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Posted by: gharris Jul 6 2007, 10:21 PM

Hi all, im looking into getting a new pedal for my setup,
can anyone tell me the difference between the boss ce-5 and the boss ch-1 ?
and one other question if you had to pick between reverb or chorus, which one would you go for ?
Im just not sure which one to go for, i play a lot of different styles of music,
so its not a case of what kind of tone am i going for .
Any help is much apritiated

Posted by: Pavel Jul 6 2007, 11:34 PM

For my playing i would go for reverb! With reverb you can get really good lead sound and also nice crystal clean sound when playing on clean sound.

Don't know about Boss pedals!

Posted by: gharris Jul 7 2007, 12:54 AM

Thank you for your help, im now leaning towards getting a reverb pedal,
unless anyone else can talk me out of it

Posted by: MickeM Jul 7 2007, 01:05 AM

Yeah, rather get the reverb if your amp lack it! I own a CH-1 but never use it. It just doesn't fit my style, I used it once for a Nirvana song, can't remember which (some chorus guitar intro and maybe rhythm can't recall), but that's all.

Posted by: gharris Jul 7 2007, 01:13 AM

Another push in the right direction, i hope

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Jul 7 2007, 01:21 AM

Well .... the thing about reverb pedals is ...

You should take Pavels and MickeM's advice and get one before you get a chorus pedal

Posted by: gharris Jul 7 2007, 01:31 AM

Im sold

Posted by: MickeM Jul 7 2007, 01:45 AM

hehe, well it just hit me that you only asked which one of the two to go for, question is what effect you're trying to achive?

I'm off to bed anyway, hope you get it sorted out

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: gharris Jul 7 2007, 01:55 AM

im not looking for any one sound, i just want to fill up a boss pedal board (bcb-60) i just ordered

Posted by: MickeM Jul 7 2007, 05:54 PM

Aha. Beaware that every pedal will take a bit off of the sound from your guitar.

The most useful pedals as I see it are

EQ
Delay
Wah (won't fit your board though)

And I'm really fond of my Overdrive though it's maybe not useful all the time.

That's the ones I use the most. Then I have reverb and distortion on the amp.
That makes six.

Posted by: Rock Jul 8 2007, 12:10 AM

Actually Boss makes an auto wah in the small format. I hear it is very good actually.



Hey Andrew,

I just noticed that you are probably the closest geographically to me from GMC from what I have noticed. Especially where so many GMCers are from overseas. I grew up just north of Boston, Lawrence MA and currently live in Londonderry NH just over the MA border with my family.

Rock (Mike)

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Jul 8 2007, 01:36 AM

Heh, were a little scare out in new England - I'm in Southern CT near Greenwich (though I moved over form the UK just over a year ago)

Posted by: gharris Jul 8 2007, 12:19 PM

just to let you know, i ordered the reverb