7 Feb
2007
7 Feb
'07
6:06 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 22:48:31 +0100
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb(a)tiscali.fr> wrote:
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 22:24, Folderol wrote:
Pah!
You had to change the tape loops about every couple of hours (cheaper
to make your own from 1/4in triple play tape) and the heads gunked up
damn fast.
In only weeks you had tramlines across all the heads and the tape
lifted and caught on these, giving some really strange effects!
If you were *rich* you got hold of a ferrograph series 5 and ran a
10in (I think) tape at 15ips on it with the O/P fed back into the line
I/P.
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Will J G
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:53:42 -0800
Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
And what about the Watkins "Copycat" endless loop tape echo machine. That was
the cutting edge for echo effects in the 60's.
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I am working on a tune that needs surf guitar. The CAPS AMP IV does a
great Fender Twin, and the #4 cabinet in CAPS Cabinet II seems to do
pretty well as a 2x12 open-back Fender cab. But the classic surf guitar
sound of course includes the high-pitched plinking of a Fender Twin
reverb spring slapping against its metal case. If you haven't heard it,
it's kind of like entering the V'Ger central core, but really
high-pitched and fast, and in 16th notes while double-picking.
Picking out a muted barre chord into a spring reverb turned up way too
high, you can definitely *hear* the springs.
This post hints tantalizingly about someone having created a Csound orc
that emulates a spring reverb:
http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2002/07/0252.html
Anyone know if this is true, and where I could find it?
Mmmm spring reverb. Brings back memories :) (incidentally they are
usually quite easy to repair).
Now anyone who can *truly* emulate that is some form of god!
The all time classic for me was the instrumental Pipline by The
Chantays circ. 1963 I think.