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What started off as a desire to have recordings sound more ‘real’ and less flat has become a 60-year obsession. Given the design of concert halls and religious buildings, clearly reverb is a ...

As anyone who's ever experienced the deeply disconcerting aural dead zone of an anechoic chamber will know, without reverberation, the world would be a strange place indeed. Sound waves bouncing off ...

When the Harmonicats' "Peg o' My Heart" was released in 1947, the harmonica instrumental would have been just another catchy tune on the radio were it not for the surreal, atmospheric reverberation ...

From concert-hall designers to pop record producers, everyone in the music industry knows we love reverb. But why? THE TALL, arched, windowless space has just enough light for me to make out the ...

We continue our investigation into all things reverb with a quick primer on its behaviour, as broken into a series of events, from pre-delay to diffusion. The figure below is a simple diagram ...

Accounts vary on the first use of artificial reverb, but the most widely acknowledged origin story just turned 65. That was the harmonica instrumental "Peg O' My Heart," and it was a No. 1 hit in the ...