CE-2B Bass Chorus

This is a Japanese pedal, 20+ years old and good for another 20 easy.

This is easy to use. With most properly designed pedals, setting all the knobs as 12 oclock is a good starting point - this one is no exception and set that way is a great chorus sound. Having both effect level and depth as two separate controls is perhaps a bit confusing but you soon get the hang of it. This pedal is equally suited to bass and guitar. It has everything that the CE-2 has plus and effect level control to blend direct and effect together - so no reason why it is bass-guitar specific at all! The only problem I have had with it is using an external 9V supply the juice is not enough to light the LED (still sounds OK) - this is a problem with early Japan Boss pedals, they dropped the voltage on the DC input with a resistor so it works fine on a 9V battery but may be tricky on 9V external input. As I said it works OK sound wise but with a very dim led. There is a mod you can do to remove the led I think - or use a 12V PSU.

A bargain - Japan CE-2 pedals sell for big bucks these days - this is basically the same thing with an extra knob to blend the effect and I got it cheap. Its a great analog chorus pedal - I recommend it.

im using a ampeg svt av reissue tube monster with a yorkville 8x8 cabinet with a amercian series jazz bass ,i find the sound actually quiet for a pedal ,ive played for 20 years an never used chorus till i tried this pedal ,tried different other ones wasnt happy till this pedal .very nice an doesnt effect your original tone of your amp just makes it better .it made an awsome sounding rig to a amazing sounding rig

ive heard nothing but good things about boss pedals ,i will use it with out a back up ,im very happy with the sound ,i never though id find a good chorus till this one i tried wow amazing

excellant sounding an easy to find a good sound ,no manual was lucky to buy it from a friend who bought it 10 years a go used,the unit seems to be all stock

never had to use customer service ,with a pedal this solid im sure they would be there if needed

i play new an classic hard rock ,over 20 years playin ,i run an svt with a 8x8 yorkville cabinet with fender jazz bass ,no other gear except chorus pedal ,if stolen i would replace this pedal ,ive tried zoom dod ross various different racks wasnt happy ,i chose this one because my friend said try it out he had it for years .a jazz bass through a svt is pretty hard to beat an this chorus pedal ce-2b makes it sound amazing .nice full an pronouced sound ,it makes me play more on the edge more confident, if you   sound better you push your self more ....

This thing is really good sounding, comparing it to some other bass choruses that I've heard (ZOOM 506's chorus, and Ibanez). It gives you that really deep sounding 3D chorus sound. I've also tried some guitar choruses, but they are all oscillating in mid frequencies, so you get, like, cheap radio sounding chorus. You can totaly get TOOL sound with it. My setup is: Yamaha BBN4 III (2 passive humbuckers) -> Fender chromatic tuner -> parametic EQ -> BOSS HM-2 distortion -> BOSS CE-2B -> BOSS Delay Machine analog delay -> 100W Acustic amp. This chorus + Delay gives you GREATEST 3D sound you can imagine. Crowd is usually shocked with the sound on our gigs, since people usually don't expect from bass guitar to sound like that. Only complaint is that it's to weak for me... sometimes I just need more chorus added, but the level pot is all away to the max... Offcourse, it depends on what kind of sound you wont. I like more psychedelic, with less dry signal, and more chorus, but lot of other people that I've gave this pedal to didn't have such problems. So I guess it's me than :))). I didn't have chance to compare it to CEB-3 (which is probably much better than this one), but I didn't have much choice, since this was the only bass chorus in my city...

Well, haven't heard so far that anyone had problems with BOSS pedals in term of reliability, so I gues it's the same with this pedal. I take care of all my pedals, and so far I dodn't have any problems with it.

Not much to say here... 3 knobs: rate, effect level and depth.

I play mostly hardcore/emo/punk. I play bass for 7 years now. I've bought this unit only becayse I didn't have much choice (only ZOOM 506 processor). I would rather go for the new on (CEB-3). For me, this thing only lacks intensity, and one more knob for frequency.