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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: ESPm2M on August 29, 2004, 04:11:09 PM

Title: What is the best DIY Chorus?
Post by: ESPm2M on August 29, 2004, 04:11:09 PM
The Zombie Chorus? I heard that people had problems with these, namely a clicking with the LFO.  I also heard there was a work around for this.

Anyway, so what is the best?
Title: What is the best DIY Chorus?
Post by: Samuel on August 29, 2004, 04:36:35 PM
I've built two clones of the Small Clone from Tonepad and I'm extremely pleased with them. Be warned, though, it's not an over-the-top effect, but I think it sounds fantastic. I'm planning to do the delay time mod listed in the build reports, which may give it a bit more versatility....In any case, I recommend it.
Title: What is the best DIY Chorus?
Post by: Thomas P. on August 29, 2004, 05:02:22 PM
I built the zombie and never had the 'ticking' problem. Others had but Mark did some improvements to the circuit. He added a seperate bias networt to serve the LFO which - at least I think so - prevents ticking.
Anyway it its quite easy to build and sounds fantastic - I love it! Check out the ringmodulator-mod posted on munkys homepage :wink:
Title: What is the best DIY Chorus?
Post by: jimbob on August 29, 2004, 07:02:09 PM
Does anyone know of any mods that can be done to the EH commercial pedal like the Diy one?
Title: What is the best DIY Chorus?
Post by: Samuel on August 29, 2004, 07:04:48 PM
The mods posted in regard to the Tonepad layout are really very straightforward. I think the Depth pot mod is basically replacing a couple resistors and a switch with a pot. IIRC the delay time mod is also very straightforward, so as long as the TonePad schematic is close to the original (I can't remember if it is a work-alike or a direct copy) then those mods should be easy to pull off.
Title: What is the best DIY Chorus?
Post by: sir_modulus on August 29, 2004, 08:55:25 PM
Quote from: jimbobDoes anyone know of any mods that can be done to the EH commercial pedal like the Diy one?

sure they can, If you got a real DIY EH pedal(if the circuit is realatively close( things like opamp changes may not all work on different versions, but small things like decreasing/increasing range, more/less bass, etc... will work(thought some may require a bit of work if you have a different version)) Only chorus to avoid (if not very confident) is the Neo/Univibe one.
Title: What is the best DIY Chorus?
Post by: ESPm2M on August 29, 2004, 09:15:38 PM
great thanks for the feedback.  I think  might go ahead and build the Zombie after I finish my stage center reverb (ggg) and Univibe (ggg). Of course that will not be for a while so if someone has had good experiences with other DIY designs, please let me know so that I can continue to compare them .

thanks
Title: What is the best DIY Chorus?
Post by: Fret Wire on August 30, 2004, 12:44:28 AM
Has anyone cloned the  Boss CE-2 yet?
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