Charlo Music

This is one you probably already intuitively know!  You’re likely familiar with the vocal term “chorus” — as in “many voices singing at once”.  A guitar “chorus” pedal does the same thing — it makes your guitar sound like two or more guitars playing in unison at the same time.What makes chorus work is that it really does try to act like two or more players playing at the same time.  In real life, two people playing the exact same thing will never be completely synchronized.  They’ll start each note at a slightly different time, perhaps pitch the notes slightly differently, hold them differently, etc.  They’ll be really close — but it won’t be exact.  This slight “offness” is what makes a chorus sound different from a single voice — the slight variances in the signals make the sound richer and fuller.A guitar chorus pedal works by splitting the guitar signal into two pieces … and then delaying one of those pieces a fractional amount.  The delay is very slight — too much would yield a reverb effect — but it’s enough to shift the wave form of one signal path so that it no longer exactly matches the original … Read more