capture audio, you simply hold down the
footswitch for the duration of the chord
progression or picking pattern you want to
loop. The Reverse delay was a ton of fun
too, though the reverse repeats had a vague,
but perceptible digital quality to the swells.
The Flashback’s TonePrints aren’t all subtle variations on existing parameters. I downloaded Guns N’ Roses guitarist Bumblefoot’s
Alienmimic delay, which matches your dry
signal with repeats that sound like a scrambled transmission from a busted satellite—a
texture that works surprisingly well for atmospheric slide work. The Bumblefoot Dual
Delay TonePrint gives the illusion of two
delays working at a slightly offset rate, which
I dialed in with the Feedback and FX Level
knobs at about 10 o’clock for some cool
eighth-note “Another Brick in the Wall”-flavored picking. The differences in texture
between this Dual Delay Toneprint and the
onboard 2290 mode set to the same levels
were subtle. But the extra wash in the signal
was worth the investigation and the time
required to hook up the pedal and download the TonePrint—a process that took
two minutes at most.
Rating:
Corona Chorus
The green Corona Chorus is a straightforward and easy-to-use chorus pedal with
a fairly wide range of modulation from
very subtle to radical. The control set is a
conventional array of Level, Speed, Depth,
and Tone controls. But the pedal also has
an additional switch that enables on-the-fly
activation of a Tri-Chorus that you can use
in stereo mode for a rich chorus comprising
slightly offset depth and speed settings that
sounds super wide.
The Corona provided one of the more
interesting studies of the potential to transform the pedal’s character via a TonePrint
download. In this case, I downloaded the
Orianthi chorus, which was a pleasant but
subtle chorus with all the controls set to
noon. Setting everything to just about 2
o’clock, however, gave the Chorus, with it’s
new Orianthi-informed identity, a sweet,
swelling Leslie quality that sounded quite
nice for Abbey Road or Dark Side of the
Moon rotary-speaker colors.
Switching back to standard Chorus
mode, however conjured a less smooth
and slightly digital-sounding chorus—
not unpleasant, but a distinctly more
Tri-Chorus
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