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Re: [ARSCLIST] The waltz (was Which U.S. orchestra recorded first and Arthur Fiedler)



In 1978 we took piano recordings to Grace Cathedral to record the 7.4 second reverb - a very amazing experience, staying up all night adding to the special feeling of the session...

And it is said the original Elvis slap echo was with a mic down the hall at Sun studios - either in or near the bathroom at the end of the hall. So it's been done - not sure about the flushing though. MUST exist somewhere in outtakes...

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On Apr 4, 2006, at 8:30 AM, steven c wrote:

Well, I always wanted to take my band into a Toronto subway station
during the time when the subway is out of service (0230-0500), since
the stations have a very nice reverb!

Failing that, I always wondered what the results might be if I put us
at a certain location under an overpass I knew...it had a very odd
echo in one place where sounds actually repeated themselves in short
pulses three or four times per second...

Finally, there were a number of different studios and record firms
that used their (tiled) rest rooms as "echo chambers," with speakers
to feed the sound in and mikes to pick it up including echo! I don't
know what happened if someone used the facility mid-session, which
would have added interesting adjuncts to the recording...?!


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