Eventide, Inc.

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So we had a name. An improbable name by the standards of the day, it being 1970. Now we needed a business. The stuff we had been making wasn't particularly inspiring. Our 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." Co-founder Steve Katz requested co-founder Richard Factor to build a gadget that Katz could use to return the tape to a specific location. Co-founder Orville Greene, owner of the studio, financed the initial unit. The unit was an immediate success, allowing Katz to engineer records solo. In a spasm of zeal he presented the unit to the Ampex representative, who notified the factory, which said "we need some of them!" Hence we survived for a while OEMing tape search units and a handful of other low (very low) volume products such as a two-second delay line for telephone research and an electrostatic deflector for dispensing nanoliter quantities of chemical reagents. In this first year we also presented at the Audio Engineering Society meeting in NYC a fanciful aggregation of "products" that we were unable to demonstrate due to the complete lack of any internal electronic components, but that we felt nonetheless might attract some custom were they realized in commercial form. ...

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