“Why are the Sun sessions Elvis’s best? It’s the spontaneity. That short echo. They’ve got a little Nebraska in them. Those records, they’re pretty closely connected in some strange metaphysical way. I suppose their relationship would be in the characters but also, without a doubt, in the sound. It’s a dissociative sound. It’s the sound of distance. It’s the sound of the past, of history, in some way. It just brings all of that with it.
“When you really put slap on something, that particular echo, you’re altering time and space. The echo effects were essential to Nebraska, which is one of the first things we messed up when we went to try and make it better. You’re not going to mix a whole record through an Echoplex when you’re doing a proper mix in a studio. But even the kind of echo found in a professional recording studio was too clean. Once again, we were gifted by our gear and the equipment that we were casually using at that moment.“
– Bruce Springsteen in Deliver Me from Nowhere (2023)
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