From: ert
Registered: September 15, 2001 Posts: 124
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Any idea how Sim and Garf. got that "huge "lovely REAL sounding reverb on tracks like "America/Bridge Over",etc.I have got a PCM80 Lex.What are the modern equivalents.ROOMs/plates etc... Cheers ROB
From: London, England
Registered: April 18, 2003 Posts: 295
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It was almost certainly an echo plate, (with maybe some pre delay created using tape echo) there were obviously no digital reverbs around at that time.
From: Birmingham
Registered: July 10, 2002 Posts: 1022
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Sorry this is a little off topic, but I heard a wonderful story once (don't know how true it is) that the huge snare reverb on S&G's "The Boxer" was generated by forcing the doors of a lift shaft in the record company building and placing the snare + mic in the open doorway. OK it may be bulls**t but if it's true then I guess it's 11 out of 10 for creative genius.
From: London, England
Registered: April 18, 2003 Posts: 295
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I'm sure lots of stuff was done using natural echo - Rockfield Studios in Wales has a natural echo chamber - a reflective room with a monitor and a mic in it, and I once made a recording in a country studio where we put my cranked up marshall outside and ran some mics in some trees about 100 yards away! Sadly it didn't sound that great (probably due to lack of reflective surfaces).
From: London, England
Registered: April 18, 2003 Posts: 295
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Best natural reverb I've ever heard is on the island of Kefalonia (where Captain wotsits mandolin was filmed). At a place called Assos (something like that) there is a big hill with an old prison camp at the top. It has a huge dissused underground reservoir, you can lift some covers and shout into it - what a fantastic natural reveb sound!! now if only you could transfer that to your studio!
From: Glasgow, Scotland
Registered: November 14, 2001 Posts: 618
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quote:Originally posted by Hank: Sorry this is a little off topic, but I heard a wonderful story once (don't know how true it is) that the huge snare reverb on S&G's "The Boxer" was generated by forcing the doors of a lift shaft in the record company building and placing the snare + mic in the open doorway. OK it may be bulls**t but if it's true then I guess it's 11 out of 10 for creative genius.
I've heard that very same story. I believed it too!
From: Beverley, E.Yorks
Registered: July 04, 2001 Posts: 2451
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It's better than that - the drummer was actually at the bottom of a lift shaft, and they recorded the snare from the top of the lift shaft!
quote:Originally posted by Hank: Sorry this is a little off topic, but I heard a wonderful story once (don't know how true it is) that the huge snare reverb on S&G's "The Boxer" was generated by forcing the doors of a lift shaft in the record company building and placing the snare + mic in the open doorway. OK it may be bulls**t but if it's true then I guess it's 11 out of 10 for creative genius.
From: London
Registered: December 19, 2000 Posts: 1897
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Tell us more, Mr P. *How* can you play drums with snow chains? Does he corroborate the lift-shaft element of "The Boxer" story (which I too have always believed)?
From: The King's Height, Lanarkshire.
Registered: December 13, 2000 Posts: 2419
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QUOTE:"And quite a few guitarists who've sounded better without amps"
After watching some of the highlights of that manufacturerd pop road-show gig at Hampden yesterday, some of the singers should've had their mic's confiscated.
From: Southsea
Registered: June 13, 2001 Posts: 3200
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We'd sometimes record people in the stairwell of our old studio. The best natural reverb that I heard recently was when someone shut a hatch on an empty tank on a seagoing barge - the impulse seemed to take ages to die away.
quote:Originally posted by Hank: I heard a wonderful story once that the huge snare reverb on S&G's "The Boxer" was generated by forcing the doors of a lift shaft in the record company building and placing the snare + mic in the open doorway.
I saw two guys do a cover of The Boxer in a bar one time. The singer wore a crash helmet and hit himself over the head with a metal tea-tray to re-create the snare hits.
To me it sounded exactly the same as the record, although I didn't get the chance to A/B the two ...
From: ye old Wick of Chis
Registered: March 15, 2002 Posts: 1010
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I dunno about best, but the loudest natural reverb I've heard was in a cavernous empty warehouse in the former harrods furniture depository, shortly before being arrested for tresspassing
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