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Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
2021 · TV series · documentary · 1 season
Created by Morgan Neville
Oscar and Grammy Award-winning producer and artist Mark Ronson explores the intersection of technology and musical innovation with his heroes and fellow hitmakers – including Paul McCartney, DJ Premier, Charli XCX, Dave Grohl, and Questlove.
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For those with Apple TV+ subscriptions, I’d recommend Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson, a six-episode series which explores different technologies used in music production.
Episode 3 covers reverb and delves into its history and how it’s implemented using modern digital technology. The presenter gets to visit the famous reverb chambers in Capitol studios – and then a room that was designed and built to have no reverberation whatsoever. He also visits the disused underground oil storage tanks at Inchindown, Scotland which holds the record for having the longest reverberation time for a man-made structure¹.
The episode also features Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” which was cited in the featured article as an example of a gated reverb drum sound (I don’t think Ronson mentioned that this effect was created by combining reverb with a noise gate).
¹ https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/now-we-ve-heard-it-all-acoustic-scientists-shatter-the-world-record-for-longest-ever-echo-9062134.html
This gets featured (they go inside it to film) in episode 3 of this show on Apple TV:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_the_Sound_with_Mark_Ronson