In a Zoom session I attended this morning, one of the participants discussed "gated snare/gated reverb,"referring to a sound of the 1980s that was totally familiar to me, but using terminology I had not previously encountered. A brief search led me to this video, which offers a concise and amply illustrated explication of the genesis and evolution of the sound and its technological basis.
On one Led Zep tune (forget which), the guitar was played through reverb, the tape played backwards, and that backwards reverbed guitar was used for the song.
ReplyDeleteFunny how they kept lumping Prince in with the rest when he was using literally the inverse of the other reverbs.
ReplyDeleteFinally, for the first time you post something about which I know more about than you. I'm gonna feel smug for a few minutes.
ReplyDeleteThat's a low hurdle to jump over, because I know nothing about gated reverb. Feel free to stay smug.
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