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The Golden World Story
The Echo Chamber
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The painted Motown sign on the
wall slowly disappears
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As described earlier,
the property purchase included a garage.
Ed Wolfrum, one of
Golden World's Engineers, describes it.
"The west side "garage" was a
loading area for disc shipments. It entered into the west
side of the building and there was a conveyer belt that
loaded into the second storey where disks were stored. To the
north, was a very small
disk lathe room with a Neumann MONO Lathe with Auto Pitch
Control, EQ and Levelling and a Studer B-67 with advance
head.
Also in the garage area was a live echo chamber. It was
cinder block construction with splayed, wet plaster walls. I
helped Tom Nixon build that chamber when I first started
working there.
Then sitting next to the chamber was an EMT plate and
a Fairchild spring. When they were loading or unloading we
could not use the chambers because of the acoustic coupling
to the plate and the spring as well as the live room."
Note : Arthur
Ashford of The Precisions recalls the staff using the Echo
Chamber for Putting (golf) contests at lunch breaks.
Also, if you look
at the main building, just beyond the garage entrance, the
walls give the impression that the building has been
extended.
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DESIGN
AND GRAPHICS BY
LOWELL BOILEAU
Notes by David Meikle
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