DAN AGOSTO: Hi. Welcome to Gearwire. We’re taking a look at the MXR Stereo Chorus. Let’s take a look at what’s inside the box.

All right. Over here it comes with an adapter. First we get the pedal, and here’s some instructions. These are very simple instructions, what the knobs do, what the buttons do, and then some settings down here. There’s even one that you can set up for yourself. I also get the Dunlop Registration. There’s postage paid on that, and then a little ad for the DC Power Brick from Dunlop which is used to replace power supplies for most pedals.

All right. Let’s take a look at the pedal. We got one input jack and because it’s a stereo, we got two output jacks. The top one is mono, the bottom one would be your stereo output. We got true bypass, a good amount of knobs. The adaptor that comes with it, we plug right into here, and if you’re into batteries though, you can use two 9 volts. We’re going to be using the adapter that because it comes with it today though. So, that’s the MXR Stereo Chorus out of the box.

All right. We’re back with the MXR Stereo Chorus. It’s plugged in and ready to go. We’re not using it as a stereo chorus today because we just got one amp, so we’re using mono but it’s set up to do that quite well anyway. So, right now I’m playing with a Fender American Standard Telecaster through a Marshall JCM2000 half stack, and that’s mic’ed up with a Shure SM57. Let’s see what we sound like with just the guitar, no effect.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS BYPASSED]

All right. Let’s turn the effect on. We got all the knobs up at midnight.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

So, we got a nice chorus there, a pretty standard sound. Let’s take a look at the ways we can change the sound. Of course we got the intensity knob. That’s probably important as far as chorus goes. You turn it down...,

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

...you don’t really have too much going on there. You can hear a little pitch bend...

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

...but really not much in the way of chorusing. So, if we turn that all the way up...

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

...that’s a pretty deep chorus. Let’s turn that back down. Let’s check the width knob.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

...turn that down.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

I got to turn the intensity up.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

I’m getting sort of a resonant hollow sound...

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

...from that.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

It could be useful for like funk applications. I’m going to switch to the bridge pickup.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

It could be useful for that. I’m going to go back to the neck pickup and move the width knob back up.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

You can get a very, very effected signal. You can hear a lot of the pitch bending in there as well. Let’s check the rate knob. Let’s see how slow this can go.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

It’s almost like a phaser. Let’s see if we turn this up all the way.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

Very nice. I like the speed on that. It doesn’t go too high. Also to help shape our tone, we have treble and bass control. We can take out a lot of the bass.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

We get that cold sort of tone. We can warm it up a little bit.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

We can also do similar stuff with the treble.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

And also give it more treble.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

Also we have this little button here. It’s a filter switch. When we turn that on, you’re going to get.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

I’m going to switch back and forth.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING THE FENDER AMERICAN STANDARD TELECASTER THROUGH A MARSHALL JCM2000 AND SHURE SM57 WITH THE DUNLOP MXR STEREO CHORUS ENGAGED]

So actually what that is is a low-shelf filter. When you press it in, it’s kind of attenuating some of the lower frequencies. I can kind of see that picture there and it kind of doesn’t as the picture where it treats the frequency kind of like that where it’s going across and down, and then across. So, that’s the MXR stereo chorus pedal. Thanks for checking it out with us here at Gearwire.Com.