Re: Echo

[nuhuc@juno.com (Rick Kelly)]

On Wed, 08 Jul 1998 12:23:45 EDT Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU> writes:

>No, it wasn't just the studios - they had some additional electrical
>help.  They had a spring reverb unit (built by Fisher, I believe) to
>generate that echo.  I know this, because said unit was "rescued" by
>some folks at WMBR (may have still been WTBS at the time) after the
>1510 studios moved.  The story I heard (wasn't yet there myself at
>the time) is that the gear in the old studios was going to be thrown
>out, and somebody knew somebody, so the 88.1 folks were allowed to
>rummage through, and the reverb unit was still there, and it would 
>just have been tossed out, so...
>
>The rack unit in which the reverb was mounted was labelled "The Cave",
>but I don't know if that label was added at 'MBR or if it went by that
>name at 'MEX too.  I suppose Arnie would know...

When doing radio in the seventies and eighties, I got to work on a couple
of stations with reverb.  It was pretty cool -- the effect was put in the
chain to add depth, make the station sound different.  It was done in a
number of different ways.  At WHUC, Hudson, NY we used a Fisher "Space
Expander" home reverb unit rigged in the audio chain.  It sounded
cheap... it was a spring unit... but we loved it.  At WARE in Ware, they
had a pretty good quality unit that worked well, gave a very professional
sound.

The best though, was the one I built in the mid-sixties for my pirate
station.  I put a speaker in an old metal locker.  Taped a mic to the
metal locker, then fed the station audio through the speaker, and fed the
mic through the board too.  Of course, if any one component was potted up
to much, feedback would result.  The sound, though, was great... no
"spring" sound... just a nice, tapering reverb.  Hey, we were 100
milliwatts, with no way to measure our modulation, and distorted to the
"nth" degree... but we had reverb, just like WABC!

Rick Kelly

















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