01—Boss
CE-2W Waza Craft Chorus
The Andy Summers 'Walking on the Moon' chorus — every dreamy clean rhythm tone from 1980.
The only modern reissue that gets the original CE-2 right. CE-1 mode alone makes it worth the price. Standard for any chorus-needing pedalboard.
02—On the bench
Boss's Waza Craft reissue of the CE-2 chorus — the 1979 bucket-brigade chorus that defined the sound of the early-1980s clean tone, from The Police to Kurt Cobain's clean rhythm parts. The Waza version adds two modes: Standard (the original CE-2 in mono), Vibrato mode (no dry signal — pitch modulation only), and CE-1 mode (the larger box that preceded the CE-2, with chorus and vibrato voices and stereo output). The bucket-brigade tone is warm, slightly dark, and watery in a way that no digital chorus replicates. The CE-1 mode in particular nails the wider, more dimensional Andy Summers / Roland Jazz Chorus territory.
- 01warm, slightly dark, organic — the BBD sound
- 02CE-1 mode is the canonical stereo chorus
- 03Vibrato mode is the genuinely useful third option
- 04subtle at slow rates, lush at fast ones
- 05stays musical even at maximum depth
03—Contested claims · 1
Where readers pushed back.
04—In the room
Where else this pedal lives.
- Andy Summers
- Kurt Cobain
- John Frusciante
- Mike Stern
Walrus Audio Julianna if you want more modulation flexibility; CE-2W if you want the canonical chorus.