[sdiy] Relative merits of various BBD's

[Tom Arnold]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 01:05:08AM -0500, anthony wrote:
> >when you want extremely short delay times.
> 
> Or I could use an MN3006 which is only a 128-stage unit.

I tend to not use rare parts for DIY.  That leaves me with the shortest
available being the reissued 512stage unit, and as much fun as BBDs are, I
wouldnt run a Matsushita BBD within 25% of its max rated clock unless I was
after a distortion effect...

For some of the audio illusion stuff I'm playing with I'm using some ancient
( but amusingly enough, still available) signal delay lines from Raytheon
sonar sets.  500microsecond delay and extremely clean, just 1v peak to peak...
( okay, its more like 400 and some change but its close enough ).

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