Hartman Analog Flanger
A couple of beauty shots. I've been looking for one of these for years. Both Andy Summers and David Gilmour toured using the early model of these with the Reticon chip, so rabid fans have probably gobbled up most of them.
The thing about the Reticon SAD1024 chips is the clock rate. The MN3007 chip used in the CE-2 has a "maximum" clock rate of half what the Reticon has. So the Reticon has a delay half as long in its native state because it's dumping out those buckets twice as fast. So it does that very short, subtle flange thing perfectly and with amazing fidelity.
Now, I've built several Electric Mistress clones using the MN3007 and what those boards do is buffer the clock input so you can double the clock rate. Except the MN3007 doesn't like that very much and they're very hard to bias properly. You can feed them more power to make up for it, but then they heat up. Because the MN3007 can theoretically handle as much as 15 volts (12 is as high as I'd go), but that's assuming you aren't overclocking it like crazy. And doubling the clock speed isn't a mild case of overclocking.
So I've wanted one of these white elephants for ages. Very happy to finally have one. Because it sounds just like a vintage Electric Mistress, but there's no volume drop or clock noise.
Hartman Analog Flanger
A couple of beauty shots. I've been looking for one of these for years. Both Andy Summers and David Gilmour toured using the early model of these with the Reticon chip, so rabid fans have probably gobbled up most of them.
The thing about the Reticon SAD1024 chips is the clock rate. The MN3007 chip used in the CE-2 has a "maximum" clock rate of half what the Reticon has. So the Reticon has a delay half as long in its native state because it's dumping out those buckets twice as fast. So it does that very short, subtle flange thing perfectly and with amazing fidelity.
Now, I've built several Electric Mistress clones using the MN3007 and what those boards do is buffer the clock input so you can double the clock rate. Except the MN3007 doesn't like that very much and they're very hard to bias properly. You can feed them more power to make up for it, but then they heat up. Because the MN3007 can theoretically handle as much as 15 volts (12 is as high as I'd go), but that's assuming you aren't overclocking it like crazy. And doubling the clock speed isn't a mild case of overclocking.
So I've wanted one of these white elephants for ages. Very happy to finally have one. Because it sounds just like a vintage Electric Mistress, but there's no volume drop or clock noise.