CH-5

Great sound for a subitle clean chours sound.  This is not the pedal for you if you are wanting to tweak the spead and rate all the way.  At a medium setting the CH-5 works well with distiortion.  Just watch high-output pickups....they will distort the input on the pedal.

Its a BOSS.

With the split EQ knob big hands dont make quick transitions.

From light acustic alternitive to distorted grunge this pedal sounds great.  I have been able to get a creamier sound out of the pedal by running into an effects box from the 80's called an "801 omnisonic imager"  The box makes anything two channels fat. I compaired the CH-5 with the CH-1 and found that the CH-5 better because of the split EQ.

This pedal isn't without it's charm. It adds a bright rich harmonic tone to the high frequency notes and is extremly quiet. But that's just not enough to save it: It's very sterile sounding to me and it's too subtle. I've tweaked it and tweaked it till I found it's deepest sound. It's noticably different when changing from clean, but if I was playing with it on and another guitarist was listening I assure you they wouldn't notice. An effect needs to have a unique sound, not a slight variation on an existing one. Not very thick/lush/wet/warm. The sound thickens up nicely when you've got 2 of these on though.

Built tough, I've never had a problem with Boss pedals, nice silent switching

I play alternative hard rock like Jane's Addiction. I'd love this baby to be more vintage, so I think I'll trade it eventually for Analogue. Or maybe I'll get another one, because this actually sounds reasonable mixed with my BF-2 flanger, So if I have 2 of them with them both set a little more subtly I'll find that rich sound (?) I can allways try in the shop I guess.