Having said that, I use reverb to create a space for the entire song, so more often than not, there are multiple elements going into the same reverb. The mixing process is part of the songwriting process and effects should be treated like songwriting tools, in my opinion. At what point in the recording process do you begin using reverb and other time-based effects?Īnjos: I’m a firm believer in doing everything at once. They have three live reverb chambers there that are just wonderful.ģ. A lot of that stuff was done at what is now East West studios, but was Bill Putnam’s Western Recorders at one time. ![]() Thorngren: The first reverbs that really knocked me out were on the Beach Boys’ Surfer Girl and Pet Sounds albums, on songs like “In My Room” - what you’d hear on those guitars and drums. Can you guys at UA please find that out and recreate it for me in a plug-in? Some people say he ran his voice through an old oil tank. I’ve tried to find out definitively what reverb that is on his voice but it’s hard to say. It feels like they’re transmitting a message from another dimension. Martine: The first one that comes to mind for me is the track “Some Velvet Morning,” by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra. On the other end of the spectrum, records like Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required - which uses super-tight reverbs to create an entirely different kind of pop sound - and Paul Simon’s Graceland feature some of my favorite reverbs. More recently, M83’s “Before the Dawn Heals Us” is a modern record that uses some of the same reverberation ideas. Harold Budd, Brian Eno, and Daniel Lanois' ambient album, The Pearl, was also a very evocative record in terms of reverb and delay being a marked color in the sound of the album - very open and adventurous.Īnjos: The use of reverb and time-based effects on U2’s The Joshua Tree, also produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, with songs like “Where the Streets Have No Name,” really stood out for me. ![]() ![]() Killen: I really liked the way the early Blue Nile records sounded, like 1984’s A Walk Across the Rooftops, and also the band Talk Talk, on albums like 1988’s Spirit of Eden. What are some landmark records for you that illustrate interesting and effective ways to use reverb?
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