Caesar Chorus

finebyfine

finebyfine

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Boxed this one up early this morning! I love the early mornings before sunrise. I haven't been able to spend much time building since the tattoo shop opened up full swing and it was rewarding to finish off a super polished build.

I built this for an artist who plays bass after asking for @peccary 's advice - hope your shoulder is feeling better. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I had the same experience as many on here who never liked choruses until using one of these. I absolutely get it now. I have a half populated board for myself that is being pushed higher up on my project list and I reordered this exact enclosure job from Tayda a few hours ago.

Enclosure is my old standby uv-printed matte black sand from Tayda with two passes of white. Still absolutely floored that I can get these made up for $20. Huge thanks as well to @fig for the BBD clock. Tim is the man if there ever was one.
edit: a few build notes:
- 2u2 caps in place of LEDs for wave shaper as recommended by @PedalPCB
- trimpot setting guide from @bowanderror

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fig said:
You deserve and just gave yourself the best! You did the 3PDT differently. More room?
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The 3PDT breakout board in the original was a test one I got fabricated that is more accommodating to my ride or die screw terminals and a little bit shorter I think than the PedalPCB one. I didn't even realize it until seeing your comment. Last night I was SO confused as to why I was having so much more trouble getting everything boxed up than on the first. There's still some more changes I'd have to make for it to replace the PedalPCB one as my go to board, which I should probably get around to now that I remember I was even working on it.

Guilherme Collateral said:
Wich knob model is this?
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Goes by a few different names but: Contempo Mini on Small Bear, Brutalist Mini on Love My Switches and Jove Styled 14mm on Modular Addict. All the exact same knob.

jeffwhitfield said:
Now if I can only get mine working. 🤪
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It's a tricky one for sure - I had a super hard time biasing the BBD even on a second go and my wire placement was wildly affecting the overall circuit noise and I had to be much more mindful than usual. Where's yours giving you trouble?
 
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finebyfine said:
It's a tricky one for sure - I had a super hard time biasing the BBD even on a second go and my wire placement was wildly affecting the overall circuit noise and I had to be much more mindful than usual. Where's yours giving you trouble?
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Gah, where do I even begin? Well, at first I was getting no effect and no output with the Blend set to full CW. Rate was working since the LED was showing the speed. With the Blend at full CCW, the volume was really low. I switched out the trimmer and now the volume is back up to normal...but I'm still not getting anything when I turn up the Blend. One poster suggested that it might be the MN3102 I had, which he thought might be fake. So I returned the batch of MN3207 and MN3102 to the eBay seller I got them from. Fig sent me a V3102 and V3207 so once I get them I'll start testing again. I did order a batch of V3102's though. V3207's are still sold out everywhere. :P
 
finebyfine said:
The 3PDT breakout board in the original was a test one I got fabricated that is more accommodating to my ride or die screw terminals and a little bit shorter I think than the PedalPCB one. I didn't even realize it until seeing your comment. Last night I was SO confused as to why I was having so much more trouble getting everything boxed up than on the first. There's still some more changes I'd have to make for it to replace the PedalPCB one as my go to board, which I should probably get around to now that I remember I was even working on it.



Goes by a few different names but: Contempo Mini on Small Bear, Brutalist Mini on Love My Switches and Jove Styled 14mm on Modular Addict. All the exact same knob.



It's a tricky one for sure - I had a super hard time biasing the BBD even on a second go and my wire placement was wildly affecting the overall circuit noise and I had to be much more mindful than usual. Where's yours giving you trouble?
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Awesome man, thanks a lot! Your pedal looks very classy!
 
finebyfine said:
The 3PDT breakout board in the original was a test one I got fabricated that is more accommodating to my ride or die screw terminals and a little bit shorter I think than the PedalPCB one. I didn't even realize it until seeing your comment. Last night I was SO confused as to why I was having so much more trouble getting everything boxed up than on the first. There's still some more changes I'd have to make for it to replace the PedalPCB one as my go to board, which I should probably get around to now that I remember I was even working on it.



Goes by a few different names but: Contempo Mini on Small Bear, Brutalist Mini on Love My Switches and Jove Styled 14mm on Modular Addict. All the exact same knob.



It's a tricky one for sure - I had a super hard time biasing the BBD even on a second go and my wire placement was wildly affecting the overall circuit noise and I had to be much more mindful than usual. Where's yours giving you trouble?
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The Brutalist is rapidly becoming my favorite knob
 
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