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Keyboard Magic

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Now this is a Sound System!
« on: July 16, 2015, 12:53:30 AM »
Be cool to run FOH with this one!  8)
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Re: Now this is a Sound System!
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2015, 08:09:38 AM »
Fun to look at, sure wouldn't want to have to haul or set it up.
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robbocurry

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Re: Now this is a Sound System!
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2015, 12:46:19 PM »
Quote from: Rdmitch on July 16, 2015, 08:09:38 AM
Fun to look at, sure wouldn't want to have to haul or set it up.
.....or to have to stand too close to it!
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dpdan

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Re: Now this is a Sound System!
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2015, 03:43:47 PM »
or be in charge of eliminating the comb filtering :)
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sam.spoons

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Re: Now this is a Sound System!
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2015, 10:47:08 PM »
Apparently comb filtering was never an issue with the famed "wall of sound". It was basically a huge HiFi system (using top end HiFi components BTW). Each instrument had it's own array of speakers so the sound emanated from those speakers only. Each array was placed behind the relevant musician so the image perceived by the audience was pretty much perfect. It was hugely impractical and only lasted two or three years (and was constantly evolving) but all accounts suggest it was significantly better sounding than the systems commonly used around that time.

Excellent thread about this very subject here http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1157624&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=365&fpart=1#1157624
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Re: Now this is a Sound System!
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2015, 06:27:49 PM »
It makes my back hurt just thinking about it!  :-\
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