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The floor was ridged, wide-cracked, and uneven, and in front of the stove it was worn through and repaired with a five-gallon oil-can hammered flat and double.
CHAPTER I 2010
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Fang had never seen him in daylight before, only in flickering reflections from oil-can fires in the train tunnels below New York City.
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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Then, in a minute, the Station relapsed into stupor as the stoker of the Cattle Train, the last to depart, went gliding out of it, wiping the long nose of his oil-can with a dirty pocket-handkerchief.
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Fang had never seen him in daylight before, only in flickering reflections from oil-can fires in the train tunnels below New York City.
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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I've been intrigued by oil-can delays since this post, but I had no idea that Morley built an oil-can delay pedal.
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You'd be better off with either a good digital repro that's going to sound exactly like that oil-can reverb you're looking for, or using a good long-tail reverb if you aren't looking for that particular sound.
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I knew about spring reverbs and tape echo, but until this morning, I'd never heard of oil-can delay, so I'm indebted to Joe for telling me about Tel-Ray: Instead of tape, they used what looks like a tuna can filled with electrolytic oil.
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These things were pretty mainstream in the early '60s - Tel-Ray licensed their designs to Fender, Vox and Gibson - so it seems extraordinary that I'd never heard of oil-can effects.
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These things were pretty mainstream in the early '60s - Tel-Ray licensed their designs to Fender, Vox and Gibson - so it seems extraordinary that I'd never heard of oil-can effects.
Archive 2004-12-01 2004
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I knew about spring reverbs and tape echo, but until this morning, I'd never heard of oil-can delay, so I'm indebted to Joe for telling me about Tel-Ray: Instead of tape, they used what looks like a tuna can filled with electrolytic oil.
Archive 2004-12-01 2004
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