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Rainbow machine cops some cool chorus tones with the pitch at 12.
Even better when you throw in the magic switch

Sea Machine and Rainbow Machine can both do great chorus. Sea Machine can get way out there with throbby pitch insanity.

Okay, I finally had chance to swing by my sweet local music shop and tried a few, thought I'd share. I've tried:

1.Analogman bi-chorus w/ deep switch. Fancy looking and sweet sounding chorus/vibrato. Seriously nice, but a little bit too transparent and too pretty sounding and priced way up there, frequency was kinda subtle and blended with guitar tone too nicely, I bet this thing would sound great at home by myself, but I suspect the modulation would be buried in band mix easy due to the transparency.

2.Next stop was the EQD Sea Machine, shit was too complicated for my needs. I was able to scoop some cool sounds out of it (with a lot of patience) but I could never get that classic chimey chorus I had in my head. Too much work for an idiot like me. I moved on..

3.Then I plugged into Red Witch phaser. Right away after I hit the switch it gave me that loud & annoying hiss, I unplugged right away in literally 10 seconds. So embarrassing, for the price tag.

4.Shit's still going, I then tried the Diamond Halo. Any knobs position will give you the instant sweet spot all across the range. But the range is kinda narrow, so it's definitely not a versatile pedal. It's "clean" and nice, this thing is too "polite" sounding to me It's boring. But I bet it's great for majority of regular folks who wants to sound like the police and shit. Not me.

5. Onto the last stop, started to get frustrated and almost thinking on getting the damn bi-chorus, then my buddy who works there hand me this ugly looking pedal with so much passion and super swears by it. Turned out to be the one that I finally brought home. *drumrolls.. Fucking EHX Neo Clone! Why? Easy, 3 words: Swirly. Wet. Juice. None of any pedals above gave me this smooth throbbing vibe like the neo, not even my previous clone reissue. Plugged the guitar in, and boom.. Instant jizz. Idiot proof and straight to the point. Plus the voicing frequency will guaranteed to cut through the band mix. Perfect for a non cheese music.

Glad, I got out the store only to spend $65.. I was accompanied by a gear snob buddy the whole time demoing the pedals and we both agreed, this one is a winner.

There goes my unprofessional reviews, YMWVSDA (your miles won't vary, so don't argue)




IK
(I kid)
It's just what works for me

Looks like you had fun, and congrats on finding a winner. Just wanted to add I own a red witch phaser and it's dead quiet and quite versatile, maybe they had a bum unit.

Better be, it sounded pretty good on few seconds I tried it though.

to be honest, the Neo Clone is surprisingly good

anyone tried it on bass?

Yeah, I can't stand those transparent sounding chorus pedals either, way too boring.
The Small Clone has always been a big favourite of mine so if the Neo is anywhere close it must be pretty good, nice score.

Tristan wrote:Yeah, I can't stand those transparent sounding chorus pedals either, way too boring.
The Small Clone has always been a big favourite of mine so if the Neo is anywhere close it must be pretty good, nice score.

Try the Neo if you have chance, you might like it better. It's juicier than regular Clone. I just prefer the look & housing of the regular Clone though, the graphic on the Neo looks meh at its best. Just skip the NANO Clone though, that little one just sounded horrible.

Small Clone has always been my kind of "chorus sound" of choice, but I tried to be objective, and open minded that day and open on the budget, but others are just sounded cheesy, thin, overly complicated just to get THAT right swirly sound, and some just doesn't have balls/personality.. just copies of the usual suspects.

I have a Deluxe Electric Mistress coming this weekend, see if that big boy could also cover my chorus needs and more.

Tested the Neo Clone on bass at our shop today.

it definitely surprised me. Adds nice movement and a bit of spark, but it's definitely not too bright. The less pronounced mode sounds really mellow, I like the less pronounced mode more on the faster settings, where it's a bit stronger. And I liked the more pronounced on slower settings, because it adds some metallic overtones, but still isn't as drowsy as the higher rate settings. It sounds quite cool, especially for the price And i'm not into chorus

(For those of you, who do not vomit when someone mentions Tool - it reminds me a little bit of the intro to "46 and 2" maybe? Maybe just a bit less metallic )

by the way - i'd definitely be into some info on the Deluxe Electric Mistress on bass if anyone can provide

I guess it's safe to say that we can put the Neo Clone out for "people who doesn't like chorus"

Anyway.. the Mistress came in today, and that asshole from ebay gave me a dead pedal with a sunk in switch. It's my second time, defective on both. I'm through buying used pedals there I just don't get why ppl sending out broken pedals at the first place..