Canyon Echo part 1 Reverb
A look at how to
get your flute
to sound like it's in a canyon
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CANYON
ECHO part 1 REVERB In my
last post we looked at how to purchase a
microphone. For this next post I was going talk
about the next step after that: mic preamps, cables
and setting a good level for your recording. But
there seems to be a fair amount of buzz out there
about how to get Canyon Echo: that great
extra treatment that gives many NAF recordings
their sense of space. Along with this buzz there is
also a lot of misinformation. Read the
full article Here
For
example I heard the following story from a flute
maker. It seems another flute maker had posted a
new flute on his website along with some sound
samples. There were two of them and they both used
the same flute recording. The first one did not
have any effects, what is called "dry", in
our case no Canyon Echo. The second sound sample
was the same music but with some Canyon Echo added
to it to make the flute sound a little nicer. The
next day a customer called the flute maker to
purchase the flute, but he wanted the one with the
"Canyon Echo Option". He thought that the
echo was built into the flute...
The truth is that the canyon echo that gives
so many flute recordings such a great sound is
added to the sound of the flute by devices that
modify it electronically or digitally, thereby
replicating physical spaces. These effects
are really called Reverb, Delay or Echo, depending
on which one is being used. You hear these effects
on all types music produced in the last 40 or more
years, and on all the different instruments on
those recordings: vocals, guitars, drums,
keyboards, saxophones, etc, not just Native flutes.
Also these effects are never referred to in the
larger music world as Canyon Echo. So from
now on I won't call it that either. Regardless of
what you call it, what we are going to do in the
next few posts is look at how these effects work,
and how to add them to your flute sound. Something
you can do whether you play at home, in the studio
or on a stage.
Before
we dive in it will help if you understand a little
about each of the three effects we are going to
deal with: reverb, delay and
echo, what they do to the sound, how they
differ from one another, and then finally how you
can add them to the sound of your flutes. This
basic explanation will make every thing clearer and
easier to understand. I'm going to do this with one
post for reverb and another for delay and echo.
Let's start with reverb.
Reverb
Reverb is that extra part of the sound that
originally came from the place or "space" in which
the sound was performed and heard. Reverb is short
for the term Reverberation.
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