[Tig] OT: Capitol Records/reverb

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Mon, November 26, 2007 1:43 am, Ted Langdell wrote:
> Thanks to Dave Corbitt for supporting the TIG.
>  ====
>
> 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.

In the Wikipedia article on Capitol Records, I found a paragraph about
the echo chambers that surprised me.  Didn't know that the early
Beatles records were processed for echo and EQ in Los Angeles,
though it was clear that the tracks of the British albums
were rearranged or deleted, so the US albums were quite
different than the UK originals, up until Sgt. Pepper's.    ... also
didn't realize that (later in the Wikipedia entry) Les Paul designed
the
echo chambers.

here's the paragraph (just what the heck do they mean by "sonically
unsuited"?)

After initial resistance to issuing records by The Beatles who were
signed to sister EMI label Parlophone, Capitol exercised its option in
November 1963 and helped usher in Beatlemania in 1964. (The
Beatles' earliest US issues had been on the small Vee-Jay label.)
Capitol's producers significantly altered the content of the Beatles
albums (see "Record Altering", below.), and, believing the Beatles'
recordings were sonically unsuited to the US market, added
equalization to brighten the sound, and also piped the recordings
through the famous Capitol echo chamber, located underneath the
parking lots outside the Capitol Tower.

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