Johnny Marr’s Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble

Based on Johnny Marr’s own words, he likely used a Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble on some of the early recordings he did with The Smiths. While this isn’t fully confirmed, his description of the pedal—as having a stereo split and both chorus and vibrato features—makes the CE-1 the most likely candidate.

I used to use a couple of chorus pedals. In the studio, I was using one of the old Roland stereo-split choruses and it just happened that it had a great vibrato. It’s one of those which has got vibrato on one button and chorus on the other and I use those effects on nearly all the sessions.

Johnny Marr – original source needed

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