[sdiy] Flanger???

[Gene Stopp]

I'll let you know in a week or two, after I get some tape-to-tape
experiments going! I'm still thinking that the depth of the effect relies on
the matching of the characteristics of the audio paths in every respect
including saturation. I could be wrong, but this is part of the fun!

Best Regards,

- Gene


-----Original Message-----
From: eq927 at freenet.carleton.ca [mailto:eq927 at freenet.carleton.ca]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 6:43 PM
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Cc: gene at ixiacom.com
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Flanger???


Gene and List,
How about this:
Maybe part of what makes real reel-reel flanging sound so good is tape 
saturation... which is a good-sounding kind of distortion, and both tape 
units will be distorting in similar fashion... unlike the nasty-sounding 
distortion that BBD's or digital delay units produce when 
overdriven. If the levels are well-matched then deep notches 
should be produced even when distorting...this is just a suggestion, I 
have absolutely no experimental evidence to back this up.... Any 
comments?
Mike