Motown Attic Reverb

What makes motown sound like motown.

Motown attic reverb.

They d put a speaker and a mic in the chosen space to get the sound of the send bouncing around. This is one of mike s early banjos and was made in lebanon ohio. I am guessing that in the 60 s they just recorded the spring reverb that came straight from the amp but in the 70 s most records. Another studio used the bathroom.

Very rare moon and star pattern. Other famous reverb chambers. It also has a repaired side crack. I am carious to know how reverb was added to 60 s and 70 s recordings.

In addition to the echo chamber motown also had an emt 140 plate reverb and an echoplex tape delay unit they d use from time to time. The house they recorded in in motown had an attic room with sealed walls with a speaker at one end and a mic at the other. The back of headstock has some screw marks from an old screw on capo with no pad. Motown records hitsville usa complex is rumored to have used a hole in the ceiling as a jerry rigged echo chamber.

Find your next favorite new used or vintage instrument or sell one of your own. This wasn t a traditional reverb chamber it wasn t controlled from the board adjusted by positioning mics to pick up the desired amount of reverb. Key to the sound of countless motown hits was the iconic reverb of hitsville s makeshift echo chamber located in the attic of the house. Will kurk and joe shadid take a trip to rax trax recording studios to explore the musical must haves of the beloved moto.

Early 1941 martin 00 18. This is a very early custom made 12 mike ramsey open back banjo. Join millions of music makers all over the world on reverb. It has a correct replaced bridge and saddle.

Motown used the attic. Gorgeous inlay and wonderful sounding instrument. In our attempt at recreating the motown sound we used the audio ease altiverb reverb plugin universal audio s digital emulation of the emt 140 and a fulltone tube tape echo. There is some touch up in that area.

The top has plenty of play we. Like abigail washburns banjo. Underneath the makers name plate the wood rim is st. At elliot hall of music on purdue s campus they have a whole bunch of speakers erratically hanging in the space above the back of the stage that used to be for a reverb chamber.