Echo chambers The first reverb effects, introduced in the 1930s, were created by playing recordings through loudspeakers in reverberating spaces and recording the sound. The American producer
Bill Putnam is credited for the first artistic use of artificial reverb in music, on the 1947 song "
Peg o' My Heart" by the
Harmonicats. Putnam placed a microphone and loudspeaker in the studio bathroom to create an echo chamber, adding an "eerie dimension". Used by the Hammond company to add reverb to
Hammond organs, In 1959, the Hammond necklace reverb was about 13 inches wide, 1 inch deep and 14 inches tall. Plate reverb was introduced in the late 1950s by
Elektromesstechnik with the
EMT 140. It was pioneered by the English recording engineer
Hugh Padgham and the drummer
Phil Collins, and became a staple of 1980s pop music. The first real-time convolution reverb processor, the DRE S777, was announced by
Sony in 1999.
Shimmer reverb , producing modulated reverb, octave up and octave down shimmer Shimmer reverb
alters the pitch of the reverberated sound, an effect often used in
ambient music. == References ==