Nod to The Legend · The producers · 1977
Tony Visconti and the Eventide H910
Producer, and the first Harmonizer
Eventide's H910 Harmonizer could pitch audio in real time. On David Bowie's Low, Visconti ran the snare through it with feedback, and he famously described the box as messing with the fabric of time.
Still heard: Pitch-shifted snares and micro-pitch doubling (which our TantiChant leans on) start here.
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