[sdiy] digital delay, was ...

[Oren Leavitt]

I've built that Radio Shack "reverb" project about 20 years ago.
I have wrapped it in a NE572, gave the low pass filter a sharper cutoff 
and it did sound pretty decent.
In fact, I still have an SAD-1024 in it's unopened Radio Shack packaging 
w/datasheet that I was going to build another unit with...
Well, I'm glad I waited - This list is giving me all sorts of ideas ( -:

Oren


phillip m gallo wrote:

>Harry,
>
>Perhaps your being to severe here, the MXR and El. Mistress Flangers did
>great things for bring the price and proliferation of noise gates into
>general population.
>
>It was also a common hack to wrap a NE572 around either the Phlanger and the
>RS "Reverb" to bring the noise issue into the realm of the useable.
>
>Using the MXR with an old ELKA electric "piano"(?) i recorded at 1/2 speed
>(playing real slowly and an 8ve lower). Driving the noise up an 8ve sounded
>pretty cool allowed some shelving eq to render the beast fairly quiet.
>
>regards,
>p
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of harrybissell
>Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 8:06 PM
>To: eq927 at freenet.carleton.ca
>Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] digital delay, was ...
>
>
>Ahh... alas
>
>I remember going into my favorite music store (yes... it WAS in the
>70's... iirc) and listening to the MXR flanger and thinking that no way
>was I going to pay the $700 they wanted for it... for some anemic
>flange effect ??? (I consider the end of Jimi Hendrix "Axis- Bold as Love
>to be the definitive flange effect....) And that time I tried the utterly
>awful E-H "Electric
>Mistress" and said to myself.... "Self... who in their right mind would
>pay ANY amount of money for this hissy noisy piece of sh!t ???" I don't
>care WHAT 'big name' artistes supposedly use this thing.
>
>Otoh I built a Rat Shack "Reverb" with the SAD1024 ....  it was a hissy
>piece of sh!t as well... but cheap so who cares.... and the PAiA "Phlanger"
>which was er... hissy, noisy and distorted to boot... but I sold it for
>nearly
>as much as it cost so I call it a wash....
>
>I also remember being sorry I purchased a Tascam 4 channel reel to reel at
>the advice of a friend, when I could have had a Delta Lab 1/2 second delay
>for the same price. It was er... not hissy, noisy, distorted, or a piece of
>sh!t and
>would have seen way more hours than the Tascam.  I did get revenge on that
>'friend'... I sold HIM the Tascam (at a loss) he bought the DBX noise
>reduction
>units (2) and sold the whole thing at an even greater loss... I bet it never
>saw 20 hours
>of use the whole time we had it...
>
>Oh well, live and learn....  :^P
>
>H^) harry  (bbd rant... I guess he's BACK :^)
>
>eq927 at freenet.carleton.ca wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Aw, c'mon Harry - I've repaired around 80 to 100 BBD-based commercial fx
>>units  over the past 10 years and in only ONE was the BBD fried...the
>>rest of the parts were fried as well. Bad solder joints,
>>broken-off connectors the usual culprits - and the occasional bad op
>>amp. I've even seen BBD's quite happily survive reverse voltage. Now be
>>nice to these little "bundles of diy-fun"... when BBD's were
>>introduced in the early 70's, people were enjoying listening to
>>those hissy cassette decks...and who knows... some of your favorite
>>records might even have guitar processed through these little gems. To
>>be fair, there are alternatives available nowadays to BBD's and hissy
>>tapes.... but some still like doing it the old way.
>>Regards, Mike
>>
>>    
>>
>>>well ihmo... most of them do not need execution, they commit suicide
>>>(seppuku, hari-kiri...etc) rather easily all by themselves....   ;^P
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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Oren Leavitt
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