MichaelW
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This pedal has been sitting completed except for the one blasted part I was missing, the DPDT Toggle. I could have sworn I had some but when I went to build it, I didn't have it. So I figured, the fastest way to get one was from Amazon. So I went ahead and built the pedal out waiting for my 2 day Ammy shipping....which turned into 4 days. Then when they dropped off the package it was........empty......
. So then I had to wait another 4 days for the replacements.
In the meantime, I ordered some from Tayda and some from a different Amazon vendor. Of course they ALL showed up today, I have DPDT On-On-On toggles out the wazoo now hahah.
Also, when I went and looked at the build doc to pull the parts, I missed the part about 1/8th watt resistors and I obviously didn't look too closely at the board, until AFTER I had put together all the 1/4 watt resistors. The idea of putting all those resistors back into their baggies was just too much, so I built it out with then 1/4's standing up.
So aside from those two misadventures, the build went pretty smooth. The 4u7 caps I had were lo profile but slight fatter than normal and I could not fit them all into the pretty tight footprint so I had to mount one of them on the back of the board.
This is my first Lectric FX build and I've been wanting to build this pedal ever since @Fingolfen posted his build a ways back. I didn't know there was a DIY CE-1 (ish) project until I saw his build. This board is pretty modified for DIY and for guitar and does away with some of the elements of the Boss CE-1 but the result is a chorus pedal that sounds very close to the CE-1 but MUCH more DIY and guitar friendly.
Biasing it was dead simple and I had it up and running (after installing the toggle) in pretty short order. Totally nails the CE-1 sound on a strat.
It's a pretty "timeframed" sound in my opinion. It's kind of dated 80's type chorus as opposed to the more "timeless" character of some other chorus pedals like the CE-2 or Small Clone. Having said that, it sounds AWESOME. Very quiet operation too, unlike the original.
One of the things missing in this project is the pre-amp, which I think adds a little warmth and body. But lo and behold I have the Celsius Preamp, which is the preamp from the CE-1, Woohooo! Running the Celsius in front of the Karaoke was really the bees knees.
The 3 way toggle has a Vibrato setting, a Vibe+Chorus, and a Chorus.
I decided to create a down and dirty demo showing some of the sounds (even though @Guardians of the analog did one not too long ago).
So I tried to do some different sounds and put it into the context of a familiar guitar part.
Super cool pedal!
The choice of material for the demo is for @Fingolfen
. So then I had to wait another 4 days for the replacements.In the meantime, I ordered some from Tayda and some from a different Amazon vendor. Of course they ALL showed up today, I have DPDT On-On-On toggles out the wazoo now hahah.
Also, when I went and looked at the build doc to pull the parts, I missed the part about 1/8th watt resistors and I obviously didn't look too closely at the board, until AFTER I had put together all the 1/4 watt resistors. The idea of putting all those resistors back into their baggies was just too much, so I built it out with then 1/4's standing up.
So aside from those two misadventures, the build went pretty smooth. The 4u7 caps I had were lo profile but slight fatter than normal and I could not fit them all into the pretty tight footprint so I had to mount one of them on the back of the board.
This is my first Lectric FX build and I've been wanting to build this pedal ever since @Fingolfen posted his build a ways back. I didn't know there was a DIY CE-1 (ish) project until I saw his build. This board is pretty modified for DIY and for guitar and does away with some of the elements of the Boss CE-1 but the result is a chorus pedal that sounds very close to the CE-1 but MUCH more DIY and guitar friendly.
Biasing it was dead simple and I had it up and running (after installing the toggle) in pretty short order. Totally nails the CE-1 sound on a strat.
It's a pretty "timeframed" sound in my opinion. It's kind of dated 80's type chorus as opposed to the more "timeless" character of some other chorus pedals like the CE-2 or Small Clone. Having said that, it sounds AWESOME. Very quiet operation too, unlike the original.
One of the things missing in this project is the pre-amp, which I think adds a little warmth and body. But lo and behold I have the Celsius Preamp, which is the preamp from the CE-1, Woohooo! Running the Celsius in front of the Karaoke was really the bees knees.
The 3 way toggle has a Vibrato setting, a Vibe+Chorus, and a Chorus.
I decided to create a down and dirty demo showing some of the sounds (even though @Guardians of the analog did one not too long ago).
So I tried to do some different sounds and put it into the context of a familiar guitar part.
Super cool pedal!
The choice of material for the demo is for @Fingolfen
