Sound Definitions

Sound effects : chorus

In music technology, chorus is an effect caused by taking an audio signal and mixing it with several delayed copies of itself and/or several pitch-shifted copies of itself. The resulting sound simulates the sound of several instruments or voices where there is really only one. Stereo chorus produces the same effect, but the chorus effect varies between the left and right channels.

The Chorus Effect refers to the way that several instruments playing slightly out of tune with each other resolve into one sound that does not sound out of tune. This is highly important, as the average strings ensemble would sound dreadful without it.

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