[Tig] Sunset Post Kablooey?--Capitol Records/reverb

[Ted Langdell]

They are "rented out" via equalized telco loops, and if I correctly  
remember one story that I'd read years ago about their use , they  
were used on a stereo Sinatra recording via four sets of equalized  
lines: Two from to the studio where he was recording to Capitol and  
two going back from Capitol.

Here's more on the studio and the reverb chambers.
http://www.51bpm.com/pdf/mix_capitol.pdf

John Eargle's "Handbook of Recording Engineering" notes that "if you  
want to hear what good chambers sound like, listen to any of the old  
Columbia pop recordings from the sixties of Tony Bennett and other  
singers (the building stairwell was used as the reverberation  
chamber!), or any of the Capitol Records vocals recorded in the last  
40 years. Those great chambers at Capitol in Hollywood are still in  
use."

Ted

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On Nov 25, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Jeff Kreines wrote:

> On Nov 25, 2007, at 10:13 AM, Rob Lingelbach wrote:
>
>> wonder where they'll go (Capitol Records that is).
>
> The big loss will be that under the parking lot of the Capitol
> Records building are some really nice acoustic echo chambers that
> were designed and put in when the building was built -- akin to the
> really nice ones Bill Putnam put in at what is now Ocean Way.  These
> are a secret ingredient -- never equalled with plates or digital
> reverb, though that stuff is not bad either.  Maybe they'll put in a
> link to them from the new studios, or put T1 in and rent out time on
> them to any comer?
>
> Time shared echo -- that's a concept!
>
> Jeff "past-futurist" Kreines