<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Oct 2024, at 14:45, Todd Sines via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The A/DA Harmony Synthesizer pedal used Reticon SAD1024 BBDs to accomplish some pretty dark pitch shifting, at least 2 were used that I can see from this listing.. that BBD artifacting shimmer is amazing.</div><div class=""><a href="https://reverb.com/item/4813895-a-da-harmony-synthesizer-1979-perfect-working-order-rare" class="">https://reverb.com/item/4813895-a-da-harmony-synthesizer-1979-perfect-working-order-rare</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_0ZfIule5Y" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_0ZfIule5Y</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXnMgCSSRqQ" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXnMgCSSRqQ</a><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">This is exactly the "large and expensive" thing we were theorising earlier in the thread! There's a fantastic Craig Anderton quote from this Premier Guitar article looking at this pedal:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/gear/inside-the-a-da-harmony-synthesizer" class="">https://www.premierguitar.com/gear/inside-the-a-da-harmony-synthesizer</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anderton said "“It’s amazing that this box even exists at all", which pretty much sums it up. Analogue pitchshifting is a bit like dogs riding bicycles. It's not that they do it particularly well or very elegantly, it's simply amazing that they do it at all!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>