Which eventide Harmonizer
Ian Thompson-Bell put forth the notion
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Dec [Cluskey] wrote:
On Mar 26, 3:43 am, Romeo Rondeau wrote:
The first Eventide Harmonizer came out in the mid 70's. It wasn't
until
the H3000 that it was totally abused, a crime that I'm guilty of as
well. :-)
Romeo
That comes as a shock!
I am sure I can remember using the unit as the Industry Standard for
ADT [Automatic Double Tracking] in the mid Sixties and then through
the seventies, Eighties. Perhaps Decca Studios in the UK [West
Hampstead, London] had a pre launch version ..... or it was on test?
According to the eventide web site their first harmonizer came out in
the mid 70s. Prior to that they made the Instant Phazor and Instant
Flanger. They did not start as a business until 1970 so I doubt you
would have heard them in the 60s.
Cheers
Ian
Right - IIRC, Richard Factor started that company and they had one of the
first digital delay lines. It was stepped and had very short delay
times. The Instant Phaser and Flanger were analog products, using all
pass filters and BBD devices, respectively. As the technology improved,
the Harmonizers(tm) started appearing. Even my 949 is a primitive bit-
slice design, using LM1496 sideband modulator chips.
david
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