Which Reverb Chip are you using?

[{ antonio }]

I was wondering which reverb you are using in your current projects?

I would love to hear your thoughts!

Cheers,  Antonio.

[differo]

Spin Semi FV-1. Most bang for the buck imo. Easy to build great sounding!! Recommended.

[pie-key]

ei! where did you buy your FV1 chip?

smallbear?

[peterv999]

FV-1 also!   Google Spin Semiconductors for vendor or OCT for a daughterboard with the FV-1 so there is no need to solder SMT devices.

Peter

[Ice-9]

Same here FV-1. If your in the UK prosonic sell them and the price last time i looked had fallen a lot.

[Strategy]

My reverb pedal uses a very early chip, very primitive, in fact so primitive that it is giant and heavy compared to today's chips. It's actually electro-mechanical -- this IC is actually a tank full of springs plus transducers!!!


This was a fun project, much improved by mods detailed in this forum: http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/projects/25-reverb/43-stage-center-reverb

- Strategy

Same here FV-1. If your in the UK prosonic sell them and the price last time i looked had fallen a lot.

[peterv999]

Moving back to the topic, here is a picture showing the mentioned OCT daughterboard with SMT components  on top of a dual channel pre/post amp motherboard suited for guitar.

[differo]

that looks so neat peter999! I will try their daughterboards sometimes.. shipping is a b**** thou (to Europe). I buy my FV1 chips at prosonic too, last time I checked it was around 8-9 euros.

[anchovie]

If your in the UK prosonic sell them and the price last time i looked had fallen a lot.

I buy my FV1 chips at prosonic too, last time I checked it was around 8-9 euros.

Do you guys mean Profusion?

[Ice-9]

Yeah ! Profusion not Prosonic, sorry my mistake.
My first FV-1 chip from them cost me £21 now there £7.45. they also sell a digital rotary switch for £3. I might get some fora new project.

Here is a picture of the first one i made, complete guitar stereo in/out preamp and effect.

[differo]

Profusion it is my bad too, I'm at work not at home to check it.

[peterv999]

ICE-9,
That's a great board you've made!! I believe the difference is that the one I've presented is with already soldered FV-1 board that could be soldered bij most people. Wonder if you did solder this yourself?

Difero,
Thanks for your compliments! I'm also in Europe and order them directly by OCT. They accept paypal and are very easy to communicate with. The unit comes in a couple of flavors and, for normal use, don't require reprogramming. I'm programming them with vintage echo gear emulations so it would fit "the Shadows".


-Peter

[Ice-9]

Yes Peter the pcb was routed and etched by myself and all the components were hand soldered including the FV-1 chip. I know a lot of people are a bit put off with soldering SMD components but to be honest once you get the hang of it it's easied and qucer than doing Through hole components. There is a thread on these boards of the FV-1 project that relates to the picture i posted, with full pcb layout and schematics and other ideas to add to the effect.

I like your boards as well and recognise that the FV-1 module board is Franks from OCT who i also beleive was one of the design engineers for the actual FV-1 chip itself.
These are great chip.

[peterv999]

Yes Peter the pcb was routed and etched by myself and all the components were hand soldered including the FV-1 chip. I know a lot of people are a bit put off with soldering SMD components but to be honest once you get the hang of it it's easied and qucer than doing Through hole components. There is a thread on these boards of the FV-1 project that relates to the picture i posted, with full pcb layout and schematics and other ideas to add to the effect.

I like your boards as well and recognise that the FV-1 module board is Franks from OCT who i also beleive was one of the design engineers for the actual FV-1 chip itself.
These are great chip.

ICE-9,
Correct! I've decided to offer as a "labour of love" a design that could be build by the 'average' technical DIY person. This project is on my website echotapper.nl in more detail. At the present, 3 units are build and a final pilot build is pending. When this is with success its (parts and instructions) available. I'm presently developing the  emulations.  Peter

[tiges_ tendres]

Yes Peter the pcb was routed and etched by myself and all the components were hand soldered including the FV-1 chip. I know a lot of people are a bit put off with soldering SMD components but to be honest once you get the hang of it it's easied and qucer than doing Through hole components. There is a thread on these boards of the FV-1 project that relates to the picture i posted, with full pcb layout and schematics and other ideas to add to the effect.

I like your boards as well and recognise that the FV-1 module board is Franks from OCT who i also beleive was one of the design engineers for the actual FV-1 chip itself.
These are great chip.

ICE-9,
Correct! I've decided to offer as a "labour of love" a design that could be build by the 'average' technical DIY person. This project is on my website echotapper.nl in more detail. At the present, 3 units are build and a final pilot build is pending. When this is with success its (parts and instructions) available. I'm presently developing the  emulations.  Peter

I've been looking at that project for a couple of days now.  It looks great!  I was designing a board myself to go with the Oct modules, but it looks like you saved me a job.

Please let us know when you have kits available.

[Ice-9]

PETER

I thought i recognised the pcb from previous surfing on other pages, I have just had a look back at your website and the development of this project looks great. I have bookmarked the page to keep a check on whats going on. My own development is to incorperate this in  an amp i am designing at the moment. Which i will hope to bring to the forum as a sort of modular amp.
Good luck with the project.