It sounds like one track has an almost dry tape echo with a very short decay time and the other is spring reverb or EMT plate reverb.
I agree with Clay that the top has been rolled off.
It's not M300 strings though. It sounds more like heavily EQ'd M400.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> wrote:
A question for those with talented ears: I'm going to put some Tron down on a tune recorded by a mate, and I was hoping to get a sound similar to that which Bob Ezrin pulled off on Caroline Says II on Lou Reed's Berlin. Trouble is, I've tried a few things and nothing sounds quite like it.Here is Ezrin doing his thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOlgGUcWaE#t=90Obviously it's double tracked, but there is something very odd about the filtering. Anyone got any ideas?Mike