I’ve juist build a Lithium from AION Fx which is an EHX Small clone with a mix control and a depth pot instead of the 2 way switch.
I didn’t get any chorus at first which turned out to be a broken bias trimpot.
In the description it says this about the depth control:
Depth knob
The original Small Clone only had a 2-position depth switch to change the intensity of the chorus sound. We’ve converted this to a potentiometer that allows fine-tuning the depth across the whole range and beyond, instead of being stuck with two presets.
I was expecting a linear depth control but it’s not behaving that way. I demonstrated that EHX pedal in the past and I remember the two settings also affected the rate where one side could go into Leslie kinda territory and the other was slow(er). The issue I have is that the rate is not affected linearly by the depth knob. Somewhere around the center there’s a max rate which reduces to either sides. Maybe that’s the design Kevin did but its not very user friendly IMO.
I have no deep knowledge about the MN3007 or the CD4047 so maybe someone can validate that the behavior of the depth knob as I’m describing is correct?
Here’s the documentation and schematic: https://aionfx.com/app/files/docs/lithium_documentation.pdf
I didn’t get any chorus at first which turned out to be a broken bias trimpot.
In the description it says this about the depth control:
Depth knob
The original Small Clone only had a 2-position depth switch to change the intensity of the chorus sound. We’ve converted this to a potentiometer that allows fine-tuning the depth across the whole range and beyond, instead of being stuck with two presets.
I was expecting a linear depth control but it’s not behaving that way. I demonstrated that EHX pedal in the past and I remember the two settings also affected the rate where one side could go into Leslie kinda territory and the other was slow(er). The issue I have is that the rate is not affected linearly by the depth knob. Somewhere around the center there’s a max rate which reduces to either sides. Maybe that’s the design Kevin did but its not very user friendly IMO.
I have no deep knowledge about the MN3007 or the CD4047 so maybe someone can validate that the behavior of the depth knob as I’m describing is correct?
Here’s the documentation and schematic: https://aionfx.com/app/files/docs/lithium_documentation.pdf
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