Odyssey - A Caesar Chorus

The Gator

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Just finished this one. I'm not a huge chorus person, but this circuit sounds awesome!
Built it pretty much stock. I meant to try substituting 2.2uf mlcc caps in for the red leds, but I forgot about it once I started playing through it.
The enclosure is Tayda Ball silver.
The image is actually Gemini generated. I wanted to try it. Personally I think it still has a long way to go as it didn't work very well at first and then the more times I changed my request the worse it got lol. Eventually I started with a clean slate and came up with something I liked. It's printed on an interesting silver vinyl that gives it a nice reflective quality much like the Box. Next time I think I'll do a chromium box and silver printable foil to get just a little bit more out of it. I use water clear bright white 3 mm LEDs with very large 47k CLR resistors. That way they don't blind you. I like the way it looks maybe next time I'll try blue.

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We built and reported the same pedal the same day, and went totally different style directions. Cool.
 
Exactly!
That is what I love about this hobby/addiction. I love to see what other people use for their graphics. Sometimes I use the name that Robert came up with, and sometimes I listen to the sound of the pedal after it's built, and it makes me want to name it something different.
I really like your graphic and font to go with the name Caesar. That enclosure goes perfectly with it as well!
I played through the circuit on the test board and thought to myself, best chorus I have used! What an adventure!
So the name Odyssey came to mind.
Then I thought about the old Boston album Graphics. Guitar shaped spacecraft! I went through a really old book about spacecraft I used to have as a teenager. Nothing really hit me. So I used "Guitar shaped rocketship, with blue flames, taking off from a launch pad, headed into space towards a new world" as image generator data and it came up with something close enough to what I was thinking. I already had the knobs from a project that ended up with a different color.
This stuff is fun. I am having a good time!
 
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