loops than those that are optimized for guitar-level inputs.

I'd say this is one of the best built pedals I have ever seen. I have no worries this will outlast me, so I gig without a backup. One thing that annoyed me is that the battery hatch doesn't quite fit correctly, you have to apply a lot of pressure to get it to slide in on one side. What worries me is that the problem is because of too little room between the casing on one side of the batter hatch and one of the potentiometers inside...but this has been only an annoyance and not a problem.

Never had to deal with Fulltone. But I'll tell you what...from what I see on the website, I get the feeling this guy is awfully cocky, and I feel like I'd be bothering him if I ever needed anything. I could be reading into this, but check out the site and some of Mr. Fuller's comments, and you'll see what I mean. I guess I understans this though, because this guy is an absolute genius in his field...I've got a list of his products I "fully" intend to purchase.

Yup, this is the bomb, and the jewel in my rig. It somehow is the one piece of equipment I get the most enjoyment out of using. It has its own personality. It looks good, its built great, and the sound is the Holy Grail of Chorus for guitar. It is suitable for all syles of music (I play everything). This thing was not cheap, but is truly is worth evey penny and proof that you get what you pay for, in this case, the finest chorus unit on earth.

Very easy to use, some of the controls take a bit of getting used to, but it's not a very steep learning curve...especially considering the sample suggestions from Fulltone and the overall sounds from the unit. Very good chorus effects, excellent flanging effects.

I'm using the Choralflange on my pedalboard alongside a Fulltone Fulldrive 2, Teese RMC1 Wah, Line 6 Filter Modeler, Ibanez Delay, Voodoo Lab Pedal Power, Korg G4 Leslie simulator, and a true-bypass loop switcher for some of the non-true bypass pedals. Guitars include various Fenders, a PRS, and Tom Anderson. The amps are Dr Z and Rivera. The verdict? This is the best flanger I've ever encountered--just make sure you use the Fulltone power supply for best results. The unit is amazingly quiet and does not change or suck your tone--it just adds great flanging to whatever you've already got goin' on! The subtle flange effects are my fave. The chorus effects are also quite astounding, but I haven't used as many chorus pedals as flangers, so I don't have as good a point of reference on the chorus side of things. One of the other reviewers mentioned Leslie simulation; I have owned numerous Leslie simulators, and while the Choralflange is great for a faster Leslie, it does not nail all the nuances of a Leslie at slower speed, especially when you want flexibility with microphone placement. I'm a stickler so I still use a separate Leslie sim for that sort of thing...so if you're looking for that George Harrison/Peter Frampton slow Leslie vibe in one pedal, ya might be better off with a Rotosphere or something...but chances are, whatever it is will not be as quiet and full as the Choralflange. I guess I use mine mostly for flanging, but it's a great chorus pedal as well. I've used it in both mono and stereo modes and it excels at both; live, I'm using it strictly mono for right now. I try not to dish out 10's, but the sound quality of this pedal is righteous.

I recently had a switch go on my FD2 in the middle of a gig. These Fulltone pedals are phenomenally well-built, but nothing is bulletproof. Fortunately, Mike stands behind his products and is always making improvements.

Emails are answered quickly, service is great--zero hassles. Be a pro and don't waste his time. I busted a switch on my FD2 and he mailed me two new (better) switches for free, arrived at my door within a couple of days. Right on.

A very useful, musical pedal. Very flexible. If you're thinking about dropping some stupid cash on a serious chorus or flanger, I'd strongly suggest the Choralflange. I lucked out and found one slightly used. My style is mostly classic r'n'r, blues, funk, jazz. Added bonus is that for such a big sound and for the versatility, the Choralflange takes up less valuable real estate on my pedalboard than originally anticipated (it's about the same size as the FD2). Impressive stuff, and you'll find yourself wanting to flange more often, as this pedal is capable of some great subtle textures in addition to full-on flanging.

Its easy to get a good sound out of the Chorus offerings. There's an incredible range of sounds on offer with just tiny adjustments. The leslie settings are particularly adaptable, altering the rate by just a mil is enough to turn it from being very vibrato to shimmery then back to chorus. The flange settings are more tricky, I found them harder to set up than the chorus, more liable to be overly wild, then again, this is a personal taste thing.

1999 ES-335 -> 94 Twin. Along with the choralflange I use Roger Mayer's superb Voodoo Bass, std dunlop wah, DD-7 Ibanez Delay (rarely now though, surprisingly good for the price). I also use a tweaked korean squier strat on occassion (korean parts were useless, american parts fitted).

No noise, I mean it, zero noise, even with the squier. This pedal is silent (when used with a REGULATED adapter). The leslie is ASTONISHING, the best I've ever heard. The Little Wing intro done with the leslie and some of the twins spring reverb through the vintage clean channel gives the most awesome warm fat dripping sound I have heard, the leslie and chorus range on this pedal will blow your mind and it compliments the ES-335 very well. The quality stays even with the ES-335's high output classic 57's on 10. Variety is also abound with this pedal. The flange is also warm (not metallic at all) but the subtler flange sounds are a bit limited and they take time to set up. I also found that the flange sounds are very susceptable to voltage quality, must use a DC regulated adapter, this helped but the flange range is still a bit wild for my tastes, I can get 2 or 3 decent settings from the flange. The flange lets it down, refer to my customer support comments with regard to flange sounds and high pitched wobbles. Its this flange problem which forces me to give it a 9, if it did not have this problem it would have got an easy 10.

Think tank......the pedal body is amazing, looks good and is very strong, clearly crafted by caring people with serious skill. The only issue I have is with the switch, its plastic, almost like one of those nasty laptop nipple things, except a bit bigger, and although its surrounded by a rubber protector it doesn't look sturdy long term. Give this pedal a chunky big metal switch please !

I e-mailed Mr Fuller several times, it started out great, answered the questions, my last mail about the flanger issues did not get responded to. But hey, he is but one man with only 24 hours in the day.

Basically I feel that the pedal needs to ship with more information about how the flange settings can be made less extreme, sometimes the flange emits a high pitched wobble, almost like a lengthened wobbly sonar bleep. This is partly solved by having a DC regulated adapter, but in my case not entirely, its still there. I'll try and e-mail again though. Mr Fuller did say that he should have included instructions about trimmers. I'd like them please !

Plus Mr Fuller needs to "persuade" his pedal resellers in the UK to sell the pedal with a DC regulated adapter. Peach Ideas in Essex, UK sold me the pedal with a cheaper Danelectro non-regulated version, easy mistake, but.........I doubt Mr Fulller would approve ! I know I should have spotted it but you cannot spot everything and I was gagging to get the pedal home and into my full set up ! Lesson is never let your widdling instincts win whilst in the shop, test it, think with your head not fingers then go wild at home.

I play blues, rock and some jazz. Been playing for about 15 years, had a 4 year period without playing though. You're not reading this to hear about my tastes in music so.......

I would buy it again, its worth the money. I love the leslie and chorus but the flange can be annoying sometimes (Refer to customer support comments about high pitched wobbles !). The leslie is the best I've heard, I doubt anything can beat it, digital certainly won't. Its just so warm, the chorus is almost as warm and theres no synthetic edge like you get with some pedals.

I compared this pedal to the voodoo vibe, the quality was about the same but the vibe had I think 7 switches and its huge....it just isn't usable for me in gig situations, plus the simplicity of the choralflange and the mind blowing quality of the leslie won me over.

Its improved the overall sounds I can offer in the band I play in. As I said, the Little Wing intro with added choralflange leslie really grabs attention and feedback on it has been very positive. You can cover a whole range of material with this pedal, blues, jazz, rock it can all benefit from what the choralflange has to offer, piercing single coil or thumping humbucker, it can handle it with ease, overall its a superb pedal and well worth its price. Its classy craftmanship at its best.