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Legendary Tape Flanging Simulator. In Used, Excellent condition
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The Instant Flanger, released in 1975, was designed to simulate true tape flanging. Flanging first became popular in the 1960s when recording engineers discovered that they could mix the output of two tape machines, one running slightly slower than the other, and get a cool new effect. As its time-delay circuit produced many more “nulls” and offered a much deeper flanging effect than anything previously available, the Instant Flanger became widely used on many legendary recordings. If you’ve ever listened to Led Zeppelin’s “Physical Graffiti” album, you’ve heard its legendary sound.
Electronic Flanging: The Bucket Brigade Chip
Eventide’s first effects box from 1971, the Instant Phaser, was designed to simulate tape flanging but used a series of ‘all-pass’ filters rather than delay (this was before audio delay was practical). Flanging requires a relatively short delay, and that delay must be smoothly varied from ~0 to ~10msec to achieve the effect. Digital delays had recently been introduced, but they were prohibitively expensive for such a short delay. It was not until the invention of a chip called a Charge Coupled Device (CCD), commonly referred to as a Bucket Brigade, that the Instant Flanger was made possible. This chip, analog though it was, could be used to delay audio. We contacted its manufacturer, Mitsubishi, in Japan. As Jon D. Paul, the designer of the black-meter Omnipressor®, recalls:
“Analog delay lines with charge-coupled devices were a new concept in 1974 and Richard Factor realized they could be used to simulate the analog tape delay. Richard assigned me to study the IC and design a bucket brigade analog delay with variable delay time.“
Better than Tape in So Many Ways
The Instant Flanger was designed to do everything that tape flanging could and to do it as well or better. Once studios installed an Instant Flanger in their rack, setting up a tape machine to create the flanging effect was no longer necessary.
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