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Looking through the site, I started to notice that I hardly mention modulation pedals. Okay, enough of that, so today I wanted to bring up the Red Witch Empress Analog Chorus-Vibrato pedal.

Red Witch is a small company from New Zealand (I’m also a big, big fan of Audio Crowther that is from New Zealand as well) that specializes in analog guitar effects.

Here is a brief description of the Empress Analog Chorus:

The Red Witch Empress Chorus is not just an ordinary analog Chorus and Vibe effects pedal. The most enticing feature on the Empress Chorus pedal is the unique voicing control. This dial accesses virtually any chorus sound you could desire. It changes the delay time—it’s on a pot so you’ve got an infinite number of chorus pedals in one box—from super spanky sparkling clean to noisy, seasick-inducing, pitch bending wobble.

Delay time determines a big part of any chorus pedal’s tone, flavor, and sound. Short delay creates a very pristine, airy chorus, whereas longer delay time gives more wobble and throb. Unfortunately virtually all chorus devices only have 1 fixed delay setting—or at most a choice of 2.

Red Witch designed a circuit that adjusts the delay time via a potentiometer—from one extreme to the other and everything in-between. In its most extreme settings the device produces some hiss—this would be expected within the last third of the voicing controls sweep.

I found a nice video by soundpurestudios where they describe the pedal in detail:

You can pick up the Red Witch Empress Analog Chorus-Vibrato Pedal for $299.99 at Musician’s Friend.

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Continuing my alerts on the BBE pedals at Amazon, I came across the BBE Mind Bender Analog Dual Mode Vibrato and Chorus pedal. Again, this is an amazing deal at Amazon. Normally lists for $209.00, Musician’s Friend has it for $149.99 + Shipping, and Amazon has a awesome price of $77.50 with FREE Super Shipping.

The Mind Bender is a dual-mode analog Vibrato/Chorus pedal that produces a wide range of lush vibrato/chorus and rotating speaker effects and was patterned after two rare vintage pedals the Boss VB-2 Vibrato and Way Huge Electronics’ Blue Hippo.

• Speed, Depth controls and a Mode switch to select Vibrato or Chorus modes
• Hardwire Bypass Switching
• LED Status Indicator
• Easy Access 9V Battery Compartment
• External Power Supply Included (North America Only)

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Yesterday, I posted info about the EHX Memory Toy analog delay. I thought it was only appropriate to post the new Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy Analog Echo Chorus Vibrato Pedal as well. This pedal was newly introduced to the Electro-Harmonix pedal line to make the features and quality of the legendary Memory Man more affordable allowing it to be more accessible to more musicians.

Here are the features of this pedal:

• All analog delay with Feedback
• Up to 550 ms delay time
• Selectable Chorus or Vibrato modulations rates
• Choose between triangle or square modulation waveforms
• Expression pedal control of delay time or modulation rate (expression pedal extends the range of modulation rate)
• True Bypass
• 96DC-200BI power supply included

Oddly, I was not able to find this at Musician’s Friend. Not sure if they’re currently out of stock, but I did find it available at Amazon. The pedal’s list price is $130.90, but can be purchased at Amazon for $98.18 (25% off) and includes FREE super saver shipping.

I found another great video by ToneFactor showing what the EHX Memory Boy is all about:

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