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New Eventide DDL-500 Delay For 500 Series Now Shipping

Provides 10 seconds of delay at a 192 kHz sample rate and unique design that strictly limits the amount of digital circuitry

Eventide has announced the immediate availability of its new digital delay for 500 series racks, the DDL-500.

It provides 10 seconds of delay at a 192 kHz sample rate and a unique design that strictly limits the amount of digital circuitry to the bare minimum. Soft saturation clipping, low-pass filter, feedback, insert loop, relay bypass, and +20 dB boost are all analog.

“500 series is, by and large, analog and we thought long and hard about introducing a digital product to that world. Our mantra was ‘as analog as possible’,” states Ray Maxwell, Eventide vice president of sales and marketing. “The DDL-500’s digital circuitry was kept to a minimum – just the chips necessary for delay. All of the other sound-shaping features are implemented in the analog domain. The design goal was to create a digital delay with an analog soul.”

Delay time can be varied smoothly either manually or by connecting an LFO to the remote input allowing short delays to be used for comb filter and flanging effects.

The DDL-500 is also capable of extremely long delays (up to 160 seconds at a 16 kHz sample rate) allowing long passages to be captured for looping.

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