The Shadows Echoes_From Then To Now_Paul Rossiter
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2011
- This video has been produced for those who have an interest in hearing the sound of the various echo units used by Hank Marvin and The Shadows.
Emphasis is given particularly to the post Meazzi era that included the Binson, Echoplex and various Roland echo units, up to EFTP and finally the TVS3.
The audio was produced by Paul and the video was produced by Spike with editing help from Paul.
I think the amount of research done by Paul is to be commended as it represents a memorable collection of information that will hopefully also be a useful historical reference point.
Spike
8/12/11
Rest in peace Mr. Professor Rossiter
My deepest condolences
Thanks for for what you have meant to all of us.
you have made priceless history with all your skills
Amazing thank you Paul & yr team, for gracing us the ( The greatest of all times instrumental group. The Shadows.) interesting information. 🎶🎸🎵🎼🎤📀📀📀❤️❤️
Hi Spike,
Paul obviously did extensive research and analysis to identify the various echo units over a fifty year period. It must have taken a long time to collate this information. It was a great meander through history that should be of interest to any Shadows fan who wants to delve beneath the surface of their changing sound over the years. It is great that we can have all those sounds in a single TVS3 unit. Thanks again and all the best to the TVS team!
Cheers, James
Wonderful video thanks guys love Hanks playing seen him live many times one time his wife Carol was with him thats her on his first lp she signed it for me as well as Hank
A big, big thank you to Paul an his team for this invaluable insight to the history of the sound of The Shadows. Priceless, many thanks from a lifetime fan.
Kind regards Roger
Great stuff Paul.Nice to see my picture of the first TVS 3 echo unit in the UK..
All the best to the TVS team.
What an amazing video. Thanks Paul for all your efforts in producing it; it has all paid off because you have produced something of great historical significance in respect to Hank Marvin and the Shadows.
Once again an excellent piece of research and presentation. Great to see the cover of some of their earliest albums, most of which I used to own but have long since disappeared.
Living in Townsville in the 70's and then for a few years in the Pilbara to the mid 80's I did not realise that they had produced all of those albums then. The regional radio stations would only play the then current pop tunes.
I saw them live in Qld in 86 or 87 and am sure that they were using the 301.
Thanks again.
Thanks for the excellent research and history lesson. For me it was all about the Classic vintage sound of the Fender Strat, Flat wounds and the Vox nasal middle sound unlike the later clearer tones of a VoX AC30 Top boost, of course for me the sound of the Meazzi was a marriage made in heaven. I have come full circle in now decrying the clinical digital echo recreations and have echo units galore. I guess the TVS concept is best in the digital bunch for reasons explained, but hanker after the true analogue sound. The idiosyncrasies of old early analogue units fwiw and my money cannot be recreated by mathematical analysis and digital reproduction. Our obsession with all things echo is a generation thing and modern guitarists will never find this kind of in depth analysis interesting as we do, but the use of any echo in a guitar instrumental is a personal thing of matching the echo sound to the phrasing so far the composition, so hat's off to Hank for the countless hours he must have spent trying all manner of echoes until he felt he'd got 3 red cherries in a row, and that sums up the magic f Hank, as his style and timing of his phrase playing was sheer magic. In summary we are all lucky in our late lives to all afford a decent fender and the albeit clinical patches that allow us to stand in front of a mirror no longer miming with a cricket bat, but actually getting a damn good approximation that made us relive our 60's youth, but instead if a wardrobe mirror our dearest and loved ones as an audience that put a grin our faces much like Hank's lol Now back to my Zimmer frame made out of an old VOX AC30 stand .......happy days . ..
The best echo box I've ever had !
Being American, I was brought up on The Ventures. I only discovered The Shads when I bought a Wilson Bros. 'Mosrite' model from a guy who clued me in...at age 50.
I was shocked and proceeded to binge-listen on UA-cam. THIS is from where that whole genre started and Hank Marvin/ Shadows (along Chuck Berry) may be the earliest greatest influence of ALL guitarists Inc. Beatles, Stones, Gilmour, Clapton, on-and-on.
This research must have taken Paul years to put together and I must say many thanks to him and to Spike for putting this video together and providing a wonderful reference for us Shadows 'nuts'.
Regards
Phil.
Thank you for your detailed analysis, I’ve playing Shadows music since I was a young boy. Thank you for enhancing my echo awareness even more.
R.I.P Professor Rossiter
Thank you for 40 minutes very interesting information about Hank and his echoes, not least from a historical perspective.
Cheers
//Rolf
Great post to revisit. Only now notice that at 24:58 Indigo is mentioned while Arty's Party, the next song on the album, is actually played.
super intéressant et excellemment documenté ! bravo !!!! ( a shadows fan since 50 years ! )
Thanks to everyone for their kind comments....its really appreciated!
Stuart: I'm happy you recognized the first TVS3 sold in the world which is the belonging to you :)
I guess you are part of our history too. Also other than Hank Marvin you are the only other person with 2 x TVS3's ...one for home recording and one for live playing...perfect :)
Cheers
Spike
Now you know why hank uses the TVS 3 Really good presentation, Well done,
Very interesting video, personally I love the sound the roland 301 produced on cavatina etc beautiful sound
Superb.Thanks for all your effort.
The best echo unit I ever had
loving this Spiro, i play a lot of shadows tunes in my gigs and spent a lot of time trying to figure out the delays .. loving your take on everything :) thank you for posting :)
Really a great video.
Greetings from Chile
Alexander
Thank you Paul, interesting video.
fantastic thanks for posting realy helps out kenny
Äntligen fick vi veta att Hank hade ett Binson eko, samma som vi hade på 60 talet!!
Bas Olle
Great post,thank you !
Regards /
dont no y he kept changing his echo boxes , no 1 the best
Very informative stuff, thank you, the best most spacious and mysterious sounding echo is the Meazzi, very hard to get that effect especially on digital. I have experimented for years and where most people go wrong (including Hank) is evenly spaced repeats, tiz best to leave a longish gap before the 1st repeat, on most echo's this cannot be done. . To hear what I mean on the cheap, switch off the 1st playback head on a Watkins Copicat and slow down the motor.....
gr8 explanation, thnx !
Hi Everyone
Thanks for your comments and feedback.
Kenneth:
There is a website where you can get help on the Zoom G3 somewhere. Try a Google search on it!
Fly:
The wine makes all the difference mate!
BTW: Recording shirtless also helps with that sound :)
Steve:
Thanks for your comments!
1947jones
Visit the TVS website at www.tvsspecialtyproducts.com
and watch the 4 teaching videos on recording and sound.
Cheers
Spiro
i burst out laughing when I saw the glass of wine near the end of the vid
I wished other artists were featured even people like Van Halen and Pink Floyd and other people who use those effects like Peter Frampton I remember a thing I think it was called a rolling k1000 or something like that I am not sure if it was interesting but I wish it's that stuff that sounded been produced in America back in the late 50s and early 60s with the Surfers
I have an Echorec B2 in for repair, be interesting to try it when it's repaired..
hi paul ,great video , i have a q20alesis ineed help with , cant purchase eftp any more. , cheers bryan . perth
Hi I am thinking of buying a Zoom G3 and wanted to know if you can enter settings to load The Shadows sounds and perimeters.
There is a zoom software website and you can download patches is this easy to do?
Any advice would be appreciated
Thankyou
I would love to sound like The Shadows can you please tell me what equipment I need to buy and with model numbers
To me, the best sound is the re-301 with the boogie
@PhilHaw
Thanks Phil
Spike
hank never mentions his echo boxs it all in wot sound comes out on the day
did hank ever use the RE-501 or 555 ?
Hi Paul did hank ever use watkins copy cats ?