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DWELLMIXRELSENS

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Scientific Guitarist

Disappearing ActAll-Analog Ducking Spring Reverb

Category
Reverb
Controls
Dwell · Mix · Rel · Sens
Price
see vendor

From the vendor

Who doesn't love the glorious wash of a spring reverb after hitting a big chord? The only issue with it is that the wash can also turn the attack of new notes to mush, making it hard to get any real definition of the notes being played. That can be desirable at times, but other times you want that big wash of reverb on the tails of the notes but a more present, dry attack. The Disappearing Act allows for precisely this. It's an all-analog spring reverb driver circuit with an envelope follower and optical compression of the reverb signal so that you can dial in just the right amount of detail for new notes while allowing the wash of a heavy reverb to fill the space between notes.

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Ducking of effects using a sidechain input is a common studio technique that allows key signals to be more forward in the mix. It gets used on vocals, snares, kick drums, and more all the time. However, this

Schematic

The schematic is in the vendor's build document, page 1. Open the build document. No KiCad fragment has been drawn for this circuit yet.

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RefValueNormalizedTypeNotes
Resistors 20
R11M1M
R210k10k
R310k10k
R547k47k
R647k47k
R7100k100k
R8470R470
R91k81.8k
R101k51.5k
R11100k100k
R12120R120
R1310k10k
R1410k10k
R151k1k
R1610k10k
R17100k100k
R18100k100k
R194k74.7k
R2022k22k
R21100k100k
Capacitors 18
C11u1u
C2100n100n
C3100p100p
C4100p100p
C5100u100u
C622n22n
C710n10n
C810u10u
C91u1u
C104n74.7n
C112n22.2n
C121n1n
C132u22.2u
C1447u47u
C15100p100p
C161u1u
C1710u10u
C1810u10u
Diodes 5
D11N58171N5817
D31N41481N4148
D41N41481N4148
D51N41481N4148
D61N41481N4148
ICs 3
IC1TL072PTL072P
IC2TL074PTL074P
U1TC1044SCPATC1044SCPA
Opto 1
LDR1KE10720KE10720
Potentiometers 4
DWELLC10kC10k
MIXB100kB100k
RELB100kB100k
SENSB5kB5k
Switches 2
DIFF4n74N7
SWLSP10LSP10
LEDs 3
D2LEDLED
LEDLSP10LSP10
R4RLEDRLED
Other 10
+9VLSP10LSP10
GNDLSP10LSP10
GND_INLSP10LSP10
GND_OUTLSP10LSP10
INLSP10LSP10
OUTLSP10LSP10
RETLSP10LSP10
RET_GLSP10LSP10
SENDLSP10LSP10
SEND_GLSP10LSP10