Behringer announces budget version of Boss CE-1 chorus pedal

September 1, 2022 · 1 sources

Behringer announced it would be making a far more budget-friendly version of the Boss CE-1 chorus pedal, according to Guitar World¹. The report, published on September 12, 2022, gave no price for the clone, saying only that there had been no word on price yet¹.

The original Boss CE-1 was made in 1976 and, per Guitar World, was the first chorus effect placed in pedal format¹. The announcement of a clone came as a CE-1 with serial number S000001, said to be the first one off the production line, was listed on Reverb for $1,000,000¹. Guitar World reported that the listing's seller, Pedal Palace, wrote that the pedal works and that the case would be included in the sale¹.

Guitar World's report on the Behringer announcement did not describe the clone's controls, circuit or enclosure, and gave no release date¹. The report said of the price: "There's been no word on price yet, but we can't imagine it will be anywhere near $1,000,000"¹.

The CE-1 is a chorus pedal. Guitar World reported that the $1,000,000 listing described the pedal as "as rare as it gets" and that Reverb had predicted it would sell soon, with four people having it in their carts at the time of the report¹.