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Re: Dig if u will my research paper Chapter 3
Title: Re: Dig if u will my research paper Chapter
3
At 2:15 PM -0700 5/27/03, Kim Flint wrote:
Mike Battle made his first Echoplex tape
delay prototypes in 1963, according to this post:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=52nksm%24aqu%40casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu
I would guess production would have
started sometime later, so the dates don't appear to match up quite
right.
I just called Mike Battle, and while I can't say there's a
definitive answer to this question, here's what he told me:
Mike and a friend started building tape delay units in the late
1950s, and the units would dribble out to various musicians. It wasn't
until 1964 that he received a patent for the Echoplex, but it seems
likely that a number of them were in circulation under that name even
before that date.
I've found references with dates of 1960 and 1962 for the
Echoplex.
Analog Echoplex fanciers will be happy to know that Mike Battle's
new design, the "TubePlex" will be available in numbers at
the summer NAMM show in Nashville
Here's what Ramon Sender told me about his early exposure to and
use of tape systems:
If Pauline is referring to feeding one tape through two
Wollensaks,
the first on record and the second on playback, this
set-up was first
demonstrated to me by Terry Riley who I think said that he
and
Lamont Young used it during a dance performance of Anna
Halperin's
troupe during the period they were the composers involved
with her.
I then used it for a 'piano canon' performance during a
Sonics Concert,
if I recall correctly. We're talking the fall-spring of
1961-62?
I also had an Echoplex-type machine at the Conservatory
that I
abused happily during some early tape pieces, until I
discovered
I could get a more natural echo by recording in the men's
bathroom.
Les Paul's thing was the Les
Paulverizer.
...which had nothing to do with tape loops. It was just a button
mounted on his guitar that enabled him to start and stop a cassette
deck with a prerecorded backing tape on it.
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