Mechanical Processors

Question 1

Echo chamber

Answer 1

reverberation rooms, which are carefully designed
to be without echoes

Question 2

Leslie

Answer 2

Rotary cabinet with one speaker horn and a weight on the other side; when spun, it creates a vibrato or Doppler effect

Question 3

Mechanical reverb

Answer 3

Device that creates reverb in a physical manner (ex. Spring reverb, plate reverb)

Question 4

Plate reverb

Answer 4

A thin piece of metal is connected to a driver that initiates a bending wave, which causes the plate to move and cause reverberation; a transducer captures the reverb signal

Question 5

Spring reverb

Answer 5

Torsional wave is applied to a spring; the wave travels down the length of the spring, and bounces back and forth along the length of the spring, creating heat and friction

Question 6

Tape delay

Answer 6

the signal goes in, gets printed onto tape, the tape makes its way from the record head to
the playback head (taking time to do so), and finally the signal is played back off tape and returned to the console