Best chorus pedals 2024: top choices for your 'board

An Eventide TriceraChorus guitar pedal on a stone floor
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Chorus pedals have been around for a long time, and although they're typically associated with bands from the 80s, it's a hugely versatile effect that has a place on any guitar player's pedalboard. The best chorus pedals allow you to add subtle thickening, Leslie-rotary style tones, or that wobbly, seasick detuning sound, making them more than just an excuse to play 'Come As You Are'.

Many chorus pedals also feature flanger or vibrato sounds built into them, which further adds to their usability. Specific pedals can be used in stereo too, which results in a huge sound that moves from one guitar amp to the other, adding width and movement to your guitar tones. If you've got a stereo set up then we highly recommend trying it for yourself, you'll get some huge sounds out of a stereo chorus pedal.

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Michael Astley-Brown
Editor-in-Chief, GuitarWorld.com

Mike is Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com, in addition to being an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict. He has a master's degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and over a decade's experience writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as 20 years of recording and live experience in original and function bands. During his career, he has interviewed the likes of John Frusciante, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, Tom DeLonge, Ed O'Brien, Polyphia, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young and many more. In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock under the nom de plume Maebe.

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