History of the Eventide Omnipressor - Gear Club Podcast

In 2018 Richard Factor and Tony Agnello were awarded a Technical Grammy! https://www.eventideaudio.com/news/pr...

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The Eventide Omnipressor was a very unique hardware compressor. It allowed for gating, compression, limiting, expansion, and reverse compression. This is one of the first known pieces of hardware to employ side-chaining.

Richard Factor, founder of Eventide, is a living legend. Listen to him here with fellow legends, John Agnello & Stewart Lerman. Its a little known fact that the Omnipressor was partly born in some way from the Richard Nixon Watergate tape.

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL GRAMMY AWARD HONOREE:
Tony Agnello and Richard Factor, through their company Eventide, have influenced the way we make records for nearly 50 years, inventing and producing a wide variety of original audio effects devices, creating the first rack-mounted special effect processors for studio use, and making sophisticated studio processors available to musicians. Founded in 1971 in the basement of Sound Exchange studio on West 54th St. in New York City, Eventide invented the first tape machine autolocator for the Ampex MM1000 multitrack recorder, allowing the operator to precisely and automatically rewind the tape to a specific location at the press of a button—a feature soon standard equipment on every professional machine. Since then, they've created myriad products that have forever changed the recording industry, including the landmark H910 Harmonizer® effects processor, whose underlying technology forms the basis of all pitch-shifting and pitch-correction devices today. It allowed the use of delay and pitch effects separately and in combination, impacting the sound of records such as David Bowie’s Low, Kraftwerk’s Computer World, AC/DC’s Back In Black, and Parliament-Funkadelic’s “Aqua Boogie."

Song during the intro & outro by: Bill Horowitz, New Haven musician. Recorded on Dillon Rd. Woodbridge Ct., 1975
Engineer: Kevin Garrity
Song written and performed by Bill Horowitz
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