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All audio clips are recorded with a Marshall JCM900 amp set with a clean tone. We also used a Naoto Overdrive/Distortion on some clips (where specified).
Guitars:
Fender Stratocaster (3 Fender single coil pickups)
Kramer Pacer (Suhr humbucker pickups)
Clean sound, no effects added
Clip 1
Guitar: Fender Stratocaster (neck and middle pickup)
Mode: Ensemble
Speed: 4/10
Depth: 5/10
Clip 2
Guitar: Kramer Pacer (neck and bridge pickup)
Mode: Ensemble
Speed: 4/10
Depth: 8/10
Clip 3 (Misty Nights Chorus + Naoto Overdrive/Distortion)
Guitar: Kramer Pacer (bridge pickup)
Mode: Ensemble
Speed: 5/10
Depth: 6/10
Clip 4
Guitar: Kramer Pacer (bridge pickup with coil split)
Mode: Clone
Speed: 8/10
Depth: 7/10
Clip 5
Guitar: Kramer Pacer (bridge and neck pickup)
Mode: Clone
Speed: 4/10
Depth: 8/10
The power of chorus…
The first device to generate the chorus effect was conceived in 1976 by Roland, who founded the Boss company branch dedicated to guitar effects, giving life to Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble, becoming a reference very quickly.
Luca Colombo argues that the chorus effect awakens something deep and mystical thus describing its magical power:
“I am not a psychologist and I have no knowledge on the subject but, speaking with many people of my generation, even outside musicial world, I have always shared with them the fact that a guitar sound processed by a chorus, suddenly makes us jump over time, a sort of blackout catapulting us back to our childhood. In those days the music mainstream was much more influential than now despite the new and modern technologies of information and music reproduction or entertainment, a good song was listened many times in a row over and over again, we used to wait the following week or month on newsstands to buy the next issue of our favorite magazine and we anxiously were looking at the clock for the daily episode of our favorite TV show, no streaming, no scheduled repeats.
I firmly believe that Ikutaro Kakehashi, the founder of Roland and Boss, brilliant mind and creator of the first chorus pedal ever, knew precisely what he was doing in 1976, a modulated signal with a low frequency oscillator mixed with the original signal to emulate a group of instruments instead of one creating this massive sound, as if an ensemble of guitars were playing the same part generating union and complicity.
The contribution of this effect has reserved to anyone who lived that era in almost every guitar sound, a safe place in subconscious re-emerging whenever our ear transduces its vibrations. “
Ensemble and Clone
Misty Nights chorus offers 2 operation modes:
Controls on Misty Nights are the following: