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Posted: Jan. 19 2006, 04:30 |
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Hey Anders, welcome to the board!
I can't say conclusively, but the Boss CE1 chorus was very popular at the time (though from what I can gather, the CE2 was released that year) and Mike may well have been using one of those. If that's the case, the JC-120's chorus is a close relative of that, so you stand a fair chance of getting a similar kind of chorus.
Mike was using a Fender Twin Reverb at the time for clean sounds. It's a little while since I played through either one of those or a JC-120, so I can't be too detailed in my description, but I would say that there will be a bit of a difference in the way the chorus comes across through the two. The JC-120 is really a lot cleaner sounding than the Fender - possibly an advantage with the Mike Oldfield type of sound, as he often goes for very pure clean sounds in the studio. The Fender has a kind of glassiness to it though, and I think that's a factor in the Exposed sound. Another factor, of course, is that maple bodied L6-S guitar, which has got quite a sparkly kind of sound when played clean.
Still, I'd think that a bit of fiddling with a JC-120 ought to get you somewhere not too far away from that sound.
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