Before playing a Shadows tune I dutifully change the settings on my Baby Blue to those recommended for the unit and this got me thinking.
The Baby Blue comes with about 30 different settings for about 50 tunes and these will get you close to the original recorded sound. But in a live situation did Hank really change his echo machine settings for each tune or is there a generic delay setting that will cover most, if not all, tunes?
There is a video on YouTube in which the man himself explains that his sound is (or can be) achieved by using two delays: one short and one long. Is it really as simple as that?
If there is a "one size fits all" setting which tune would that be? Does anyone know what Hank did for live shows, particularly the period up to the mid-sixties which is the era that interests me the most?