MichaelW
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So I'm late to the party with my build report as you've probably seen a few of these builds.
Another gift from my pal @Guardians of the analog.
I know he's been working on this project for a long time, but it seems like as soon as he brought @dan.schumaker onto the
project it got done lickity split.
Another great project from our resident Boss pedal historian and Schutone.
Chris has been talking up this chorus for at least a year that I can think of. Since I had never played one I would just nod my head
and said "mm-hmmm, oh you don't say? Sounds interesting......" whenever Chris would start waxing poetic about "the best Chorus pedal" blah blah blah.......
So I was pretty stoked to build this and was planning to finish it up today and spend the afternoon playing.
Unfortunately, that's not how things worked out.
Once I got it all put together I went to test it and had some strange results using my tone generator on my bench amp.
So I grabbed a guitar and as soon as I turned the pedal on it started howling like a banshee.
I mean some SERIOUSLY LOUD oscillation. Jet engine whooshing like a flanger. I couldn't bias it and I could just barely hear the chorusing effect with the guitar only if I kept the depth and level knobs low.
IC voltages all looked good to me, and for the life of me I couldn't think of why it would be doing this.
Finally it got to the point that I needed to take it apart and take another look at all the solder joints but I needed to step away for a bit as I was pretty frustrated by this point.
So I got a cup of tea and a chocolate chip cookie (that my daughter baked for me yesterday
As I was schlurping tea and chomping on a cookie I also was looking over Chris' build post pictures to see if I could spot something obvious I did wrong......then I saw it..........CRAP how did I miss that? It turned out to be "something obvious I did wrong".
I forgot that Dan uses the I/O pad formats of having both the ground and hot pads next to each other with the hot pad being square.
All I saw was the words "In" and "Out" so I "assumed" that the pad next to the word designator would be the signal.
Welp, that's not how it was and in short I wired the jacks backwards.
Just goes to show that no matter how many pedals you've built everyone is still capable of dumbassery from time to time
.
Anyway, once I fixed that I was rewarded with lovely lush chorusing. I based it by ear (which wasn't hard) and it sounds great!
The 4 controls (Level, Rate, EQ, and Depth) really allow you a lot of flexibility in dialing in the sound you want. You can have it the main characteristic of your sound or have sit back in the background. You can get a chimey, crisp chorusing or a more mellow type of sound.
Very cool chorus pedal indeed!
Thanks Chris and Dan! Great project!
Another gift from my pal @Guardians of the analog.
I know he's been working on this project for a long time, but it seems like as soon as he brought @dan.schumaker onto the
project it got done lickity split.
Another great project from our resident Boss pedal historian and Schutone.
Chris has been talking up this chorus for at least a year that I can think of. Since I had never played one I would just nod my head
and said "mm-hmmm, oh you don't say? Sounds interesting......" whenever Chris would start waxing poetic about "the best Chorus pedal" blah blah blah.......
So I was pretty stoked to build this and was planning to finish it up today and spend the afternoon playing.
Unfortunately, that's not how things worked out.
Once I got it all put together I went to test it and had some strange results using my tone generator on my bench amp.
So I grabbed a guitar and as soon as I turned the pedal on it started howling like a banshee.
I mean some SERIOUSLY LOUD oscillation. Jet engine whooshing like a flanger. I couldn't bias it and I could just barely hear the chorusing effect with the guitar only if I kept the depth and level knobs low.
IC voltages all looked good to me, and for the life of me I couldn't think of why it would be doing this.
Finally it got to the point that I needed to take it apart and take another look at all the solder joints but I needed to step away for a bit as I was pretty frustrated by this point.
So I got a cup of tea and a chocolate chip cookie (that my daughter baked for me yesterday
As I was schlurping tea and chomping on a cookie I also was looking over Chris' build post pictures to see if I could spot something obvious I did wrong......then I saw it..........CRAP how did I miss that? It turned out to be "something obvious I did wrong".
I forgot that Dan uses the I/O pad formats of having both the ground and hot pads next to each other with the hot pad being square.
All I saw was the words "In" and "Out" so I "assumed" that the pad next to the word designator would be the signal.
Welp, that's not how it was and in short I wired the jacks backwards.
Just goes to show that no matter how many pedals you've built everyone is still capable of dumbassery from time to time
.Anyway, once I fixed that I was rewarded with lovely lush chorusing. I based it by ear (which wasn't hard) and it sounds great!
The 4 controls (Level, Rate, EQ, and Depth) really allow you a lot of flexibility in dialing in the sound you want. You can have it the main characteristic of your sound or have sit back in the background. You can get a chimey, crisp chorusing or a more mellow type of sound.
Very cool chorus pedal indeed!
Thanks Chris and Dan! Great project!
