Best Chorus Pedal Under $100 - Cheap Chorus Pedal Shootout

What’s the best chorus pedal under $100? We tested 12 top-selling chorus pedals for guitar under $100 in this bracket-style tournament. Three of our No Fear gear Guides test each pedal and share with you how they sound, what they observed, and which cheap chorus pedal is best. Check out this chorus pedal shootout and tell us in the comments which was your favorite. 👂🏼

Meet the No Fear Guitar Gear Team:
• @SteveSterlacci
• @JayLeonardJ
• @TomButwin
• Host- Tracy Hoeft

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
0:07 Shootout Begins
13:03 Semi-Finals
18:03 Final Shootout

FEATURED CHORUS PEDALS:

🔊 Signal Chain: VOX AC10 Custom amp and an SM57
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[katipunero]

Wow! This is the best comparison I’ve ever watched on YouTube. Please make more like this.

[-vickyspit-]

Love this kind of video, but hearing the pedals through what sounds like a camera mic getting sound from an amp at the back wall is gonna make me check outta this one.

[ChristieHaack]

All 3 finalists sounded really good! Great price points for gifts too!

[mattg]

Wow. The $100 JHS loses to the $24 Azor.

[eduardocardenal]

i didn't like the sound of that guitar, but azor sounds best to me

[icollided]

Why did TC Electronic not put stereo outputs on the 3rd dimension? weird!

[dwstoeckel]

I have mostly all budget gear... my most expensive pedal is a Boss bluesdriver, .... I have a Behringer analog delay, Danelectro EQ, .... and now, after watching this, a NUX analog chorus...it just arrived today and I’m really happy w it!

[TomButwin]

I’m rethinking all of my choices! Haha

[Matb]

Beautiful video! I have a nux chorus too 😎

[rbradburke]

I love how one of these guys (I've seen him in several of these) uses these incredibly nebulous and subjective descriptions of what he's hearing which on the surface sound good but are so subjective and vague. I like asking these types of people, "what exactly does mean?" This usually reveals that they're just using lingo/group-speak to sound like they experts and hearing all this "stuff" but in the end if they were blindfolded, they wouldn't have anything solid to rely on. I'm not saying this guy is that. Rather, I'm saying that when someone repeatedly does this it is so cringy annoying and I wish they would use less subjective, more reliable descriptors.

[MrBarnejstinson]

I have unbranded verision of kmise, it didn't cut thru youtube but it has some fun lofi quality to it -it's just like lofi version of ce-2. Very fun video, agreed with almost all your choises.

[ricklachaine]

Good video. I’m pretty sure the JHS has higher build quality than any of the others demoed here. For that reason alone I would buy it. I mean they all sound good, it all depends on what sound you’re looking for. The JHS is still very affordable in context of boutique builders.

[ChurchOfTheHolyMho]

Researching chorus pedals, and at the moment, I'm liking the Azor, Kmise analog, and Mosky... It fantastic to hear how some sub $25 chorus pedals made it to the final and actually can hold their own against the big boys. So many good chorus pedals!

I'm ultimately replacing an 80s Digitech rack delay that is behaving badly, so I'm also considering some of the digital multieffect pedals (such as offerings from Sonicake or Joyo) - but you can buy the Azor and the Kmise analog together for less... lol.

What a great dilemma to have... which is why videos like this are very useful. I get to hear the pros/cons on the different pedals from the different players' perspective - as well as on guitar / pickup configurations I don't have. Very helpful. Thanks!