[sdiy] Relative merits of various BBD's

[anthony]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Arnold" <xyzzy at sysabend.org>


> 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...

I can get MN3006's fairly easilly.

Didn't know that about the clock their top clock rates. I've only recently 
been more interested in short short delays.

> 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 ).

That sounds cool. Now I have BBD's CCD's sonar things and BVD's

> - Tom Arnold       -  Free Synth DIY webspace http://www.sdiy.org