[sdiy] digital delay, was Re: What is a quadrature oscillator good for?

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:49:09PM -0400, john mahoney wrote:
> > There's nothing to stop you from designing a BBD delay just for
> > low-bandwidth uses, like LFO and envelopes. In fact, DC coupling
> > would be no problem with a BBD circuit. 
> 
> I had the impression that BBDs were hard to find. You know, it's
> another "dead" techonology, like those vacuum tube things. ;-)

BBD's are being made by Shanghai Belling in China.
2048 stage, occasionally 4096 stage, and the mother of all distortion units,
a 8096 stage BBD that they dont seem to have made yet...

Of course Tubes are still being made also...

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