EMT 140

Records it appears on · 16

• Year of the Cat

  Al Stewart · Album, 1976

  • Studio, tape and mix · Mix effectsReportedPlate reverb used at the final mix at Davlen, fed through a tape delay as pre-delay.
• Insane in the Brain

  Cypress Hill · Black Sunday, 1993

  • Mix · Mix effectsReportedOne of two reverbs named for the sparing touches of reverb on the mix; the other was a Yamaha REV-7, and the article does not say which was used where. (recalled with uncertainty)
• Get Lucky

  Daft Punk · Random Access Memories, 2013

  • Lead vocal · Mix effectsVerifiedPlate reverb on vocals (real plate at Conway)
  • Mix bus and mixdown (album-wide) · Mix effectsVerifiedMain reverb across the mix (real plates)
• Eddie Money

  Eddie Money · Album, 1977

  • Studio chain and mix · Mix effectsReportedPlate reverb, named as one of the two main reverbs in the light post-processing of the mix.
• Burning Love

  Elvis Presley · Elvis: Burning Love and Hits From His Movies, Volume 2, 1972

  • Lead vocal · Mix effectsReportedIf the tracks were mixed in Hollywood, the engineer thinks he would have tried plate four on Presley's voice, from the studio's 18 EMT 140 plates.
• Rise

  Herb Alpert · Rise, 1979

  • Overall recording and mix · Mix effectsReportedHahn thinks an EMT 140 reverb was probably used at the mix; the part is not stated.
• Power Trip

  J. Cole · Born Sinner, 2013

  • Guest vocal (Miguel) · Mix effectsVerifiedMiguel's vocals, plus the filtered drum parts where his vocals enter, were sent through this plate reverb during the Los Angeles mixing.
• Praying

  Kesha · Rainbow, 2017

  • Lead vocal (mix) · Mix effectsVerifiedAdded as a reverb on the vocals, together with the EMT 250.
• Beggin'

  Måneskin · Chosen, 2017

  • Drums · Mix effectsVerifiedPlate reverb on the Drums Ambient aux, with short decay and some predelay.
• The Sweetest Taboo

  Sade · Promise, 1985

  • Lead vocal · Mix effectsReportedDelayed plate echo applied to the lead vocal.
• Stay with Me

  Sam Smith · In the Lonely Hour, 2014

  • Lead and backing vocals · Mix effectsVerifiedPlate reverb on both lead vocal tracks of the demo mix.
• Talking Book

  Stevie Wonder · Album, 1972

  • Delay and echo · Mix effectsVerifiedTwo plate reverbs used alongside the tape delay returns when mixing in Quad.
• I Should Coco

  Supergrass · Album, 1995

  • Studio and mix · Mix effectsReportedPlate reverb that the engineer set up as an effects send on the Trident for the mix of the first six tracks.
• Cosmic Thing

  The B-52's · Album, 1989

  • Recording and mix chain · Mix effectsReportedDurack says there may have been a little EMT 140 elsewhere in the mix.
• Just the Girl

  The Click Five · Greetings from Imrie House, 2005

  • Lead vocal · Mix effectsReportedListed in the credits as a stereo plate reverb among the vocal processing.
• Back on the Chain Gang

  The Pretenders · Learning to Crawl, 1984

  • Effects · Mix effectsVerifiedAlbum sessions, not stated for this song: Churchyard recalls an EMT 140 echo with tape delay among the few effects available in the sessions.

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