How It Was Recorded

Gear · delay

Klark-Teknik Delay line (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 1

  • Life in a Northern Town

    The Dream Academy · The Dream Academy, 1985

    • Mix at Hook End · Mix effectsVerifiedThree-tap delay line placed ahead of the plate with a wet-dry mix, giving several delayed impressions of the plate.Settings: three taps

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Models an early studio digital delay, the Lexicon Prime Time, so it has the same grainy, band-limited repeats. It is not a model of the unit on the record, which the source does not name.

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