Wall of Sound

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Technology

At Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, the producer Phil Spector had several guitarists, pianists and drummers play the same part at the same time, and sent the sound through an echo chamber. In this way, all the instruments melted into a single thick wall of sound, the Wall of Sound. It was made to sound overwhelming even from a small radio. Spector treated the studio not as a place to capture a band but as an instrument in itself. Girl groups such as The Ronettes were given their grand sound this way, and later Bruce Springsteen built on it.

Listening

• 
  Be My Baby · The Ronettes, 1963
• 
  You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' · The Righteous Brothers, 1964
• 
  River Deep - Mountain High · Ike & Tina Turner, 1966

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See also

• The studio as instrument
• Multitrack recording
• Transistor radio
• Brill Building and girl groups
• Heartland rock