[sdiy] digital delay, was ...

[harrybissell]

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
> >