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humanpotatohybrid wrote:
Interesting. What's the point of having radio reverb?
If you're not old enough to remember the 1960s, reverb units were all the rage. All the rage. Radio deejays ran their microphones through reverb units. Record companies used reverb on their recordings.
Reverb was also the rage on electric guitars in the late 1950s as accessory units and then as built-in features on guitar amplifiers. Les Paul and Mary Ford recorded with reverb, tremolo and echoplex effects– both on their guitars and on Mary's voice.
Jimi Hendrix was experimenting with reverb, tremolo, echoplex, Leslie and more into the 1970s.
Many of the car units (1960s-1970s) were universal-fit aftermarket. They sold like hotcakes for a while. But some units were even factory options. My Oldsmobile Starfire convertible had optional "Vibrasonic" on the rear speaker. Other cars had them too.
A lot of these things faded away for cars when stereo-FM was introduced (1966 Cadillac) and became a mainstay. And FM radio exploded in popularity and ceased to be just a haven for jazz aficionados and classical music. FM pumped up the music and became mainstream. The big, round & deep sound of reverb was included in the broadcast from FM stations.
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