Artists like Pink Floyd and Lee "Scratch" Perry, as early adopters of Space Echo, used the units create trippy, reverb-infused delays and repetitions. These were huge turning points for single-unit delay effects in the ‘70s. In the early ‘70s, Ace Tone-Ikutaro Kakehashi’s company before he started Roland-began to release the EC-1 Echo Chamber, a design that eventually matured into Roland’s RE-101 Space Echo and RE-201 Space Echo. This means making a short feedback and short delay time, with no stereo width or modulations whatsoever-creating rustic, straight-to-the-point slapback delay. Using Live 10’s Echo plugin, we focused on making it sound as much like an Echoplex from the mid-’50s as possible. As the guitarist for Elvis Presley's band, Moore and his use of the EchoSonic were so popular that other manufacturers soon made their own echo units, like the classic Maestro Echoplex line. It’s what gave that slapback delay sound of the 1950s to rock ‘n’ roll guitars like Scotty Moore’s.
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Ray Butts' EchoSonic, built in the early ‘50s, was a portable guitar amplifier that had a built-in tape echo effect.
While previously, audio engineers were using tape and reel-to-reel machines to create the first delay effects during the mixing process, the '50s saw the birth of innovative, standalone echo units. The 1950s and early 1960s was all about slaps and taps. The Slapback Echoes of the ‘50s and Early ‘60s
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You can download the presets we created for each era exclusively through Reverb here. To see how Live 10’s Echo plugin fares when taking on these classic sounds, we’re traveling through different eras of echo and delay, using Live 10 to match a rich history of iconic effects, from the "slapback" echoes of the ‘50s and ‘60s through the side-chain delays of the 2000s. "It was more about capturing the spirit of these things, covering similar sonic space." But Ableton didn’t seek to emulate those classic units exactly. "Precise effects have their own charm, but Live’s new ones mean you create more sounds that don’t just sound like computer music," Kleine said. Precise effects have their own charm, but Live’s new ones mean you create more sounds that don’t just sound like computer music." - Ableton's Christian Kleine In an article explaining the development team’s motivations behind Live 10’s new features, Kleine said they looked into the inner-workings of analog units like the Roland Space Echo, WEM Copicat, and Morley Oil Can to capture some of their character, quirks, and imperfections. Today, we’re diving deep into the DAW’s new Echo effect, a powerful stock plugin that opens up an entire history of echo and delay sounds.Ībleton’s Christian Kleine led the research at the heart of the new plugin. Following Ableton Live 10’s official release earlier this month, we’ve pointed out some of our favorite new features and looked at three powerful mixing tools Live 10 offers.