Splicing Eye...

[petemoore]

I've been trying to develop sight in my 'splicing eye'...perhaps you could take a look at this vision and tell me if it's an obvious choice or has unseen problems.
 Build phazing stages using LDR's for the shift.
 Build some 555 blinking LED ckts.
 Isolate the LEDS to the LDR's in light shields.
 !! EZ Phaze ??
 Barring any glaring 'can't do that's' [see any yet?]...
 Pros and Cons of:
 1 Having more than one LED per 555 ckt.
 2 Having multiple LEDS [with separate speed adjustable 555 timers] per LDR
 3 to keep the click out of the sigpath, I could put the timers on a different PS?
 4 ...the question that I cannot yet intelligibly form, that needs to be adressed...lol...
 To my half trained splicing eye, this would like a great alternative for an 'EZ' to build, phazer that would have more complex algorythm to the sweep.
 Any thoughts...

[computerjones]

if you need seperate power supplys, wouldnt that start to take away from the E-Z factor.  also, the 555 is a pretty bad choice for a lfo.  it only will output a square wave without special circuitry, which again would make it less E-Z.  there are other choices for lfo's that are quite simple also, possibly a simple 2 opamp type.  also have you checked out the EZ vibe?
good luck

[mattv]

I think what makes it easier is that you know why you're doing the circuit that way. When you just follow a schematic, it's not always so clear.

It might be nice to just have one LFO for half the stages and one for the other half (for a total of two LFOs), but one LFO for each stage could be cool, but I'd guess it's excessive.

As for the square-wave of the 555, the LDRs slow reaction time would help offset this, making the sweep somewhat more sine/saw-like.

[petemoore]

Is to have more than one LED [each separately speed controlled[ per LDR.
 I don't mind the extra PS hookup, that's Np.
 Having say three LED's per LDR [which to me isnt that much of a problem...each 555 ckt is about 2 bux 20 minutes...and have a complex algorythm to the 'sweep' might make things interesting sounding and take the repetitive up down wave from being noticable.
 Also by adjusting say the LED's set to the slowest cycle, adjusting their brightness so the LDR is causing pronounced yet pleasing waves.