It’s hard to believe when we look at our hard drives, full to the brim with algorithmic, plate, chamber, spring, and convolution plugin reverbs, that at one time if you wanted this amazing effect, you’d have to go to an actual room to get it.
Only a performance hall or a specially constructed echo chamber – with a microphone at one end and speaker at the other – would get you a beautiful reverberated effect. But such was the demand for the sound in the all-new recordings of the time, the first reverb emulations were then developed. And software they were certainly not…
The first of these was the spring reverb, created, believe it or not, to partially
