How It Was Recorded

Gear · reverb

Unidentified Echo chamber (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 5

  • Lowdown

    Boz Scaggs · Silk Degrees, 1976

    • Console and chamber · Mix effectsVerifiedPerry says the reverb heard on the track comes from the studio's live chamber, with no electronic echo.
  • I Will Survive

    Gloria Gaynor · Love Tracks, 1978

    • Lead vocal · Input chainReportedRouben recalls choosing the long one of the studio’s two echo chambers for this song’s vocal.
  • Time Has Come Today

    The Chambers Brothers · The Time Has Come, 1967

    • Psychedelic middle-section effects · Mix effectsVerifiedThe playback-head signal from the delay tape machine was sent to an echo chamber and returned to the record head, creating repeating, refolding echoes.
  • Ho Hey

    The Lumineers · The Lumineers, 2012

    • Mix chain · Mix effectsVerifiedStudio echo chamber supplying the reverb; he says all the echo on the album came from it.Position: Fed from the post-fade send on the monitoring board
  • You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

    The Righteous Brothers · You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', 1964

    • Lead and backing vocals · Mix effectsReportedGold Star's cement-lined echo chambers supplied the reverb, with extra added to the lead vocals at the mix.

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

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