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Started by Kate Lindqvist (@concrete_kate) ·

before reverb plugins, studios had rooms just for echo

A hard-walled room with a speaker at one end and a microphone at the other. You send the signal in and record what bounces around. Then someone figured out a big steel sheet with a pickup on it does a similar job in a fraction of the space.

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How I got here

Started with
“how did old records get reverb”
Ended at
Impulse response

The Trail

  1. “how did old records get reverb” (google.com)
  2. Reverberation (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Echo chamber (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. Capitol Studios (en.wikipedia.org)

    eight concrete echo chambers, 30 feet under the parking lot

  5. Reverb effect (en.wikipedia.org)

    plate reverb: a big steel sheet with transducers on it

  6. Impulse response (en.wikipedia.org)

    how convolution reverb works: record a room's response to one sharp click, then apply it to any sound

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