Voodoo Lab Analog Chorus

2 easily control knobs, out of the box and ready to go. The knobs are much faster than many traditional boss type knobs, but they are good.

Its rather silent. I turn it on, and I get that goodness only an Analog chorus could give me. I tryed both knobs all the way up, and it gave me such an awesome Leslie effect. Try putting the knobs up like I did, and then ethier throw on a tremolo pedal, or do what I did do volume swells with a volume pedal. On the other settings, it gives a textured sound. One bad part was, that it boosted my volume a lot, so when I threw on my distortion pedal with it, I had to lower the volume of the distortion.

I have the pedal power, and now I have the chorus, and they are the two best pedals that I have. The pedal has a nice click when I put it on, to know I am doing it right. These are the best products bar none. I would definetly gig without a backup

I just got off the phone with them, and they are the best people outside of maybe Gibson. Very friendly, and the good part is that they all knew each other. I knew a customer support guy there, when I got my pedal power, and when I got on the phone with somebody else, they knew who I was talking about, and they told me when he was coming in tommorrow

I play blues, rock, alt, everything, and this pedal is good for anything. I have been playing for 6 years now, and this is the best chorus I have ever used, its a great buy. I don't know if I would buy it again if it was stolen, it was $140, but I got a good deal with no shipping or taxes. I got it from Guitartrader.com, check them out, they have the best prices on Voodoo Lab stuff. It kicks the crap out of anything I have tried, yet I have not tried the Ibanez classic chorus, which I have heard it very good

Two knobs, a footswitch in/out/power and led. One knob is for rate(speed of chorus) the other for intensity(how powerful of chorus). Easy for me to adjust various ranges.

Here lies the rub. I'm going against the grain of the other reviews in order to warn all you folks out there who actually want a chorus for something other than jazz or pretty acoustic guitar work. I play clean once in a while but then I also like putting a little to a lot of tone to my guitar sounds. This pedal will not give you any usable sounds with any tone beyond clean at any setting except off! The weakest distortion pedal I own is an Ibanez TS-9/808 mod. turned to any gain setting with this chorus sounds bad. Well the same holds true for high gain distortion pedals all the way to a Boss MT-2 or Ibanez SM-9 for that matter. So if Randy Rhoads and Kurt Cobain are your guitar gods or Jimi for that matter don't waste your hard earned money on this pretty for clean sounds box. Buy a Boss CE-2 or Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory instead which can be used with distortion. I give this pedal a 10 for clean and a not usable for tone beyond clean for a average of somewhere in the middle. Go ahead and hate it but thats how it turned out for me.
Oh yeah the pop sound when the pedal is stepped on gets old. Remember it only sounds good for nice pretty clean quiets parts then POP oops I meant to sound like that! Sure, I get it...go out and buy all effects with real bypasses that's the problem with my setup, yeah right good answer.

Seems sturdy enough except for the snappy cheap springy feel of the (POP) footswitch. But then again the new MXR switches are about the same so I would have to see if it stands the test of time. MXR's switch still seem more sturdy.

Never needed them got the POP solution if you call replacing all your stuff with true bypass a solution from here.

I sold it and thanked Joe Satriani that no one else knows better yet and got most of my money back and bought a clone theory instead. EH is much more usable for ALL types of music played so is the Boss CE-2 you can get them for $50 bucks on auction sites. If you play just clean then BUY this lush sounding pedal otherwise think again and buy something else more useful.
Sometimes it is as if the guys who built this box are the ones who praise it so highly! The thing wasn't flexible enough for my playing tastes.

Very easy to use. Unit has: one input/out output jack- one on/off switch- one LED- one external power port and speed and intensity knobs. Can't get much easier than this.

Signal Chain To Date: 52 Reissue Tele with ancient Evans Pull String Bender- Maxon Comp.- Boss EQ- Voodoo Analog Chorus- Boss TU-2 tuner- Maxon Analog Delay. This signal is next fed to a fully restored 1965 Fender 85 Watt Showman head with Mullard Mil. Spec. preamp tubes and Philips NOS 7581A output tubes. Speaker cabinet is finger jointed pine with "floating baffle board" - 1 X 12" JBL-E 120 speaker. (Cabinet is a custom job done by Rodgers and is covered in rough blonde tolex with maroon grill.)

I can not really say enough about the sound of this wonderful pedal! This has got to be the best chorus available in a stomp box format. The number of diff. sounds that can be tweaked out of those two simple knobs are incredible!!!!!!! This is the quintessential analog chorus.

Too early to tell... Production values look very good. Unit looks like it can take many years of use and abuse by working musicians.

Love the hard wire bypass feature. When you hit the switch, your signal is out of it. Does not seem to degrade my signal at all. It enhances my tone rather than harms it. To date, I have a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power and this Analog Chorus and I love them both. If lost, I would find it...If stolen, I would steal it back.

Love the organic/lush/deep/hi-fi sound this thing has. Do yourself a big favor and get one ASAP.

So far I haven't found a bad sound in this pedal. It can't get much easier than 2 knobs.

I'm using this after a Wah, 2 x TS-808's, MXR 100 and a BOSS BF-2 then into a black face twin with a STRAT(DiMarzio VV's) and it doesn't make a sound. The true bypass makes the world of difference. I replaced a BOSS CH-1 with this and all of sudden a world of sparkle came to light. With intensity at full and speed an 9 o'clock it breaths beautifully. Now I need to replace the BF-2 with maybe a Micro Vibe or a Deja Vibe II.

Effect cases don't get much stronger than these.

I emailed a few questions, unrelated to this unit, to VOODOO LABS and get a response the very next day from the president, Josh Fiden. I don't think I'd have a problem with support if I needed it. Because of this type of reponse I will definitely look at the VOODOO stuff 1st.

I play everything from dreamy, jazzy stuff to in front of the net in your face rock & roll and so far this seems to be the perfect match.

This unit is very simple and straightforward: one knob to control intensity (depth) and one knob to control speed: classic analog chorus control knobs. The one page manual suggests a few obvious settings: intensity and speed between 11:00 and 2:00 for "normal" chorus, intensity and speed maxed for "Leslie" sound. Bottom line - the unit is very easy to adjust and can be easily done so during performance, especially if you set the box on your amp top to patch it into effects loop.

I'm using this chorus box with a '52 reissue Tele going through a Fender Concert amp (Rivera designed, 2 10s, 60 watt). Additionally I'm using a Danelectro DE-1 Dan-Echo, Fulldrive2 and/or TS-10 Tube Screamer (modded by Analog Mike). I have not been using the Voodoo Lab Analog Chorus in the COncert's effects loop, as I bridge the send and return jacks with a short patch cord, which adds variable gain and volume going to the power section, adjusted by the amp's send and return knobs. I'm running the chorus pedal after the Fulldrive2 and before the Danelectro delay pedal, athen into the Concert's input. The pedal is quiet running and has a true bypass footswitch. When I first obtained it I noticed a loud and objectionable "pop" whenever I turned the unit on or off. I emailed Voodoo Lab and they suggested that running their pedal in line with pedals without a true bypass might result in noise when engaging the unit. I had been using this pedal along with the Ibanez Tube Screamer, which doesn't have true bypass. Problem is alleviated by using my Fulldrive2, but users take note: if you typically use old, vintage effects you may experience audible pops with the Analog Chorus' foot switch. That said, I must admit that this is easily the best sounding chorus box I've ever owned and it sounds better to me than rack-mount digital units I have tried in my rig, e.g. Quadraverb. The sound is open and very sweet with clean/overdriven amp settings, I don't particualrly think that chorus effects ever sound really great with distortion tones. With the intensity at 12:00 and the speed maxed, I get a very shimmering and fairly subtle chorus effect that is useful on ballads and sounds great with sustained chords. The "Leslie" setting sounds good too, although it's not as generally useful as less extreme settings. Both knobs at 12:00 yields great-sounding standard chorus tones, useful just about anywhere. The unit seems to boost the highs a tad, as well as volume; I don't find this objectionable in the slightest. Very musical tones, very useful range, great sound quality.

This unit seems well built, although I'm not an expert in electronics. I don't take a backup; however I don't feel chorus is a deal killer. If the pedal failed I'd just play without it.

Emailed Voodoo Lab about the popping noise described above. They responded the next day with the suggestion that solved the problem. They offered, at the same time, that if their suggestion didn't rectify the problem, to give me a return authorization number. This proved unneccessary. Pretty responsive, I'd say.

This pedal replaced a Danelectro Cool Cat chorus pedal which I thought was fairly mediocre. I had one other cheap Lab Series chorus pedal I used for years; I also used my Qudraverb for a time for chorus effects. This pedal sounds superior to all of them. The other guitarist in my band uses an old Boss chorus pedal, a CE-1, I think. I used to envy his chorus sound, but now I think I have something that equals or surpasses that pedal. I would definitely buy it again if I lost this one. It's a little pricey, but in line with the other boutique pedals. You get what you pay for, generally. I play classic rock, blues, RnB, and some country with this band, and find this chorus pedal complements all styles.

Easy to get a good sound out of only has two knobs speed and intensity how much simpler could it be. Used to use a Boss Se-70 but it was so hard to tweak for me that I onlu used the chorus and I like the sound of this better it is more organic and a nice chime.

I play rock and blues and this pedal is great for the clean sounds. It is a bit noisy I think, I use a strat with single coils so that could be part of noise but I don't notice any noise through my Fulltone Drive 2 it is way quiet. Overall this pedal is the sound I wanted

This pedal is made very strong I would trust it to last a long time. I couldn't afford a backup but I doubt I would ever need one because of the way this thing is built.

I've called and talked to people from Voodoo Lab and they are very friendly and helpful. They answer e-mail pretty fast, they helped me find a dealer in my area which was not easy.

I like this pedal for the added depth it gives my sound and It can really make my guitar sound pretty. I use a Soldano amp with a strat 68 reissue and this seems to be the match I've ben looking for. I say buy one if you can find one they are worth it.

Very easy to use, right out of the box. Keeping with Voodoo Lab's minimalist approach (which I love), 2 knobs - Intensity and Speed. Very easy to get a variety of sounds from the almost infinite combinations of these control knobs. No indicator light, which is a negative when gigging. I understand new models now have them. Input and output jacks are at 12 o'clock, which I prefer to the "in on the right and out on the left" of other pedals.

This is the one - vintage, warm analog chorus. Designed and built to reproduce the Boss CE-1 and it does so perfectly. Everything from a light, shimmery sound to warm, lush chorus to brazen, pulsating sounds are possible. I play a modified Tele (humbuckers) and a Les Paul into a Fender Vibrolux Reverb and the pedal works well with both guitars. No noise whatsoever from the pedal when it's on and true bypass when it's off.

Seems extremely well built. No problems yet and I don't expect any.

n/a

As a gigging musician, I like the minimalist approach Voodoo Lab takes with its pedals, the Analog Chorus included. Two knobs give me all the tonal control I want, without having to worry or remember settings. This is a truly great chorus pedal for all types of music. I play mostly blues and it serves me well with both Rhythm and lead parts. Can even get funky if you put an overdrive pedal in front of it. I've tried many other pedals and am glad I finally found this one. It's a keeper, for sure.

Two knobs, I think they're called rate and intensity. Pretty easy, I guess. Manual not too helpful, but what do you need?

I had heard some rave reviews about this pedal and its depth of sound, and it is all true. It is a VERY deep chorus. I play in a surf-rock band, and I stomp it for clean strumming, and it seems to actually boost the signal a bit, almost like a compressor.
I used it live the other night with a new Danelectro DC and Fender Hot Rod Deville (4 x 10) and the clean sound was absolutely heavenly.
This is a strange and wonderful pedal. I very much like just slight chorus, just to flavor a clean sound, and this does that. But what I've been amazed at is how many different TYPES of sounds you can get with the dials at various positions. I need to start writing them down, because every combination of settings with those two simple knobs seems to produce radically different effects, from slight chorus to obnoxious wobbly rotating speaker effects. Sometimes I think it's a little TOO deep, because it actually gets a sort of phase thing going, but I love it anyway.

Looks pretty strong. I understand Voodoo Labs uses only the best components.

I hear this is good, too.

My one complaint is that there's no LED to indicate when the thing's on. With a distortion pedal that might be okay, but a chorus? Another review said something about "sound quality" being effected if there was an LED, and I don't really buy that because many fine effects have them. This is a strong chorus, so you mostly know when it's on, but on all my other boxes, it's just added comfort to know for sure, right away, if it's on or off without playing a note, and I don't have that with this.

Simple as they come. Two knobs for rate and sensitivity. It's a no brainer. My cat could use this thing.

I use an American Strat with EMG pickups, and a Fender amp. My rig is ultra quiet, and the Chorus pedal is also quiet. It blends well with distortion pedals and the like... I think the sounds quality is as close as you can get to a vintage Roland Chorus pedal. You get great vintage chorus, and I can even mimicke the sound on George's Solo on Let it Be.

It's can't brake, it's made of some metal like stuff that is non-destructable.

This people were great! Before I owned the pedal, I mailed the company and they even called me on the phone to talk about the product. This guys are a top notch company with great reissue products.

I play just about every type of music, and anywhere that chorus can be used, this succeeds to fulfill it all. I use it with compressors and wahs, and it goes great. I would like a LED light for it, but that's no biggy considering that if you can't tell the chorus is on, then you suck!! Bottom line? Throw away your digital junk, throw away your BOSS stuff, this is the only Chorus pedal to have.

The Voodoo Lab Analog Chorus is very easy to use. It contains 2 knobs, ("Speed" and "Intensity") a heavy-duty DPDT (Double Pole-Double Throw) stomp switch, and a true-bypass which allows all the pure tone of the guitar come through even when you turn the effect off but still keep it within your signal path from guitar to amp.

The Analog Chorus has a very warm, round sound to it. It sounds very vintage and has a slight "flanger" sound to it. It's actually TOO sweet! It can get noisy when used in conjunction with a distorted amplifier, but that is the nature of older effect units. The sound produced by the Analog Chorus is top-notch and if you're after a vintage chorus sound, I highly recommend it!

All the Voodoo Lab pedals are extremely durable and built well. I think these units could last forever although I never did any heavy gigging with them. (Home use only) All the parts included in the construction of the pedal are of the highest quality.

Josh Fiden of Voodoo Labs has answered my e-mail more thoroughly than any other manufuacturer I have been in contact with. He helped me out with all questions on my Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe even though I bought it used! He also answered all my general questions about pedals that weren't even related to Voodoo Labs at all. You aren't going to get more Customer Service than at Voodoo Labs!

The Voodoo Lab Analog Chorus is easily one of the best-sounding pedals I have ever owned. I recently have decided to sell all my pedals to save for a Line6 AX2 amp and parted with my Analog Chorus earlier this year. I have enjoyed both my Voodoo Labs Analog Chorus and Micro Vibe and would highly recommend them to anyone. Voodoo Lab pedals are of the highest quality and they aren't as expensive as some other "boutique" pedals. Check them out - you won't be disappointed.
You can read more of my HARMONY CENTRAL reviews at my web site and check out what gera I have for sale!
- Don Wool's GUITAR GEAR HISTORY http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/2860/dw_gear.html "Home of my guitar gear collection. See what equipment I've owned through the years and what's for sale through the Internet! Looking for a back issue of a certain guitar magazine or catalog? I've got those for sale too! ATTENTION U.S. GEAR HEADS! Looking for a certain piece of gear? I can search for that gear for you and mail it to you!