Nice echo unit, it's too bad it won't fit in your bedroom

[Geza]

Hi Guys,

I just discovered this nice echo "generator" video and was just wondering have you ever played or seen similar with an electric guitar?


www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8GcHoSIPDg

Geza

[Tone]

It's not suitable for 'our' music, anyway - no multitaps!

[garystrat]

What do you mean, can't you see the guy in the distance with a hammer!

[frankmarvin]

Young ones today have NO idea just how hard it was to get decent gigs with this equipment, however the up side was we could cook bacon and eggs on the AC30 's after 10 min's warm-up.

[sandra]

It's a bit like what Duane Eddy had to come up with to get his sound in the early days

“Now, our echo chamber was actually a 2,000-gal water tank. We went down to the Salt River and visited a junkyard there. Floyd Ramsey, who owned the studio, Jack Miller, the engineer, and Lee and I went round the place and we yelled into tanks that might work as a reverb chamber - they had holes at each end. Lee would go, ‘Whoop!’ and he got an echo out of them.

“He finally found one that he yelled into and he liked the echo, so they bought it for a couple of hundred bucks and trucked it up to the back of the studio. Jack Miller, the engineer, built a pinewood cradle for it. It was about 8ft tall and about 15- or 18ft long. So it was a big thing.

“Jack put a speaker in one end and a mic in the other. He’d run, say, my guitar and the band through the speaker and it’d swirl around in the tank and into the mic at the other end, and we’d have our echo. It worked. Then, of course, Lee would take - when he took it to Gold Star Studios in Hollywood, they had the best echo in the world at that time and he’d have their record, mix it with ours. That’s why it had such a wild echoey sound on many of those records. That’s how we recorded it.”

The full article is here :

Duane Eddy

[DaveC]

"We're gonna need a bigger pedal-board".

DaveC.

[jiminayr]

So, this is piped music !!!!

[glyderslead]

.....and they say drummers take up all the space on a stage!!!

[bazmusicman]

Is that the 'U TUBE' version?