Thursday, 10 March 2022

Dead Astronaut Skyscape Chorus

 Based on EHX Small Clone but with lots of mods and useful addons.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.

*Update 231112* 

Layout is corrected since Erubi spotted some errors 





14 comments:

  1. Mark it! It works great with one edit: The 56k resistor in the top left needs to be moved from D4 to C4 to connect to +9v. Looking forward to boxing this one up!

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  2. Anyone know where to get a MN3007

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    1. I think Smallbear still stocks them.

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    2. Cheers Tom, they do indeed. $16 for the chip and $28 shipping, I think I will make a CE-2 instead - Lol

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    3. Jesus, that's insane. I just received chips from Banzai myself for a Ce-2. I hadn't seen that they had them and tried Ebay. Fakes, luckily I was refunded.

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    4. You can also try a coolaudio v3207 - under 10v the performance differences are supposedly negligible. 3207 are readily available and much cheaper. You do have to swap the 9v and ground connections as well as the pin 4+5 resistors, but it's doable.

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    6. I'm in the states so I get it through https://stompboxparts.com/semiconductors/v3207d-bbd-ic/
      $4 a piece and they're genuine. They're one of the few BBD chips in new production so they're readily available with much lower chance of counterfeits. Here's a 3207 - 3007 perf conversion too http://effectslayouts.blogspot.com/2018/09/mxr-micro-chorus.html?m=1

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    7. Yeah, I'm in the US as well. Thanks OT.

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    8. Built this with a 3207, I reversed pins 1 and 5, should I do something else? I have sound, the mix and volume controls work and the rate led works too but I have no modulation.

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    9. I still haven't solved my problem but R24 should be 10k (6.8k at column 3)

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  3. hi! having issues with this build, at firts it didnt work, like it doesnt do the effect it suposed to. Then I revised the schematic and found some errors.
    the capacitors in columns 30 and 25 are reversed (mine burnt), mix 3 should be mix 2, and the 10k resistor should be in this path, and therefore mix 2 should be mix 3 without the 10k (easy fix, ommited bypass led and used that space to change the components). The thing is after those changes, I dont know if the mn3007 or the cd4047 burnt, cause still doenst work. the rest of the schematic is spot on

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    1. Yikes, that's not good. Make sure your power supply didn't short. Also, your power protection diode is now probably fried so that'll kill power to the whole circuit.

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  4. Thanks Anders! This pedal sounds awesome. I compared to the EHX small clone, and, while this one has more controls, the schematics are nearly identical. Rate 1 should be rate 3, but other than that, all controls work well and have a very usable sweep.

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