Re: [Harp-L] little walter




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Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:52 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] little walter



listing to LW for 30 years and trying to sound like him,it sounds like he is
using a reverb all the time.somtimes i here a echoplex type sound like on
juke.do you guys agree???


tom in ct.

Hi Tom,
When Juke was made, the Echoplex wasn't invented until a good five years after the tune was recorded (Juke came out in 1952, and the Echoplex in 1957). Elgin Edmunds drumming is not an effect at all from reverberation chambers or anything else, but it is a drummer's echo effect that they actually play with the sticks, and I've seen a number of big band as well as blues drummers do it well (and these are guys that did NOT have the drums miked at all). The reverb back then was often came from the signal fed into a pipe that was routed to a bathroom with a mike at the other end, if at all during that time, so basically, it was recorded dry. He did use an echoplex and/or reverb unit much later in the 50's, as Louis Myers attested to in an interview of him and Walter in an early Living Blues mag issue.


Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
MP3's: http://music.mp3lizard.com/barbequebob/







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