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Echo/reverb units were all multi-head tape units, with tube electrics. Sometimes reverb (what's called hall or room, today) were simply created in a room or hall, with a mike at one end and a speaker at the other (very high-tech!). One hit in England was actually given "echo" by putting mike and speaker into an empty water tank.

Amps were always clean, sometimes driven to very slight overdrive.

Picks were heavy tortoiseshell.

Strings were like ship's hawsers - very thick and meaty (3rd was ALWAYS wound).

Other effects hadn't been invented then.]]> Live Sound greybeard https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/50s-sound/#post-83725 https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/50s-sound/#post-83721 Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:04:35 +0000 Live Sound Wes Inman https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/50s-sound/#post-83721 https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/50s-sound/#post-83402 Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:34:13 +0000 Live Sound English one https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/50s-sound/#post-83402 https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/50s-sound/#post-83336 Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:15:58 +0000 Live Sound gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/50s-sound/#post-83336 https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/50s-sound/#post-6125 Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:49:00 +0000
does someone knows how to achieve the sound of american 50s electric guitar sound, like tarantino's movies.?]]> Live Sound bellerophone https://guitarnoise.forum/live-sound/50s-sound/#post-6125