Eventide

Eventide’s original “product” was a tape search unit for the Ampex MM1000 multitrack recorder. Eventide had its start in a small New York studio where there was no room for a “tape op.” 

From the Audio Engineering Scoiety meeting, and from a fortuitous order by Maryland Public Broadcasting, came Eventide’s initial product line, the Instant Phaser and, for Maryland, a digital delay line giving two channels of independent delay from a single input.

In the early 70’s the H949 model Harmonizer brand effects processor was added to the line. This introduced a finely controllable, very small pitch change capability, used for “doubling” vocals along with other effects.

Storage media had increased in capacity from kilobytes to megabytes to gigabytes over the preceding two decades. In the tradition of solving problems for broadcasters (poor tape frequency response and telephone cursing, for diverse examples), they realised that another problem was susceptible to banishment.

Eventide equipment is pervasive in recording and broadcast facilities, police stations across the nation, and aircraft around the world. Their industry-leading special effects equipment is audible on almost all popular recordings. Their digital voice logging recorders capture the history of civilization, frequently in minute detail.