A day of firsts for me ... first digital pedal I've built and first PCB I've designed and etched rather than using vero!
Turned out quite nicely, think I'll use this method more in the future.
As for the circuit, it's a digital reverb chip with controls for Decay plus hi-cut and lo-cut to shape the reverb tone. There's a mode switch to change between a long-cavernous ambient reverb or a decent all-purpose medium reverb.
The circuit passes through an analogue mixer so you can dial in just as much reverb as you like. There's also a switch to cut the dry signal - perfect for using the pedal in an amplifier effects loop.
When I've got more time I'll start wrestling with the programming language a little more, shimmer and modulated reverbs should be possible at some stage. Exciting stuff!
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Fair play, even more so for a first go on a PCB - looks great! I've always been a vero-warrior
What's the language like? Is it assembler (in which case you have my sympathy) or something a bit more high-level?
The nuts and bolts of assembler are quite attractive at the beginning, there's no high-level obfuscation, you know EXACTLY what's going on the whole time (in theory!). After a while though I realised that the C#.NET I get paid to bang out professionally was far more lucrative than my tinkering was ever going to be. And I missed my lovely fluffy Visual Studio debugger.
This is some interesting stuff you're doing here, I'll be following what you're up to for sure - good luck!
Although I got it from Maplin. It's sold under a few brand names though. Used it day in day out for about 2 years now without issue.