MXR Micro Chorus vs Visual Sound H2O V3 Chorus

The MXR Micro Chorus and the Visual Sound H2O V3 Chorus are both pedals. The MXR Micro Chorus leans warm and ambient. The Visual Sound H2O V3 Chorus leans pristine. Current prices: $119.22 vs $205.20.

Similarity
citedBlended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.

45% — somewhat different

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Price

$119.22via Reverb

$205.20via Reverb

Description

The MXR Micro Chorus is a compact BBD analog chorus pedal from MXR (Dunlop), delivering warm bucket-brigade chorus with Rate and a bright/normal switch in a small enclosure at accessible MXR pricing. The Micro Chorus provides classic MXR analog chorus character for clean, ambient, and classic rock guitar in a compact format.

The Visual Sound H2O Liquid Chorus & Echo V3 is a dual-effect pedal from Visual Sound (True Tone, Nashville, Tennessee), combining entirely independent hybrid analog/digital echo and all-analog chorus circuits in one unit. Each circuit sounds excellent independently, but the pedal's "true magic" is how it organically blends both effects in a way that two separate stomp boxes rarely replicate. At approximately $200, the H2O V3 delivers echo and chorus quality rivaling units in the $100-each range.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Alternative Rock
  • Classic Rock
  • Ambient
  • ambient
  • neo soul
  • lo fi
Tonal lean
  • warm
  • ambient
  • pristine

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