Words by Neil Boland When recording, we can add echo or reverb to a track easily. The engineer does something mysterious, often with the click of a mouse or the turn of a dial, and there you have it, an effect that adds atmosphere through the artificial re-creation of the sound of a much larger space, such as a wooden hall or church.  That’s the experience most musicians are used to these days. Let’s consider the studios of the 50’s and 60’s, when such hi-technology didn’t exist. A ‘spare’ room that would be dedicated to the foosball table today was actually used for generating echo or reverb back then. One of the most famous of these is actually purpose-built at RCA Studio B in Nashville Tennessee, which takes up the entire second story of the facility, connected by a vent to the ground floor tracking room. The band’s ‘dry’ sound travels up to the echo chamber where microphones capture the natural reverberation. You can hear that sound on over half of Elvis Presley’s catalogue, recorded at the Music Row studio. Do we have access to something like this in our own backyard here in good old Melbourne? Yes. Soggy Dog … Continue reading RUBBER DUCKIES AND REVERB