Tubed Electrostatic Sustain is my first to be created using a wonderful 1966 Fender Echo-Reverb tube electrostatic “oil can” delay which I recently fixed up. This bizarre old technology creates a delay by writing an audio signal in the form of a continuously varying electrostatic charge onto a rotating metal disk (like a photocopier) which sits in a bath of dielectric oil – hence the name “oil can delay”. The technology was developed by Tel-Ray and is just about as analog as it ever gets with its overdriven tube preamp and wonky belt driven disk.
The instrument was created by overdriving the tube stages with several cycling PWM waves from a CS01 synth.
Credits
– D.A.Wilson Equipment Restoration, Sound & Patch Design
– Stephen Howell GUI Design & Graphics
– Mario Krušelj TBZ Engine Script
HS-4KL-BZ15 (09/06/13)
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