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Thats funny, there is a silo in Montreal that can be remotely accessed for audio!I did use it as send/return for mixes, but I often printed FX back then too (still do if its a pivotal part of the performance).I remember being jazzed when I got my first DDL (effectron) intending to use it for predelay, but went right back to the wobbly old dark echoplex. Genius moments (ie love it that night, hate it next morning) would ocassionally involve wanking around with the s-o-s, moving the head around etc. Some of it actually sounded beautifully cruel and was used.I couldnt use the silo when it rained (had a tin roof) and the ocassional pickup truck passing by made it to the track.Ive had fun with tiled bathrooms and even stuck a tiny speaker into an open clothes dryer and miced it.The ductwork in my basement can sound wonderfully gross, if I hi-pass it it has made it to tape but probably only so I could say that I did it.

Does anyone here make use of true echo chambers?I used to live across a gravel road from an 80 ft tall grain silo. I buried lines across the road and stuck a 3-way JBL stage monitor in there. Then by climbing old rusted rungs that were cemented into the block Id climb up in order to adjust the two mics I had in there. Pre-delay via my old echoplex.The sound was something Id like to have acess to again! But no more climbing those rungs at 2AM, no thank you! Oh to be 23 again.......How about it...any micing of bathrooms, entrance halls, and the like? I remember going to the Field Museum and spending as much time listening to the entrance area as I did looking at the first few displays.

Respect for the silo setup. Did you use it as a regular send and return for mixes ? The little experimenting I've done with this has left me thinking its only worth using large spaces, and obviously that depends on location. A friend of mine used to park in a huge underground carpark, so when I met him after work we'd get blasted down there, and I'd slam the car door at least ten times just to hear this cavernous reverb tail, it was lush. In theory, some of these spaces could easily be hooked up as online chambers, upload a file, press the paypal button and you get a silo/carpark/cathedral fx returned in a few minutes. Heck, I have cheap digital reverb and photoshop, why didn't I think of this before ?

I like to use our live room as an echo chamber (when mixing). It's aproximately 55m2 and 6m high. The top half of the room has quite a reverb tail. It sounds nice (very live, not too bright). Ideally, I set up two speakers and two spaced omnis about four or five meters from the speakers. I like to swap the LR on the returns from the sends. With a little predelay from a copicat or echoplex I preffer it to the emt 140 or bx20.Uhm... Here's a picture of the room:

Whoa! nice room!

I found some interesting information on classic NY echo chambers here...

Thanks!

check it out:http://www.tank-fx.com/

Wow...

Amazing. Its a remarkably nice reverb considering its a random industrial shape, I became quite convinced it was real after I got some construction work sounds on the tail end! But after two processed files, now I keep getting file not found on server when it returns the file...