CE-2 Chorus

Name: CE-2 Chorus
Brand: Boss
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Chorus

The 80s chorus sound in a compact box - warm, watery BBD tone that defined a decade.

When Boss shrunk the CE-1's lush BBD chorus into a compact pedal in 1979, the CE-2 became the sound of an entire decade. Every shimmering clean tone on an 80s record owes something to this circuit.

A Matsushita MN3007 bucket-brigade chip provides the analog delay line, modulated by a smooth triangle-wave LFO. The result is warm, watery chorus with a subtle pitch wobble that digital algorithms have been chasing ever since. Higher input impedance and a gentle mid-range bump make it sit perfectly with electric guitars.

Just two knobs: Rate and Depth. It sounds good everywhere, but the sweet spot lives with Rate around 10 o'clock and Depth at 1 o'clock for that classic shimmer. Produced from 1979 to 1992, with early green-label Japanese units commanding the highest collector prices.

Andy Summers, John Frusciante, and Johnny Marr all shaped their sounds with CE-2-style chorus. Reissued in 2016 as the CE-2W Waza Craft with an added CE-1 vibrato mode.

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Specifications

Power9V DC

Current Draw9mA

Polaritycenter-negative

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CE-2 Chorus

Chorus

The 80s chorus sound in a compact box - warm, watery BBD tone that defined a decade.

When Boss shrunk the CE-1's lush BBD chorus into a compact pedal in 1979, the CE-2 became the sound of an entire decade. Every shimmering clean tone on an 80s record owes something to this circuit.

Andy Summers, John Frusciante, and Johnny Marr all shaped their sounds with CE-2-style chorus. Reissued in 2016 as the CE-2W Waza Craft with an added CE-1 vibrato mode.