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tape echo

noun

An audio delay device which records incoming audio to a loop of magnetic tape, then replays it over a series of playback heads before it is erased again by new incoming audio.

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He also brought in the Ray Butts EchoSonic (also used by Chet Atkins), a guitar amplifier with tape echo built in to deliver a slapback echo sound.

It opens with thunder, lightning and rain drops, followed by a strangely keening meteorological sound delivered very probably for the first time on an R&B record – any record – via an Echoplex tape echo, courtesy of guitarist Dennis Coffey (who also worked on the Floaters' 1977 astrological novelty Float On).

Gregg Allman felt the band had rushed through their debut recording and was later unhappy with his vocal sound on the record; "They were recorded with the regular old tape echo "Heartbreak Hotel" setting," he recalled.

In Martin's opinion, the "vocal wailings", which are treated with tape echo and slowly panned from right to left and back again before suddenly ending in the left speaker, contribute to the song's "reception as a 'marijuana dream'".

He strongly disliked the sound of his own voice and often asked for generous amounts of tape echo to be added to his vocal in an effort to bury it deep in the mix.

According to Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, "Track one of the tape was full of distorted, hypnotic drum and organ sounds; track two had a distorted lead guitar; track three had the sounds of a church organ, various effects (the gargling of water was one) and voices; track four featured various indescribable sound effects with heaps of tape echo and manic tambourine".

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The idea behind Plastic Mayan Staircase was to continue and to advance what those guys were doing back when they were just fucking around with tape echos, cheap microphones, and acid.

Dancehall 7-inches throughout the 70s and 80s typically came with both an A-side, and a version on the flip which dubbed out and stripped back the original track's elements— shifting the focus to the producer and his mixing console, often armed with a slew of tape echoes and spring reverbs.

No Pussyfooting (1973), a collaboration with guitarist Robert Fripp from King Crimson, used tape-echo and tape-delay techniques to create new sounds and reached the Top 30 in Britain.

It's an image worth bearing in mind while listening to The 20/20 Experience, not least its closing track, Blue Ocean Floor: seven and a half minutes of backward tapes, echoing piano figures, sub-bass, sound effects and hazy strings.

In the end we used a tape-delay echo, but it sounded new because nobody had done it since the 1950s.

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