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15th July 2006
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Thread Starter | Thriller Drum Reverb Does anyone know what reverb was used on the Drums (Snare inpreticular) for the Michael Jackson song "Thriller" ?
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15th July 2006
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| It's an early ecoplate made built Jim Cunningham. The Ecoplate had a longer high frequency decay time than the standard EMT plates due to the fact that Jim used stainless steel as opposed to the cold rolled steel used by EMT.
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15th July 2006
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Thread Starter | Is there any unit out there right now that could make a comparable sound? |
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16th July 2006
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| The closest thing would be to get an impulse response of an EMT plate for a convolution reverb (ie:Altiverb or Waves IR-1). I've never seen IRs of the Ecoplate. |
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16th July 2006
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| Have you tried the Plate in CSR from IK? |
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16th July 2006
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Thread Starter | I'm not familiar with IK. What's it all about, do you have any type of link with info. Oh and, I saw your myspace link, so I'm sending you a friend request. |
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http://www.classikstudioreverb.com/Main.html?prod-CSR You will not be sorry with this reverb , it's amazing.... | |
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20th July 2006
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| Billie Jean snare? Or should I know this already? Any other comments on any aspect of drum production on this album would be real cool! I have listened to this many times before I was ever interested in recording. I'm surprised there's never been much discussion on this album here considering it's HUUUGE! Bump |
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I know that the developper of this reverb is here on gearslutz..... Harrie | |
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20th July 2006
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| On Billie Jean, that's also the Ecoplate. You can hear the 16th note predelay. There was (late 90's?) an article in mix mag about the recording of this song. From what I recall, an MCI 2" 16 track was used for tracking the beds, some modified Harrison console was used. SM7 on the lead vocal. I think Bruce Swedien used to sync up two analogue multitracks. psb |
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20th July 2006
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| just logged on to CSR and the verbs examples sounded nice. what i couldn't find was what harware pieces these were modeled after. is there a list somewhere? have the people that used them, liked them better than convolution IRs? i'm looking for a convincing EMT 250, and plates. thank you. |
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21st July 2006
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21st July 2006
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| How did they get that great snare sound on Thriller you ask? I'm pretty sure it was a tC m300 through a pultec, daisy chained to a 777. |
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10th August 2006
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16th August 2006
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| I heard they added just a little bit of verb to Jacksons balls too.--barely audible  |
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18th August 2006
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| reverb used on the Drums for the Michael Jackson song "Thriller"? Quote:
Anyone want to know what happened to it??? Bruce Swedien  | |
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| I had to move all my gear home.... Quote:
There wasn't enough room in my new studio for the Ekoplates, (they are large!!!) so I built a room for them above the studio garage at home. We finished building the studio garage around them!!! In 1994, when I moved back east to Connecticut I discovered that the Ekoplates couldn't be removed, so sadly, I left them behind!!! They are probably still there to this day!!! Bummer!!! Bruce Swedien   | |
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18th August 2006
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I used a beautiful Harrison 4032. One of the first ones..... Can we post photos here? I've got some great ones of that Harrison and the control room... If we can post photos, I'll need a little help. I am a bit computer challenged!!! Bruce Swedien  | |
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18th August 2006
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18th August 2006
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| Yes, Bruce, do post them. Perhaps you have some of the Allen Zentz studio at which you recorded the "Off the Wall" album? Great to see you up here... John Van Nest
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18th August 2006
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| Heyheyhey ! WELCOME, MR. SWEDIEN ! Nice to have you here and of course, we want to see them all !  The first time, I heard Thriller, I was completely mesmerized and the sound was so incredible fantastic, wow !!!!! Thanks for that (and so much more Do you have a few stories about the making of ???? kosi |
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19th August 2006
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| I must say, to this day Thriller still stands as one of the greatest sounding albums ever made. Just listened to it yesterday, and it blew away all the "modern" recordings I'd been listening to previously. Nice to have a legend such as yourself here Bruce! Please feel free to share any other stories...
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19th August 2006
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| Hi Bruce . Amazing to have you here, ive read your posts with great interest over at harmony central. your old recordings are still fresh and relevant and i love listening to them. Ive been listening loads to thriller recently and its one of the finest sounding records i posess. thanks for all your sonic insight |
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