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I love the crazy mechanical stuff they came up with before solid state analog electronics matured enough to supplant them. Spring and plate reverbs, oilcan del

• qbasic_forever 6y ago
  It's amazing--I love the story of Delia Derbyshire creating the iconic theme for Dr. Who using tape loops and all kinds of wacky tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkIEkLww3lg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkIEkLww3lg
  • squarefoot 6y ago
    The story behind the famous TARDIS sound and Daleks voices is also worth mentioning. https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/interview-doctor-whos-brian-hodgson-on-creating-the-sounds-of-the-tardis-and-daleks/ https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/interview-doctor-whos-b... A broken piano and a ring modulator... those were the days!
• galangalalgol 6y ago
  I'm still not sure a normal desktop would be enough to compute as many paths as that spring tank did. How would you do it solid state analog?
  • rrmm 6y ago
    I was mainly thinking of when CCD bucket-brigade type devices came along. The standard (digital) approach these days is a convolution reverb which take an impulse response of a space (a cathedral or room or what not) and then apply it to the signal.
• jachee 6y ago
  My favorite is the Leslie: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker
  • rrmm 6y ago
    Those are great. I played in a group with an organ player who had a B3 into a leslie. I could just sit there watch the speaker horns whir around. They made a pretty good breeze too.
    • jachee 6y ago
      I got to see Booker T. Jones (of Booker T & the M.G.'s) and his B3-into-dual-Leslies setup at a show a few years back. It was awesome. That man put on a helluva show.
  • mxmilkiib 6y ago
    https://x42-plugins.com/x42/x42-whirl https://x42-plugins.com/x42/x42-whirl "x42-whirl is designed to imitate the sound and properties of the electromechanical rotating speaker device that brought world-wide fame to the name and products of Don Leslie. It is a standalone version of the effect that came to be with the setBfree synth. Rather than simulating the net effect of the electromechanical device, x42-whirl physically models the properties, which results in very accurate representation of the sound of the real device. Since all individual parts are modelled, x42-whirl not only provides advanced control, but also facilitates customizations, some of which are not feasible in the mechanical device."
• tyingq 6y ago
  The Mellotron is the most complicated example of this I'm aware of. Individual tapes for every key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron#/media/File:Changing_the_tape_cartidge_on_the_Mellotron.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron#/media/File:Changing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron
  • notRobot 6y ago
    Here's something similar that you might be interested in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmGaXEmfTIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmGaXEmfTIo
  • tyingq 6y ago
    I should have mentioned that it's a Mellotron in the intro for the Beatle's Strawberry Fields.
• jeremyjh 6y ago
  What's funny is a lot of people spend a lot of money chasing those same plate and spring reverb tones in digital pedals and effect modelers. We never would have come up with those iconic tones without the limitations of the technology! Personally I think the pure digital modelers can do much nicer reverbs but if you want to play surf music, its got to be a drippy spring.