[BC] The Big Hurt in Stereo

[Mark Humphrey]

On 12/1/06, cjquinn1949 at adelphia.net <cjquinn1949 at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> IIRC it was also in the 70's that Orban came out with a stereo synthesizer. I don't
> remember the model number or how it worked, but I do remember seeing one
> on display at an NAB convention. Perhaps Bob Orban can chime in with a little
> background info on the unit.

I "homebrewed" an Orban stereo synth for my college station, and
recall it was a simple phase delay line that would add to the left
output and subtract from the right output to produce a "comb filter"
effect, one channel having complementary response with respect to the
other.

A few years later, I worked for a station that had processed some mono
recordings through the commercial version of this device.  After we
installed an early Howe PhaseChaser in the airchain, we quickly
learned all of the "synthesized" songs would drive it crazy, so we had
to 'phase' those out of rotation. (sorry!)

Mark