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phostenix
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jack
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 Posted - 04/29/2006 : 04:02:20
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I find it amusing that people end up paying more on eBay for certain used items than they would for the exact item, but brand new. Apparently some people are not aware of the concept of comparative shopping, or they just think that you can never find anything outside the "world" of eBay. That being said, I wish I would have never gotten rid of my Arion Stereo Chorus. I had the exact same model of the one that got close to $400  . |
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lamkelf
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StratoSphere
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Canada
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Posted - 04/29/2006 : 07:50:08
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| arent those Arion pedals made of plastic, and sound like crap. i think my friend used to have a Metal master or something. it was garbage. hmmm |
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jack
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Posted - 04/29/2006 : 08:01:48
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| Yeah, the Arion pedals were, and still are, made of plastic. As far as sound, I cannot remember as I had it in high school, but I'm sure it was not good, though at the time I thought it was good because it was one of the first pedals I ever got. I'm wondering if I could get $500 for my old Gorilla Tube Cruncher practice amp that I've had it since the mid 80's....I could just call it vintage, Serial #000725 Sept-Nov 1986, and they still make these amps... |
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lightburst
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Posted - 04/29/2006 : 10:35:54
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I've heard that the Arion chorus is used by Mike Landau and I remember the Stage Tuner was a good pedal for a reasonable price. So they aren't bad pedals by nature but in no way worth a couple of hundreds of $ or �. Here in Germany you can get a Arion Chorus MIJ for far less than �100 if you are not hasty  |
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jack
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Posted - 04/29/2006 : 16:11:31
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| Yeah, I have heard that the stage tuner is actually pretty good and accurate up to +/- 1 cent (just for reference, I think the TU-2 is +/- 3 cent), however, last time I looked in those as a possible option, they do not have a mute function. Is Arion still making a wide variety of pedals these days, or just a few likt the tuner? Just wondering for curiousity sake. |
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phostenix
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Posted - 04/29/2006 : 18:01:41
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Arion made 2 good pedals - the SCH-1 & the SAD-1 (Stereo Analog Delay). The SCH-1 usually goes about $100, the SAD-1 around $80. I've never heard the SAD-1, but it gets good reviews & it's the only reasonably priced analog delay left, it seems. The SCH-1 is really good at Leslie rotary speaker simulation. It also can create a cool synth like sound with the right distortion in front of it, too. I haven't spent the time to trace out the schematic to see how it differs from other choruses, but I do notice a slight flange-like sound to it with palmmuting that makes me wonder if it has some feedback circuitry that choruses usually don't have. It's got a sound of its own & it can be very cool. It doesn't do the slow, sweet chorus of a CE-2 well, though.
Arion now sells the SCH-Z stereo chorus which is not the same as the old SCH-1. The main problem with it is that the tone control is never flat - you either get a bass boost or a treble boost. The SCH-Z is the same circuit as the old SFC-1 (Stereo Fat Chorus), so don't fall for spending a bunch of money on the rare old SFC-1 like I did!
I can see a mint SCH-1 with box & manual going for $200, but that price was just beyond resonable.
Arion's plastic cases are actually pretty durable, much better than Ibanez' Soundtanks, anyway. They don't provide the shielding that metal cases do, so I did have trouble once with the SCH-1 picking up radio interference at one church.
An EH Small Clone usually goes that high for an original version (Kurt Cobain), but the re-issues never go that high.
Grace and peace,
Steve
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