MXR releases Wylde Audio Chorus with overdrive and phaser

January 8, 2024 · 3 sources

The MXR Wylde Audio Chorus was released by MXR together with a Wylde Audio overdrive and a Wylde Audio phaser, according to Delicious Audio, which published its report on Jan. 8, 2024¹. The chorus commemorates the two-decade partnership between Dunlop and Zakk Wylde, guitarist of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society¹. The phaser is described as celebrating the 20th anniversary of the collaboration between Dunlop and Zakk Wylde².

The chorus is an analog pedal built around bucket-brigade circuitry, which the sources describe as delivering warm, vintage-style chorus texture³¹. Its controls are Level, Rate and Depth, plus High-cut and Low-cut filters that shape the effect's tone; Delicious Audio calls the filters "rather peculiar (for a chorus)"³¹. Dual outputs allow two amplifiers to be connected for stereo modulation, and Delicious Audio states that the extra output lets through the clean signal³¹.

The phaser has a single Rate knob, which the source says takes the effect "from a slow grind to a jack hammering pulse," and notes Wylde uses it at the 9 o'clock position for a slow sweep². The chorus runs on 9V DC, center negative, at 13mA³; the phaser runs on 9V DC, center negative, at 5mA². No prices or US availability dates are given in the sources.

The chorus sits among the site's chorus pedals.