Re: (idm) instant reverb

From Brock Suter
Sent Sat, Oct 24th 1998, 03:14

rod a lester wrote:

>         did you ever think that maybe records create their own sort of
> reverb. when you play vinyl the sounds doesn't come out of the speakers
> instantaneously after the groove hits the needle. it may seem so but i'm
> sure it takes a billionth of a second or so for the sound to come out.
> when the sound comes out of the speakers it creates the same kind of
> frequencies and vibrations that the vinyl did a billionth (or whatever)
> of a second earlier. the vibes and freqs from the speakers (if they are
> good enough [mind you this whole thing probably doesn't work if you just
> have the headphones on]) ought to be able to grind themselves into the
> vinyl using the stylus itself, so there would be a "sound of the sound
> after the sound" you know what i'm sayin'. its like an artificial reverb.

It's called feedback and it's generally hard on the ears and/or the
brain.

I saw the mego guys do a show where they miked the speakers and various
places around the room, played noise on their laptops and mixed the
whole mess together with a small mixer.  Depending on which mikes they
opened up, you get different layers of feedback.

The end result was kaka and the only thing that made it cool was my
girlfriend and I screaming weird noises over the top of the whole mess
to give it some structure.  

:-)

word,

brock