Eventide Flashback #9.2 - Dump & Go - The Profanity Delay

[Orville71]

This Flashback is about the Eventide product which became almost indispensable to talk radio and other stations whose personnel were benignly permitted access to microphones without considering the utterances of their late-night denizens.

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A Feast of Memory

Eventide, as chronicled in our various flashbacks, feasted on memory. From the 1745 (shift registers) to the 1745A (good and slightly larger shift registers) to the 1745M and H910 (memory chips) to the H949 (bigger and better memory chips), each product generation used more and more memory. By 1977, we concluded that memory was—just barely—inexpensive enough to supplant the space, cost, and inconvenience of the dedicated tape recorders that protected the delicate ears and the even more delicate FCC license coveted by our candidate customers. But what about the BLEEP? Should we add a button to add this irritating, wasteful excrescence to the flow of programming? (Hint: I wouldn’t have written “irritating and wasteful” if there weren’t a better way.)

Yum! 16k chips, 10-wide by two chips high, this BD955 board boasted two rows of 1977 state-of-the-art memory chips, already twice as many as were in the 1745M delay line or the H949 Harmonizer®.

Read the full blog and see the historic pictures here!
https://www.eventideaudio.com/flashback ... ity-delay/