Product Overview
WE ARE EXTREMELY EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THE 'NEW FOR 2025' COLLABORATION WITH MADBEAN PEDALS! Fantastic DIY pedal projects, now available as full or partial Small Bear kits!
Our Partial Kits include the PCB/PCB Set and all parts needed for the project, except you supply your own enclosure and knobs.
Our Full Kit includes the PCB/PCB Set, all the parts, a drilled enclosure and knobs.
You can always check out the MadBean Forum for more info-- a great resource! MadBean Pedals Forum
Overview
If you’ve built frequencycentral’s Little Angel chorus then the Ballast JR will seem very familiar. The basic idea is to utilize our very cheap friend, the PT2399, as a substitute for the more traditional BBD-based analog chorus effects. The Little Angel is designed so that the PT2399 is set for the shortest delay it can produce (using a little timer sub-circuit to prevent the PT2399 from locking up), then its internal reference voltage is modulated with an LFO. This serves as the substitution for how a BBD clock is modulated in traditional chorus. It keeps the parts count low and eliminates any need for calibration. Pretty neat!
The Ballast JR takes the basic idea behind the Little Angel, but substitutes the analog dry-through of a PT2399 style delay. It also adds a MIX control to blend between chorus and vibrato, which is something not available in the Little Angel.
Overall, this is a very pleasant modulator. Perhaps not quite as lush or mojo-ed up as a traditional chorus, but it is easy and cheap to build.
Controls
- RATE, DEPTH: The modulation controls.
- LEVEL: Total effect output.
- MIX: 0 - dry signal only, 50% - chorus (equal wet and dry), 100% - vibrato (wet only).
