D’lay Tap Tempo – seperate enclouser

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone

I really love my D’lay build that Ive been using for several years already with the WF Mod as well.
Ive been thinking lately that I want to have the possibility to attache a tap tempo unit to it. nonetheless – Im aiming keeping the delay and tap tempo enclosures separately. Apparently what im looking at is the possibility to connect it with a switching jack (I assume ?).
by reaching the build instructions of the tap tempo – im also a bit confused what would be then with the ‘time’ poti of the delay build though ?

I wish to prevent rehousing the delay gut to a bigger enclosure that can contain the tap circuit all in one house. I use the delay in several bands and projects and the need for tap tempo is not always necessarily .

Id be happy for any tips or ideas how I can achieve that.

 

all the best!

[brd]

If you build the tap tempo board with a voltage regulator, so you don’t have to tap VB from the delay board, ( see build notes ) I think it can work with just a patch cable.

You could de-solder the leg of R9 that connects to R22 and lift it from the delay board. ( sorry I don’t have a board to verify which leg that is ) Then connect  a wire from that leg of R9 to the tip lug of your new switching jack. This will be your send to the tap tempo.

Then connect a wire from the ring lug of your switching jack to the pad on the delay board where you lifted R9. You will then have a switch that will separate R22 and the Time pot on the delay board from the circuit when you plug in your patch cable and connect them when the patch cable is out.

On the tap tempo side, just connect the tip lug of your input jack to the board.

If you use an external power supply that is daisy chained to both boards, I don’t think there will be any ground issues. I am unsure what would happen without a common ground.

I hope I explained that well enough.

[Playsforfun]

Hi Assaf Bomgard. If you look at what is unique to the D’Lay board when the Tap Tempo is in the circuit, it is that the Time pot and R22 are omitted and PT6 is wired in. Therefore, your pigtail between enclosures has to include the PT6 wiring and be put on a switch. A switching jack would be ideal. You also need to create switching for the removal and re-insertion of R22 and the Time pot. That can get pretty creative or stay simple if you add the switch(s) to the original enclosure. This assumes that the new enclosure is self powered and that your pigtail is shielded against noise. Have a great project. It sounds like challenging fun. Let us know how it works</span>

[Anonymous]

thanks for your input guys

everything sounds pretty much doable, but I can not think about implementing the changes without a diagram – any chances you draw a wiring diagram of what you mean ? I can for sure implement it then! this would be tremendous help – thanks!

Im pretty sure this would come in handy for anyone wanting to put the 2 units in separate enclosures. It is often the case that not always a tap unit is needed and therefor only the delay is used. I use a Boss DD7 as well for mixing and live (for guitar or send / return effect from mixing desk. And the tap tempo is just a momentary switch I build myself and it’s very handy to either have it connected or not.

In addition – can someone tell where should be a SPDT switch installed in order to have a dry killswitch within the Delay circuit ? I’d be happy to use it as well in a mixing situation and this would as well come handy

looking forward to build the Tap unit for Guitar PCB D’lay!

 

thanks!

[Anonymous]

You can install a SPDT switch by lifting either leg of R14 and inserting the switch between the lifted leg and the pad it just came from.  That will KILL the delayed signal and leave the dry signal intact.

[Anonymous]

but.. for what you are describing I can also just bypass the whole effect..
what I want is to KILL the DRY signal.
The idea of having 100 % wet signal is for using the pedal in FX send / return chain with a mixing desk.
In that case the DRY signal is already the channel itself and using the AUX send to send signal to the effect which will bring back WET signal only on a seperate channel

 

thanks!

[Anonymous]

To kill the dry signal, lift one leg of R12 and install a SPST switch.  That will kill the dry signal and leave the wet signal.

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