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CS-550 Stereo Chorus

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The CS-550 Stereo Chorus was originally commissioned by legendary Japanese Rock guitarist Hisato "Char" Takenaka. After 25 years of playing Char still hadn't found a chorus unit that satisfied his critical tastes, so he approached Maxon to build him one. Char had requested three specific points be addressed when designing this unit first that it should have less noise than a standard chorus; second that it should be extremely versatile; and lastly, that it had to be analog. The results of this experiment were so overwhelmingly positive that Maxon decided to market the unit, and thus the CS-550 Stereo Chorus was born.

Chorus Effects Comparison

Name Brand Sound Usability Reliability Total
AFX Acoustic Effects Chorus Pedal Fishman 10 (2 ratings) 10 (2 ratings) 10 (2 ratings) 10 (2 ratings)
Bass Multi Chorus Digitech 10 (1 ratings) - 10 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings)
CE-2 Mod Keeley 10 (2 ratings) 10 (2 ratings) 10 (2 ratings) 10 (1 ratings)
CF-7 Digitech 10 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings)
CS-550 Stereo Chorus Maxon 10 (2 ratings) 9.67 (3 ratings) 10 (3 ratings) 10 (2 ratings)
CS-9 Stereo Chorus Pro Maxon 10 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings)
MC-3 MICRO CHORUS Guyatone 10 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings) 8 (1 ratings) 9 (1 ratings)
Stereo Chorus flanger TCElectronics 10 (2 ratings) 8 (2 ratings) 8 (2 ratings) 10 (2 ratings)
Poly Chorus ElectroHarmonix 9.4 (5 ratings) 7.8 (5 ratings) 8.4 (5 ratings) 9.4 (5 ratings)
Chorus XII CarlMartin 9.2 (5 ratings) 9.8 (5 ratings) 8.4 (5 ratings) 8.8 (5 ratings)
Stereo Polychorus ElectroHarmonix 9.2 (5 ratings) 7.2 (5 ratings) 7.5 (4 ratings) 9 (4 ratings)
DC-1 Cool Cat Danelectro 9.14 (7 ratings) 9.75 (8 ratings) 9.38 (8 ratings) 9.38 (8 ratings)
CE-20 Chorus Ensemble Boss 9 (1 ratings) 6 (2 ratings) 10 (1 ratings) 9 (1 ratings)
MM4 Modulation Modeler Line6 9 (2 ratings) 8.5 (2 ratings) 9 (2 ratings) 9 (2 ratings)
Stereo Chorus MXR 9 (5 ratings) 9.2 (5 ratings) 9.8 (5 ratings) 9.2 (5 ratings)
CH-1 Super Chorus Boss 8.57 (7 ratings) 7.57 (7 ratings) 6.71 (7 ratings) 7.71 (7 ratings)
Analog Chorus Voodoo 8.43 (7 ratings) 9.88 (8 ratings) 9.5 (8 ratings) 8.75 (8 ratings)
D-4 Fab Chorus Danelectro 8.4 (5 ratings) 8.8 (5 ratings) 8.6 (5 ratings) 8.8 (5 ratings)
Uni Vibe Dunlop 8.17 (6 ratings) 9.14 (7 ratings) 8 (6 ratings) 7.5 (6 ratings)
Enveloope ToadWorks 8 (1 ratings) 9 (1 ratings) 9 (1 ratings) 8 (1 ratings)
DJ-7 MilkShake Danelectro 7.8 (5 ratings) 9.33 (6 ratings) 6.83 (6 ratings) 8 (6 ratings)
CE-5 Chorus Ensemble Boss 7.2 (5 ratings) 7.8 (5 ratings) 8 (5 ratings) 8.8 (5 ratings)
CF7 Chorus Flanger Ibanez 7 (1 ratings) 8 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings) 7 (1 ratings)
Regenerator RG-1 Modulator Marshall 7 (1 ratings) 7 (1 ratings) 8 (1 ratings) 7 (1 ratings)
Chorus AnalogMan 6.5 (2 ratings) 6 (2 ratings) 6.5 (2 ratings) 7.5 (2 ratings)
BI-CHORUS AnalogMan 6 (2 ratings) 9 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings) 10 (1 ratings)
CS9 stereo chorus Ibanez 5 (2 ratings) 8 (2 ratings) 9 (1 ratings) 6.5 (2 ratings)
CEB-3 Bass Chorus Boss 4.67 (3 ratings) 5 (2 ratings) 6 (2 ratings) 5.5 (2 ratings)
Mind Bender BBE - - - -
MINI-CHORUS AnalogMan - - - -
Multi Chorus Digitech - - - -
PolyChorusPolyFlangeEchoflanger ElectroHarmonix - - - -
Space Chorus Line6 - - - -
Uni Vibe Foot Controler Dunlop - - - -
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