Some companies like Sam Phillips' MEMPHIS RECORDING SERVICE used a cheap form called 'slap'. Bill Putnam built the first deluxe groovy chamber at his Universal Recorders, Chicago, USA. Radio station-like echo chambers were built. The home environment was expected to furnish whatever reverberation there would be.Īfter 1952, the 'High Fidelity' era began, upstart Mercury LIVING PRESENCE records had natural hall reverb so the trend began on ALL records. The records themselves sound wonderful from the 1925-34 era, the best 78's of all time.ġ935-52: Dry as a bone, drapes, carpets in studios to make that thuddy sound of the era (the Swing Era). By this they meant tinny on their crappy sounding jukeboxes of the era. Hear the difference? The Columbia sounds more lifelike.ĭecember, 1934, Jukebox Operators Of America send open letter to record companies: 'Stop making 'tinny' sounding records, stop recording in 'natural' places like churches, etc'. Columbia from 1925-31 did this on purpose to add a slight resonance to their recordings. Just sound slightly bouncing off the walls of the recording venue. Was it in the Duke Ellington thread?Īgain, that is natural 'verb on the pre-1934 records, NOT any kind of chamber.

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