FIRST SOUNDS // Demedash Solaris Analog Tri-Chorus

Paul and I were fortunate to be in Steve’s good graces and be able to order some early prototypes from  ⁨@DemedashEffects⁩ ! The Solaris Analog Tri-Chorus is one we’re super keen on and know you’re going to love it too! Gather around one and all as Paul takes this baby on a ride and shows us all the pretty sounds it can do. And the lights! Oh the lights. By far my favorite light display on a pedal!

This baby is in stereo, so use headphones to get the full stereo effect!

What to know more about the Solaris? Here is some sage advice from the Demedash website,

“Circuitry that’s faithful to the classic Solina String Ensemble’s Tri-Chorus section in the sections where it counts most, generating enveloping stereo outputs that put you in the center of the three wavering analog delay lines.

An expanded feature set with modern intelligent control system to enable the hardware to do things that just weren’t possible in the 70’s. A tiny digital brain generates the LFOs, allowing for seamless switching between an array of 6 different chorus modes, some classic and some completely unique to this pedal.

Newly minted designs for preamp, mixer & output amplifier stages, custom-tailored for the broader array of use cases presented by the guitar pedal format.

A boost/cut control lets you keep the input clean even with very hot signals. You can alternately generate some beautiful, lightly compressed grit by turning the preamp control up high and overloading the input stage, which has been set up provide some pleasant extra grit that adds a bit of harmonic sweetness.

A gorgeous, pedalboard-ready box that can output some of the most mesmerizing stereo effects you’ve ever heard.

Intelligent mono/stereo output routing ensures you won’t only get half the effect if running the pedal in mono. If only one output is connected (to the left/mono jack), then all three voices are routed there. If you plug two output jacks in, the voices split between them left, right & centre, providing an enormous spacial effect that could give any reverb a run for its money in terms of atmosphere.

Because the stereo effect is generated via voice routing, the stereo output is safe to use with anything that may collapse the signal to mono, and won’t cause the issues sometimes run into when generating stereo fields via phase inversion. This is the perfect pedal to use at the junction where your board expands from mono into stereo.”