Diese Bill Putnam Aufnahme – Little Walters „Juke“ vom 12 Mai 1952 – dokumentiert vermutlich das erste Slapback-Echo auf dem Schlagzeug. Darauf wurde die Hihat von Elgin Evans elektrifiziert.
>>Putnam added reverb to ’Juke,’ an instrumental based on a lick played in live gigs that was a #1 hit for Jacobs in 1952 and the biggest seller for Chess to date. The song had, ”the presence of a variable slap back echo,” Peter Doyle comments in his book, Echo and Reverb: ”By the fifth verse, the stop verse, the drum triplets seem to be now quite clearly produced by tape echo, displaying the characteristic ’syncro-sonic’ machinelike strictness. By the sixth verse it becomes clear that delay has been added to the harp.” [9, p. 180]
This tape effect, that Sam Phillips would make famous as slapback echo, was different from the ’boxcar’ echo Les Paul created earlier, fitting a number of movable playback heads. [9, p. 181]<<
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