Echoing Acoustics: Difference between revisions

Echoes and reverb can be used to give something a "massive", imposing sound, as [[Power Echoes]] demonstrates. [['''Echoing Acoustics]]''' refers to the use of lots of (often electronic) echoes and reverb in music. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|This isn't that bad]] - for every album where one can't make out the lyrics because they're buried in layers upon layers of reverberation, there are albums where this trope is deployed to create something that sounds [[Rule of Cool|damn cool]].

* Echoes are part of the secret behind [[Phil Spector]]'s famed "Wall of Sound" [[Signature Style]] of production. To elaborate, the Wall of Sound worked by having six or seven guitarists play the lead guitar part in unison, four or five bassists play the bass line in unison, a chamber ensemble of backup singers sing the backup, and so on -- essentiallyon—essentially creating rock orchestras -- andorchestras—and recording the whole thing in an echo chamber. The result was a HUGE, REVERBERATING sound that fast became Spector’s trademark. A great example of the Wall of Sound in action is "River Deep, Mountain High" by Tina Turner, largely considered to be his, and Turner’s, [[Crowning Music of Awesome|crowning achievement.]]