Motown Attic Reverb

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.

Motown attic reverb.

Motown records hitsville usa complex is rumored to have used a hole in the ceiling as a jerry rigged echo chamber. 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. Will kurk and joe shadid take a trip to rax trax recording studios to explore the musical must haves of the beloved moto. Hitsville s attic chamber was crude and not at all designed with acoustical perfection in mind but its ambience had a certain character that came to shape the iconic motown sound.

There is some touch up in that area. 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. The back of headstock has some screw marks from an old screw on capo with no pad.

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. 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. Join millions of music makers all over the world on reverb. Other famous reverb chambers.

I am carious to know how reverb was added to 60 s and 70 s recordings. Like abigail washburns banjo. 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. Good player grade martin with some repairs.

Very rare moon and star pattern. Find your next favorite new used or vintage instrument or sell one of your own. It has a correct replaced bridge and saddle. Motown used the attic.

Underneath the makers name plate the wood rim is st. 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. Gorgeous inlay and wonderful sounding instrument. It also has a repaired side crack.

The top has plenty of play we. This is a very early custom made 12 mike ramsey open back banjo. 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. Early 1941 martin 00 18.