Motown Attic Reverb

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.

Motown attic reverb.

If you want to find. Very rare moon and star pattern. Underneath the makers name plate the wood rim is st. Another studio used the bathroom.

Early 1941 martin 00 18. Gorgeous inlay and wonderful sounding instrument. Motown records hitsville usa complex is rumored to have used a hole in the ceiling as a jerry rigged echo chamber. 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.

The back of headstock has some screw marks from an old screw on capo with no pad. Join millions of music makers all over the world on reverb. 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. This is a very early custom made 12 mike ramsey open back banjo.

Will kurk and joe shadid take a trip to rax trax recording studios to explore the musical must haves of the beloved moto. It also has a repaired side crack. 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. Good player grade martin with some repairs.

Like abigail washburns banjo. There is some touch up in that area. 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. Find your next favorite new used or vintage instrument or sell one of your own.

This is one of mike s early banjos and was made in lebanon ohio. 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 top has plenty of play we. 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.

What makes motown sound like motown. Motown used the attic. Other famous reverb chambers. They d put a speaker and a mic in the chosen space to get the sound of the send bouncing around.