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From: browne@savax.UUCP (Duff Browne)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: Re: Digital Reverb? (& delay)
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Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 08:57:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 08:57:13 1986
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> > Of course, a long hardware shift register should be easier to control
> > than the RAM, but I didn't realize that such a register exists (unless
> > you're referring to an analog bucket-brigade delay line). Is this really
> > what is used in the commercial digital delays?
> 
> Yes... there is a 1024-bit shift register, the SAD-1024, made specifically
> for this purpose.  I remember it was used in two of the (much-maligned)

Reticon has stopped manufacture of the SAD series of bucket brigade lines.
The latest issue of Electronic Musician Magazine has an article on this, and 
tells what the replacement parts are. (They are improved from the SAD-1024)