#chorus ensemble

[fuzzkaizer]

BOSS - CE-1 Chorus Ensemble

"... yeah, there’s a reason why they occupy so much Cabinet real estate. The company created the “first” of a variety of effects, and was certainly the first to offer many types in compact boxes. However, one such pedal is a stone-cold all-time classic despite never being offered in Boss’s trademark compact enclosure. That pedal is the CE-1 Chorus Ensemble.

Released one year after parent company Roland’s flagship Jazz Chorus amplifiers, Boss did what was once considered the unthinkable. Following the rapid and perhaps unexpected success of the aforementioned amp series, Roland wasted no time with ripping a circuit straight from them and putting them in a floor unit. In fact, this circuit ended up being the first pedal to bear the Boss name, and what a first it was.

Back when the CE-1 was conceptualized, the idea of mains-powered pedals was pretty commonplace. Mu-Tron effects used them, and so did MXR on some of its more ambitious models. Onboard and oftentimes custom-wound transformers ensured that voltages would be stepped down at precisely the right increments in order to preserve tonal integrity and headroom.

Of course, most pedals of the time also ran on nine-volt batteries, establishing a standard that continues today. But before these standards were established, the idea of grandiose effects thrived under the usage of mains power. Such a boundless canvas allowed companies like Boss to rip entire hunks of circuitry straight from larger silicon conglomerates and put them right at a player’s feet. These days, very few manufacturers offer such exacting circuitry, and the few that do charge exorbitant prices.

The CE-1 is one particularly exceptional example of this practice, because it expands on the original circuit, with the added bonus that you can play it through an actual tube amplifier. It also adds an extra functionality that the Jazz Chorus just couldn’t match. The Jazz Chorus gives players both Chorus and Vibrato modes, and to that end, serves up three knobs, of which Speed and Depth are two. The third knob is actually a rotary switch that chooses either mode. While the JC-120 offers a footswitch input to toggle the effect on and off, the CE-1 does one better and converts the rotary switch into a stompable button, meaning you don’t have to do the Angus Young duckwalk back to your amp mid-set to change modes. Nobody wants to do this.

Roland’s Jazz Chorus—and thusly the CE-1—couldn’t have come at a better time for end-users or commerce. Californian semiconductor company Reticon developed the first bucket-brigade device (BBD) and distributed them through the usual suspects, including Radio Shack under the store’s in-house Archer brand. The only problem—again for end-users and commerce—was that each one cost a crazy amount of 1970s dollars. Even at wholesale prices, Reticon’s SAD series of BBD chips made effects a bit on the expensive side.

Shortly after in Japan, Matsushita released the genesis of the Japanese BBD boom that ended up sinking Reticon and all pedals that relied on it. The first chip off the Matsushita line was the MN3002 and found its way into the CE-1 tout de suite. With the combination of the relatively inexpensive BBD and the full-strength brawn of the circuit itself, the CE-1 made a splash in the effects world and primed the pump for Boss’s compact series to take the effects world by storm.

The most unsung piece of the CE-1 puzzle is the onboard preamp that preps the signal for its impending modulation. While many effects and amplifiers (especially of this era) features “high” and “low” inputs, they usually correspond to a brute force approach that swaps out resistors in the signal path. However, the CE-1 preamp section starts with an op-amp preamp circuit that sweetens the signal, and switching over to high mode inserts a transistorized gain stage between the input and the op-amp section. This adds a velvety gloss to the signal before it ever sniffs the BBD chip, catapulting your tone into heights unreached by lesser devices.

It’s not often that almost 50 years later, no effect of a given type has surpassed the first one ever created, but such is the case with the CE-1. Its combination of unsurpassed tonal brilliance, component count and wacky power requirements has cemented its place in the effects hall of fame, leaving even the most modern refinements squarely in the rear-view mirror."

cred: catalinbread.com/blogs/kulas-cabinet/boss-ce-1-chorus-ensemble

[bandchat]

One thing I missed out on by starting my guitar playing in the late 80s and early 90s were all the arguments about analog vs. digital effects. This was a time when studios were regularly using digital techniques to record and master albums, so using that technology for effects wasn't frowned upon either.

Fast forward to now, and the arguments won't stop. People continue to insist that analog is warm, digital is sterile, vintage is good, and modern is bad, even though in blind tests people attribute the wrong qualities to the wrong type (see this BOSS CE-5 comparison and this vintage vs. modern pedal comparison).

Would you be able to tell what technology I used for my rendition of Nirvana's "Come As You Are" (spoiler: it's a digital based chorus)?"

[finelythreadedsky]

underrated point of difference in the conventions of ancient and modern theatre is that the ancient chorus is all one gender and age group while a modern ensemble is more usually mixed, at least in terms of gender. must consider this more.

[dont-call-me-algernon]

Every day I wake up and mourn the fact that the Death Note musical didn’t adapt the yotsuba arc, which means we never got a “we’re an evil corporation doing evil things” song for the yotsuba eight a la This Jesus Must Die in JCS 2012

[srasdoesthings]

The Dream the Doll Girl Dreamed

In the closed garden, I am the only one who is willing true love. That's the answer: You made me this way

Clinging to the name of God, my brain has corrupted. Running in circles. They thin out the seedlings of love. Holding you in my hands, I make flowers bloom filled with sorrow.

The girl (doll) made by that miserable girl (dollmaker) smiles gently, as if she were alive

[cosmical-flowers]

mayoi ayase because Believe 4 Leaves changed my life

[phierecycled]

where have i been? oh nowhere much just watching the cabaret tony awards performance 2024 on repeat

[shredsandpatches]

Today's "Doctor Faustus staging thing that Lea definitely wants to see": doing it in a candlelit space (like the Sam Wanamaker) and having the final soliloquy lit by a single candle, or (I might like this better) starting with multiple lit candles and extinguishing them over the course of the speech so there's only one left by the time the clock strikes twelve.

Mephistopheles, of course, responds to Faustus' final "Ah, Mephistopheles--" by blowing it out.

[raelyn-dreams]

Realized I hadn't posted this here, so here it is! My edition of the enstars template going around~

OG template here!

[miumiins]

Thank you for making mrs green apple content - I've been a fan for a bit now bc their music really is that phenomenal but when I read the lyrics my admiration and love for them grew ten fold. I'm desperate to find more fan content with MGA amd you're doing a hard carry 🥹

HOIESKFSG omg thank you so much i'm glad :'))) until i started drawin fanart of them recently i've never really drawn irl ppl so it's a struggle but it's fun LOL

i totally feel u tho, not that there aren't overseas fans but it's definitely much rarer compared to jp fanbase (i only started seeing fan content of mga this year albeit from jp side of twt) i am constantly screaming about my feelings for them into the void...

but yes, the lyrics always hit home for me, and since my jpn has improved over the years whenever i go back to some of their older, lesser known songs that don't have official translations and read the lyrics im always left like oghgghhh 😭😭😭 that, plus i never really get into all songs by a music artist but mga's music truly has me loving All of their songs, even the songs that i feel like i normally wouldn't get into, it just has that something that gets me into it in the end LOL

[ell-if-i-know]

bro i was in a production of we will rock you one time and it was so funny i had to spend so much time at the places to only go on stage briefly twice per show and sing scuffed versions of the songs (the group i was a part of did a short version of one song near the beginning and one song at the beginning of act 2)

[fuzzkaizer]

WARM audio - WA-C1

"sterep chorus & vibrato pedal with depht & rate controls ... Faithful Recreation Of The Most Celebrated All-Analog Chorus Effects Pedal"

s.a. the original BOSS - CE-1 chorus ensemble

interesting recreation of the boss/roland enclosure - s.a a turkish recreation and the actual update of their own enclosure design by boss.

cred: warmaudio.com/wa-c1-chorus-vibrato, facebook.com/Brett Huhn

[couldbebetterforsure]

Man, getting into Enstars after being a part of Idolish7 for so long is so funny to me. Because I realized Kotaro Nishiyama voices both Kanata in Enstars and Minami in Idolish7. And hearing the difference in the type of songs they sing is something else 😂

Because on the one hand you got a guy singing about friendship and bonds and dreams and protecting the smiles of people. And on the other hand you got a guy singing about how typical love is dumb and actually being in a codependent relationship is awesome!

[echidnana]

not sure how well known they are in the prsk fandom, but we haven't seen them mentioned on tumblr so- there's a youtube channel called Project Sekai: A New Voice! (channel link) that does english dubs of the stories and covers of the songs! below is a list of our favorite songs covers, it's been cool to see their mixing and editing improve since the channel started.

Love Trial

Chururira Chururira Daddadda!

Infinitely Gray

Angel's Clover

More! Jump! More!

「１」

Gunjo Sanka

Cinema

Shojo Rei

[comradecowplant]

I don't follow blogs ran by people being racist about rap so I'm only witnessing the secondhand responses to the recent "discourse" and sadly 'tumblrinas being racist about their bad taste in music & low lyrical literacy' is exactly what I'd put on my 2024 bingo card for this steadily declining shithole....

[captaincleverusernamehere]

i love having a silly little project. i’m currently abridging and high school-ifying TGWDLM just like. for fun. as an exercise. like i can’t do anything with this but at least now i have sympathy for people who make adaptations/junior versions of shows and make absurd cuts bc i cut Workin’ Boys from my version and it physically hurt me