Can We Recreate The Motown Sound? | Reverb

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• GL

  @Glycinedream · 6 years ago

  This is like porn for audio engineers. Love it

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• BI

  @billhennigh759 · 5 years ago

  I recorded some Motown material in LA in the late 70's. Your effort got close. One thing that we did that you guys aren't doing is using a 4 track machine with vso (variable speed to get correct slap time) for tape slap. And using main channel input modules to return the slap tracks so that the delay can be sent to the live chamber. By using main input channels for returns it allows the ability to re enter the delay dry and wet. This was the same method used to create the Phil Spector 'Wall of Sound'

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• KE

  @kemiible9108 · 5 years ago

  The two guys clicking fingers right through the whole song  is the most important part of making this remake believable.

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• IW

  @iwiggs6870 · 6 years ago

  DAMN that male vocalist for "Aint No Mountain High Enough" absolutely killed it!

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• JO

  @JohnDemkeMarketing · 6 years ago

  I'd love to see Reverb recreate Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.

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• DE

  @dennismoodymusic · 5 years ago

  As an engineer, I recorded hundreds of sessions for Motown with Hal Davis, Mark Gordon, and Barry Gordy from 1975 to about 1985. Temptations, Supremes, Smokey Robison, Thelma Houston. Your very close with your comparison! Very dead rooms, very deadened drums, very little compression. Good job!

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• TH

  @thebreakfastmenu · 6 years ago

  I'm most impressed with how the drums came out. They're pretty much perfect.

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• KE

  @kevink1575 · 6 years ago

  The Funk Brothers might be the most underrated group of musicians of all time.

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• KA

  @KAIOabstrct · 5 years ago

  The vocalists are out of this world, hats off to everyone here damn.

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• MI

  @Minalover100 · 6 years ago

  I'm a 70 year old guy who always wondered how Motown got their unique sound.  Thanks for this fascinating video...

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• SK

  @skaneverdies · 6 years ago

  God damn. Hats off to EVERYONE. The presenters, the researchers, the engineers, and of course, those impossibly on-point session players. Incredible effort.

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• FO

  @form347 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TysRGMSjtpQ&amp;t=1323">22:03</a> I love seeing how happy all the musicians are playing this great music

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