Reverb/echo unit

[dBu]

seems really neat. I'm kinda going for a 60s-70s type reverb for vocals only. Maybe some guitar... Think of the beach boys.

Beach Boys stuff recorded at Gold Star studios in L.A. (Good Vibrations, etc.) was run through David Gold's trapezoidal echo chamber. That sound has NEVER been replicated ANYWHERE else. Not with springs, not with a plate.

I once wasted a lot of concrete blocks and stucco trying to build a chamber that sounds like Gold Star's. I failed miserably. But it was a fun project.

Another great song with that chamber is The Ronettes' "Be My Baby"
Awesome stuff.

 

[AllenM]

Beach Boys stuff recorded at Gold Star studios in L.A. (Good Vibrations, etc.) was run through David Gold's trapezoidal echo chamber. That sound has NEVER been replicated ANYWHERE else. Not with springs, not with a plate.

I once wasted a lot of concrete blocks and stucco trying to build a chamber that sounds like Gold Star's. I failed miserably. But it was a fun project.

Another great song with that chamber is The Ronettes' "Be My Baby"
Awesome stuff.

Oh yeah Im a sucker for that stuff! Also The righteous brothers.
The wall of sound is something I would love to hear in my records...someday

 

[SteveM]

but in my experience you can get a HUGE classic reverb sound from a Tapco 4400 by sending your voice out of your mixer on two different channels, .

That's a good idea, sending it to two. I've never tried that with the Traynor reverb. I'll have to try it.

 

[The Ghost of FM]

Beach Boys stuff recorded at Gold Star studios in L.A. (Good Vibrations, etc.) was run through David Gold's trapezoidal echo chamber. That sound has NEVER been replicated ANYWHERE else. Not with springs, not with a plate.

And this is exactly why I suggested very early on in this thread to invest in a good quality, digital true stereo reverberator.

And while I realize the word "digital" is a dirty work around here, the truth is, one of these units is going to get as close as you're ever going to get to replicating some of those classic environments.

Messing around with spring units of whatever quality is pure ghetto and extremely limiting because you only really get one effect which isn't even remotely close to replicating an environmental space. Digital stereo reverb processors at least try to do that.

Cheers!