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There's an awful lot of hype in this article. Tunable peak/notch tone control circuits had been around since the early valve days, and the effect was well know
by Johnythree 11y ago
There's an awful lot of hype in this article.
Tunable peak/notch tone control circuits had been around since the early valve days, and the effect was well known to recording engineers and synthesiser experimenters.
When the sound became popular, there were dozens of circuits published in the electronics hobby magazines, particularly in England where it was known as a "Wow pedal".
Ref: Someone who was there.
- nutate 11y agoYeah they were fundamental to the tuning of radio at all come to think of it. Formant filter synths were available far earlier. And even earlier than that wah-wah mutes on trumpets were commonplace in the 20s which were a physical manifestation of tunable peak low pass filters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah-wah_(music) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah-wah_(music)