Motown Attic Reverb

Motown records hitsville usa complex is rumored to have used a hole in the ceiling as a jerry rigged echo chamber.

Motown attic reverb.

This is one of mike s early banjos and was made in lebanon ohio. The top has plenty of play we. Hitsville s attic chamber was crude and not at all designed with acoustical perfection in mind but its ambience had a certain character that came to shape the iconic motown sound. Very rare moon and star pattern.

In addition to the echo chamber motown also had an emt 140 plate reverb and an echoplex tape delay unit they d use from time to time. Find your next favorite new used or vintage instrument or sell one of your own. What makes motown sound like motown. This is a very early custom made 12 mike ramsey open back banjo.

Will kurk and joe shadid take a trip to rax trax recording studios to explore the musical must haves of the beloved moto. If you want to find. They d put a speaker and a mic in the chosen space to get the sound of the send bouncing around. I am carious to know how reverb was added to 60 s and 70 s recordings.

It also has a repaired side crack. I am guessing that in the 60 s they just recorded the spring reverb that came straight from the amp but in the 70 s most records. At elliot hall of music on purdue s campus they have a whole bunch of speakers erratically hanging in the space above the back of the stage that used to be for a reverb chamber. Key to the sound of countless motown hits was the iconic reverb of hitsville s makeshift echo chamber located in the attic of the house.

The back of headstock has some screw marks from an old screw on capo with no pad. Early 1941 martin 00 18. Like abigail washburns banjo. There is some touch up in that area.

Join millions of music makers all over the world on reverb. Motown used the attic. The house they recorded in in motown had an attic room with sealed walls with a speaker at one end and a mic at the other. It has a correct replaced bridge and saddle.

Good player grade martin with some repairs. Other famous reverb chambers. Underneath the makers name plate the wood rim is st. Another studio used the bathroom.