From Oakley Sound via analogue Sent Mon, Jan 7th 2019, 16:35
From Oakley Sound via analogue Sent Mon, Jan 7th 2019, 16:35
> I already have a Boss CE300 super chorus which someone told me was similar - but I don't think they are right - the CE300 is just a normal chorus and so you always get that cycling sound which I'm not exactly fond of. Both the DC-2 and CE-300 share the same basic topology. The signal is delayed by two delay lines, each modulated by the same LFO but one of the delays is fed from an inverted LFO signal. It's the classic Roland chorus. So the delay lines and their control are similar but not identical. The CE300 allows more control over the frequency and depth of modulation. The thing about the DC-2 is that the modulation is set to be low and slow so the apparent movement is not obvious. It's probably easy to get carried away with increased range of the CE-300. There are other differences - the circuitry surrounding the delay lines are not the same so they won't sound the same even if you set the CE300 to have a similar depth and frequency as the DC-2. The delay lines are different too with the CE300 using the marginally better MN3007 rather than the DC-2's MN3207. I've not compared the two but I'd bet that the CE-300 has more headroom over the DC-2. Both devices also use boombox style stereo widening which most other Roland choruses do not. That is the left hand delayed signal is mixed with a fraction of the inverted right hand delayed signal, and vice versa. So no mono compatibility with either but you do get an enhanced stereo signal. Tony www.oakleysound.com