The guy who plugged his guitar into the transatlantic submarine cable:
RIP George Anderson.



A past colleague from Teleglobe Canada. George started in subsea working the TAT-1 cable at the Sydney Mines CLS. He then worked CANTAT-2 in Beaver Harbour, and finally TAT-9, CANTAT-3, and CANUS in Pennant Point. He was a car enthusiast and great musician.

George always brought his guitar along for evening and night shifts. He told me that he used to get "loop backs" put up on CANTAT-2 voice circuits in London then plug his guitar into the patch panel (in Canada). This would give him the longest analogue delay on the planet!

Obituary: https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/ob...nderson-39143/

Rumour has it the tone was awesomely scooped but the latency was horrible.

Close. The voice circuits were cropped to the range [300Hz to 3,000Hz].... more accurately "kilocylces" as the terminal kit was from STC in London and the annotations were in cycles. It was an all analogue 14MHz cable. the lower 7MHz of channels going to UK and the upper 7MHz returning.

The 600 ohm loads must have sucked the tops off the guitar unless it was buffered.

C7/G at the 5th fret ......

oops, thought you said the longest chord .....