Cheap Chorus with Mix control

[Sam SG]

Any suggestions? I use chorus very little like 1 song with the working band and a few of my own songs.
I have a vintage 80s Ibanez Chorus but feel its too wet at times.
Rather than mod it for what little I use chorus Im thinking if there is a cheap option with a mix cobtrol on it.

 

[FuseG4]

Boss ce-5?

 

[Chistopher]

It doesn't have a blend, but that $40 clone of the DC-2 might be subtle enough for you it doesnt need it

 

[Mincer]

Honestly, it isn't easy to find any chorus pedal with a mix control.

 

[Chistopher]

Thinking more about it, maybe a flanger is the way to go

 

[Securb]

Honestly, it isn't easy to find any chorus pedal with a mix control.

I only have one with a mix control and I could sell it and do a mortgage payment. There is a clone but even that is $179

 

[beaubrummels]

I just use a used CE-3 and back the depth way off.

 

[GuitarStv]

If you have two amps, split your signal and send one half through a vibrato pedal and the other half clean . . . then use the amp volumes and vibrato depth to mix to your desired sound. I've found that this gives a lovely chorusing effect and you can make it as subtle or over the top as you want pretty easily.

 

[Sam SG]

If you have two amps, split your signal and send one half through a vibrato pedal and the other half clean . . . then use the amp volumes and vibrato depth to mix to your desired sound. I've found that this gives a lovely chorusing effect and you can make it as subtle or over the top as you want pretty easily.

Yea itd a stereo chorus and I have multple amps. BUT Bringing 2 amps is a no go. As everyone percieves 2 amps as louder and every club tgese days is so touchy.

 

[Chistopher]

If you weren't against modding your current chorus, you would only need to change out one resistor

 

[Securb]

 

[Aceman]

Demon FX Mini CHorus or Mosky Flame both do actual blend/mix, not level.

But I get why chorus pedals don't. Pretty soon, it isn't chorus.

 

[Sam SG]

If you weren't against modding your current chorus, you would only need to change out one resistor

Im down with modding it. Not sure if I can find a schematic for a Ibanez CSL tho. Not sure if I had one Id know what to change on a chorus circuit...never been inside one

 

[Chistopher]

There is a resistor connected directly to the Depth pot on the circuit board. It should be either a 220k or a 47k, or possibly something similar. Increase it to decrease the maximum and minimum depths of the pedal. I would go no higher than 330k to start, depending on what the initial value is.

I couldn't find a CSL schematic, but it's based off the CS9 (which has a few schematics) which is based off the CE-2 (has even more schematics)

I saw a few pictures of a CSL board, and it didn't have any internal trim pots you can tweak, but I did see a few CS9s that did. So maybe look for those first

 

[Sam SG]

There is a resistor connected directly to the Depth pot on the circuit board. It should be either a 220k or a 47k, or possibly something similar. Increase it to decrease the maximum and minimum depths of the pedal. I would go no higher than 330k to start, depending on what the initial value is.

I couldn't find a CSL schematic, but it's based off the CS9 (which has a few schematics) which is based off the CE-2 (has even more schematics)

I saw a few pictures of a CSL board, and it didn't have any internal trim pots you can tweak, but I did see a few CS9s that did. So maybe look for those first

Ill take a peak.
This chorus is actually very nice sounding. Its just its to prominent. Everything sounds like an 80s ballad lol.....I guess it is of the era
By connected to the depth pot....do you mean to the wiper on the depth pot?

 

[Chistopher]

Ill take a peak.
This chorus is actually very nice sounding. Its just its to prominent. Everything sounds like an 80s ballad lol.....I guess it is of the era
By connected to the depth pot....do you mean to the wiper on the depth pot?

There should be three wires that connects the depth pot to the circuit board, only one of them will be connected to a resistor on the PCB, the other two should be connected to an opamp.

 

[Sam SG]

There should be three wires that connects the depth pot to the circuit board, only one of them will be connected to a resistor on the PCB, the other two should be connected to an opamp.

Gotcha.
So basically upping the resistor will reduce the level of the effects depth in the wet/dry mix.
Pretty much a mix control would just be a pot wired as a rehostat in place of this resistor?

 

[Chistopher]

No, this just makes it so that the Depth knob can effectively go lower. A wet/dry blend wouldn't be hard to implement, but it would require a daughter board.