https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxz6jShW-3E
Great summary on the history and technology behind the particular reverb style that defined the decade.
There's even more to the story that isn't covered by the video though. Around the same time as Phil Collins was experimenting in Britain, there was The Power Station studio in New York which was deliberately constructed to get those heavy acoustics reminiscent of 60s Motown records. More than just an isolated freak accident, the reverb-soaked sound of the 80s was sort of an inevitable cultural backlash to the artificially dry sound that pervaded the 70s.
Great summary on the history and technology behind the particular reverb style that defined the decade.
There's even more to the story that isn't covered by the video though. Around the same time as Phil Collins was experimenting in Britain, there was The Power Station studio in New York which was deliberately constructed to get those heavy acoustics reminiscent of 60s Motown records. More than just an isolated freak accident, the reverb-soaked sound of the 80s was sort of an inevitable cultural backlash to the artificially dry sound that pervaded the 70s.