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I have been busy building and here I present the Everland Delay and Chorus, featuring the D’Lay, w/ tap tempo and runaway mod, as well as the Mini-Me Chorus modded with a Roto-Tone and a Buff’nBlend. Enjoy!
Just wow! Thanks for sharing.
That is a great example of a combo build. Extremely useful.
Combos are a wonderful way to make it all yours.
I would love to hear more as you have time to give it a go.
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!!
great build, man. this is utilitarian goodness! please forgive me if i copy-cat. how are you keeping the tap tempo board in place, particularly the two rate leds?
–rob p
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
Beautiful work Chris. I love these two circuits together as well. Interesting chorus mod. BTW a gel type super glue works great. I populate the led in the board but I bend over a leg so it won’t fall out temporarily. Once I’m done messing with the board(s) and any wiring around them, I set the led with ca glue and solder it, almost last. I have fewer probs this way. Cheers
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