Thanks for the huge compliments Barry, I do love me a good combo.  All of these really came from a desire to minimize the 9v cables I needed on my board, so I started pairing and grouping the pedals that I use into combo units to both limit the number of 9v connections I needed, as well as making a visually uniform pedalboard that was easy to navigate.

The Everland combines my favorite Delay and Chorus – the D’Lay and Mini-Me.  In previous builds I had done the tap tempo and associated mods, as well as the Buff’n Blend for the Chorus, but wanted to step it up a notch.  The Delay mods were simple, as I basically only had the WF runaway mod left to try, so I wired that up with a momentary footswitch, which has worked AMAZING for trailing off at the end of a song or doing some weird eerie stuff during a bridge.  I also had the tactile momentary switches handy, which are personally easier for me to tap in properly.

As for the Chorus, I love this chorus so much but wanted to take it to someplace “weird” so I added the Roto-Tone to the chorus in place of C8 and then added a DPTP switch in between to switch between “Bank A-C” or “Bank B-D”, giving me 8 total chorus ranges.  This is really a simplified version of Wilkie1’s Chorus mod, (avoiding his capacitor stacking math :-p ) that simply has 8 capacitor options to choose from to sculpt the chorus.  I used the following cap values for the filter mod:  1) 150pF  2) 220pF  3) 330pF  4) 100pF  5) 33pF  6) 22pF  7) 57pF  8) 470pF

These options provide such a wide range of tones, from classic to pronounced to downright wild and everyone who has tried it is thoroughly entertained by the tones.  I also get mad praise on the tone of the Delay so I will pass that praise straight on to you, Barry.  Thanks for making such a delicious and analog-sounding despite the necessary digital components!!

Thanks man! It’s definitely one of the most used pedals on the board now.  The tap tempo is held in place simply by being soldered to the tap switch.  I cut the leads off of a n4001 since they are heavier than most and soldered them to the switch so i could spread them far enough to hit the tap tempo holes.

The leds are another animal…mine are gorilla glued in place lol, but i would recommend possibly hot glue or something less runny as it seeped through around the leds and I had to carefully clean it off the face.  Maybe some other guys can chime in on how they keep leds in place without a bezel.  Alternately – I think you could prob use bezels, but you need to be very careful of spacing to both fit properly.  Hope this helps!

~Chris

Nice!  That’s a great tip and the gel super glue is definitely what I need.  Thanks for sharing!