EMT 250

Records it appears on · 10

• Surrender

  Cheap Trick · Heaven Tonight, 1978

  • Mix console and effects · Mix effectsVerifiedReverb on send 2, used in its Chorus mode rather than as echo; Ladinsky does not recall what it went on.
• Drift Away

  Dobie Gray · Drift Away, 1973

  • Drum kit · Mix effectsReportedPlate reverb that emphasised the tail of the loosely snared drum.
• Eddie Money

  Eddie Money · Album, 1977

  • Studio chain and mix · Mix effectsReportedBotnick describes an old digital reverb of this model used in the mix.
• Escape

  Journey · Album, 1981

  • Drums · Mix effectsVerifiedDigital reverb, nicknamed the robot, used on the drums as part of a combination with the close room sound and a tape delay on an EMT plate.
• Praying

  Kesha · Rainbow, 2017

  • Lead vocal (mix) · Mix effectsVerifiedAdded as a reverb on the vocals, together with the EMT 140.
• All About That Bass

  Meghan Trainor · Title, 2014

  • Mix bus and effects · Mix effectsVerifiedAn Altiverb EMT 250 plate reverb was set up as one of the session's reverbs.
• Billie Jean

  Michael Jackson · Thriller, 1982

  • Mix (whole track) · Mix effectsVerifiedMain reverb. Said in Swedien's account of this song, though he may mean the album as a whole
• Love Is a Battlefield

  Pat Benatar · Live from Earth, 1983

  • Lead vocal · Input chainVerifiedReverb used on the voice.
  • Guitar · Mix effectsReportedGiraldo thinks the EMT 250 reverb may also have been used on the guitar.
• Purple Rain

  Prince and The Revolution · Purple Rain, 1984

  • Lead vocal · Mix effectsReportedDigital reverb used heavily on the track; the vocal's delay return was also sent to it to thicken the sound.
• Get the Knack

  The Knack · Album, 1979

  • Lead vocal · Mix effectsVerifiedVery short reverb added at the mix on the vocals, just enough to lift the voice; the band wanted no other effects.
  • Drum kit · Mix effectsVerifiedVery short reverb used on the snare drum at the mix.

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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