Band of Dans
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I've been on a bit of a modulation kick lately, starting with the ever-popular Caesar. This one's been populated for almost 6 months but I really wanted to put it in a UV printed enclosure and just couldn't find the inspiration for some reason. Getting a UV printed enclosure in the mail is one of my favorite parts of the build process but I just dread creating the design for some reason. It was originally going to be called the "big salad" and was going to be a collage of different salad ingredient illustrations (Walrus Julia > Julia Luis-Dreyfus > Elaine from Seinfeld > the Big Salad episode. You get it.) But I'm not a visual artist and it was too hard so I gave up and went with blobs instead. I think it actually turned out pretty well! The enclosure is one of the powder drop specials from LMS and it's got a really neat iridescence and depth to it. Amplifyfun did a really nice job on the print and drill as well.
The halftone gradient was tricky to do in Inkscape; the built-in fill pattern tool is extremely janky and somehow managed to use up all my computer's RAM, crashing the program repeatedly. My advice to the 4 other Inkscape users here is to avoid that tool entirely and follow this tutorial instead. But this isn't an Inkscape report.
I did a pretty bog-standard build and didn't sub or mod anything except to combine the rate and power LED (thanks to @T-Go for the nice diagram). There are tons of demos and reviews out there for this thing and I think it deserves the popularity. The chorus sounds nice to me and the lag control is *way* more effective and interesting than I expected and lets you emulate lots of different chorus sounds. I like the vibrato as well, but unfortunately I finished a ViiB right after this one and there's just no denying the mojo in that thing. But if you only have room for one pedal and need both chorus and vibe, the Caesar is nice.
Apologies for not straightening out my electolytic caps before taking the gutshot. And the pot with a missing cover. And the tented resistors. SIgh.
The halftone gradient was tricky to do in Inkscape; the built-in fill pattern tool is extremely janky and somehow managed to use up all my computer's RAM, crashing the program repeatedly. My advice to the 4 other Inkscape users here is to avoid that tool entirely and follow this tutorial instead. But this isn't an Inkscape report.
I did a pretty bog-standard build and didn't sub or mod anything except to combine the rate and power LED (thanks to @T-Go for the nice diagram). There are tons of demos and reviews out there for this thing and I think it deserves the popularity. The chorus sounds nice to me and the lag control is *way* more effective and interesting than I expected and lets you emulate lots of different chorus sounds. I like the vibrato as well, but unfortunately I finished a ViiB right after this one and there's just no denying the mojo in that thing. But if you only have room for one pedal and need both chorus and vibe, the Caesar is nice.
Apologies for not straightening out my electolytic caps before taking the gutshot. And the pot with a missing cover. And the tented resistors. SIgh.
