Neue Episode von Vox’ Earworm, die sich dem ganz typischen Sound der 1980er Jahre widmet. Im Fokus: das gated Reverb.
But there’s one sound that will always be timestamped to the 1980s and people just love to hate it. It’s called gated reverb.
Over the past few years, a general nostalgia for the ’80s has infiltrated music, film, and television. In pop music, producers have enthusiastically applied gated reverb to drums to create that punchy percussive sound — used by every artist from Phil Collins to Prince — to pay homage to their favorite artists of the 1980s.
I unapologetically love gated reverb, and so for my second episode of Vox Pop’s Earworm I spoke with two Berklee College of Music professors, Susan Rogers and Prince Charles Alexander, to figure out just how that sound came to be, what makes it so damn punchy, and why it’s back.