Eventide Releases DDL-500 Delay For 500 Series

The new DDL-500 from Eventide brings a beautifully strange new addition to the world of a traditionally analog environment. This delay is, at it’s core, digital. But as Ray Maxwell, VP of Sales and Marketing says, “The design goal was to create a digital delay with an analog soul.”

So what does that mean for us? Well the DDL-500 has much more to offer than a simple delay algorithm. The 500-series module includes a handful of analog features that affect the “soul” of the delay, providing for a different timbre. Alongside these features, the delay can also handle high sample-rate sources with ease – up to 192 kHz.

“Digital delay with an analog soul.”

According to Eventide, the DDL-500 is shipping now, although the price has not been announced and it does not appear to be in any retail outlets at the time of this posting — that information will be updated as soon as it is available.

Here are full details from Eventide:

The DDL-500 features 10 seconds of pristine 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,’ said RM. “The DDL-500s 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.

From short delays for double tracking, to ridiculously long delays for whatever reason, to creating swept delay and tape echo class effects, the DDL-500 brings it all in a single 500 series slot.

Features

• Sample Rate: 192kHz to 12kHz
• Resolution: 24 bits
• Minimum Delay: 0.11 milliseconds
• Maxiumum Delay:
• 10 seconds @ 192kHz
• 160 seconds @ 12kHz
• Input: Max 24dBu, >18k­ impedance
• Output: Max 24dBu, 50­ impedance
• Insert Send: Max 10dBu, 2k­ impedance
• Insert Return: Max 20dBu, 50k­ impedance
• Power: +16V 200mA, -16V 100mA

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