Low Tide Modulator Bausatz

Item number: PPCB406

Vibrato / Chorus / Flanger.

Category: PedalPCB Modulation

Enclosure: BB drilled+ 9,90 €BB+ 7,00 €none

starting from 71,00 €

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Description

The Low Tide Modulator is a K-Field modulator for electric guitar that creates chorus and vibrato-like sounds with random delay modulations to create harmonic-experimental soundscapes.

This kit contains the PCB and all necessary parts. The enclosure can be selected, please select 6 knobs, up to 25mm diameter, for 6.3mm shaft seperately.
Here is the bill of material: bill of material

This project is by PedalPCBs, in cooperation with Musikding. If you have any problems with the contents of the kit, please contact Das Musikding (Klaus).

Here is the direct link to the manua:
Instructions

Instrument:	Guitar
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Challenging, but feasible. Great sound!

So this was my second build ever, after a fairly simple fuzz pedal. The pedal turnt out great, still messing around with the internal trim for my preferred settings, but everything works as is it should and i really like it.
To keep it in perspective: i have some knowledge about electronic components, but i don’t quiet understand schematics and how everything works together. However building these pedals is a bit like legos. You carefully place the right component on the right spot and don’t mess up the soldering joints. Then you’ll be fine.
That said, the components on the pcb are very close to each other.
I sometimes used google to verify that i have the right component for a certain spot on the pcb. Especially the jfets confused me at first.
The trickiest part was the smd, this thing is so tiny, even its packaging is tiny. I don’t have anything to zoom in, only had 0.8 tin and a fairly big tip on my soldering iron - i reallly thought i messed it up. But it works!
It took me like two long afternoons to build the pedal and a bit of playing to adjust the trims.
All in all, challenging but also feasible. And the pedal itself is just great!
Yann R., 06.06.2022

Singular and surprising chorus circuit

Nothing to report about the building process, except that its obviously a medium/big board with more parts than the usual diy chorus. It fits a BB enclosure, so its still very reasonable.

I took my time to measure every components before soldering them on the board.

Calibration is a bit more tricky, but nothing too hard : BBD biasing is very easy to dial (the loudest cleanest spot in the trimmers rotation) Gate took a bit more time (set where the Gate control potentiometer has the widest range, with no signal when the pot is fully CCW).

The most interesting thing is the enveloppe filter interactions with the chorus. Thats what makes this circuit sound singular in my opinion.

The chorus voice alone is nice, but nothing special really, compared to a CE-2. It get more interesting when the Gate control is set so that the high-pass filter interacts with the modulation.

All controls are interacting and you can have much more than a typical chorus, with some warm wobbling sensitive to the guitar playing dynamic.

This thing comes truely alive once you use the Gate Knob to add some touch-sensitive enveloppe high-pass filtering into the mix.

I needed an hour or so to set the Gate trimmer. Two hours to build the whole thing, and 3 hours to paint the enclosure.

Good for experimental sounds, or for traditional chorusing with an extra bit of randomness and warmth.

It can do something very close to what the usual chorus does, some clean and predictable modulations, but its not its strong suit, in my opinion.

Great kit, all my thanks to musikding and PedalPcb !
justin a., 29.08.2023