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Minds were blown when the first digital delays appeared in the late 1970s. Unlike earlier delays that relied on magnetic tape, electrostatic fluid, or bucket-brigade chips, these newfangled devices exhibited no distortion, frequency loss, or wobbly inconsistency. Listeners had never heard such crisp and accurate delays.
But ironically, by the time digital delay migrated from expensive rackmount devices to stompboxes any schmo could afford, musicians began to miss