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In Reply to: RE: a fun read on the Dead's Wall of Sound over AM coffee. John Curl, enjoy posted by rhyno on July 12, 2015 at 05:13:36
Interesting article.
I heard the Dead play once through that PA. It was in the old Charlotte Coliseum (now Bojangles arena) sometime in the early 70's.
I though it sounded awful. The balance was good, but halfway back into the room, the vocals were lost in a sea of reverberation.
It was one of the events that got me into the live sound business. I knew I could do better. Later, I got lots of experiences mixing in that room. I got to find out what they were dealing with. It truly is an awful room, made for basketball and not music. The only descent results I have gotten in that room have been with acts that played at very low volumes.
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I'm glad to read that you 'came around' from your initial comment that it sounded awful, and realized that the problem is the room. There's not a lot that a sound system designer can do except try to control the speaker directivity and put as much of the sound as possible into the audience instead of all over the walls and ceiling. Humans are good wideband absorbers.For ANY band which tours, it's impractical to use different large scale sound systems in different kinds of venues. And keep in mind that the WOS was a giant step forward in large scale live concert reinforcement back when they were designing it in 1973. Imagine how bad it would have been using the then-common left and right "stacks". Yikes!
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Edits: 07/12/15
Absolutely the room. If they had the technology back then to fly it, they could have angled it down at the audience, instead of shooting it over their heads where a lot of it becomes useless reverberation.
indoors. Nor why they would try to use them....outdoors they shined, sounding just like the Altec Voice of the Theaters A-7s in my front room at the time...only louder!
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