Phase Linear and Pink Floyd

First time I saw it too. Jason is right though, it is a pretty cool read.
 
I have one anyway then add some weed and it's like multiplying negative numbers, way up on the plus side....
 
Very cool information. I used to marvel at the sound reinforcement done at the big shows in the 60s and 70s. The best sound I ever heard was at the Fabulous Forum in Los Angeles (Inglewood, to be precise) on New Years Eve 1976. It was the Bi-Centennial New Years performance of the Beach Boys and I figured it was going to be a boring night...I was into heavier music at the time. Was I ever wrong. Reading this thread it must have been done by the Claire Bros. with the above described hanging amps and speakers. The sound was really fantastic. I spent as much time trying to figure out how they did it as I did watching the show.
Thanks for sharing all this, I love reading and learning about it.
 
If I remember well , Emerson , Lake and Palmer used 17 PL 700Bs and many Klpisch La Scala .
Is it right ? I read this on an Italian hifi magazine in the '70s , but now I have not found evidence of this
in the web .
Ciao
Marco
 
Man, I would love to find one of those anodized blue faceplates for the 400. I also wish that image of the gold faceplate 700B was bigger! Purple 700B's bring 'em on!!!!
 
It's cool the way that PA systems have evolved over the years. As they developed, the guitar amps grew too. Pete Townsend went to JIm Marshall and had him build the first 4x12 guitar speaker cabs, and eventually the Marshall Major, a 200 watt guitar amp came out. All tube, the Major was a beast...and the PA systems continued to grow. Before they got clean and powerful, the guitar, bass, keyboard, etc. all relied on their own separate amps for concert levels, and the stage volume was intense to say the least. But today, the huge instrument amps are no more. The stacks of amps you see in the backline at concerts are for show. The real power comes from the PA system, and the soundman has complete control of the system (as a musician, that caused me a bunch of grief, because I lost control of the dynamics of my guitar or bass). The guitar's basic tone comes from a fairly small (typically) tube amp, usually 50 watts or less in output, maybe one 4x12 cabinet actually running. It's mic'd up and mixed out at the house board in the audience or at the back of the hall. Today you essentially have a recording studio onstage with everything mic'd up and mixed down. The drum kit alone has more microphones on it today than the whole band used to.
Done right, this gives us fantastic sound. I saw Steely Dan at the D.T.E. Music Theater in the Detroit area a few years ago, and it sounded like I was sitting on my couch at home. Amazing.
This is a great thread...keep the history coming!
 
Quote: The speaker cables all had twist-lock 220-volt plugs … a bit beefy for speaker power but they never failed.

They used twist lock 220 volt plugs for SPEAKER PLUGS? That's insane. Didn't they know that someday, somewhere, somebody...would plug a speaker into a 220 volt supply? Really shortens the life of a good driver!:happy6::happy6::happy6:
 
premiumplus said:
Quote: The speaker cables all had twist-lock 220-volt plugs … a bit beefy for speaker power but they never failed.

They used twist lock 220 volt plugs for SPEAKER PLUGS? That's insane. Didn't they know that someday, somewhere, somebody...would plug a speaker into a 220 volt supply? Really shortens the life of a good driver!:happy6::happy6::happy6:
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Unless they can take it :-)
 
P.L.F.
thank for your effort for trying to answer my question.
Probably that arrangment was used in Milan in 1973 , but obviousy I'm not sure of this .
Or after 41 years my memory ...
Ciao
Marco
 
premiumplus said:
and eventually the Marshall Major, a 200 watt guitar amp came out. All tube, the Major was a beast...
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Yep, until a few years ago, I was running a Major. I used Genelex Gold Lion KT88s in it. No master volume, just turn the knob and instant earthquake
 
My guitars are a Gibson J200 with Guild strings, which I played on "The Old Castle," a Fender Jazz Bass, a Rickenbacker bass with Fender pick-ups and Les Paul electric, all these fitted with Rotosound wirewound strings. My amp is a Phase Linear of about 1,000 watts, 500 each stereo side, and I use a crossover system with Martin bass bins, Altec midrange horns and JB Lansing high-frequency dividers. I began a year's tuition on guitar when I was 12, but am self-taught on bass, which I started to play when I joined King Crimson. I played bass and sang on their first album, "In The Court of the Crimson King," and sang on their second LP, "In The Wake of Poseidon." We are shortly doing a song book containing our most-requested numbers, including "The Old Castle." We shall be playing at the MM Poll Winners concert at Kennington Oval on September 30. ~ GREG LAKE
 
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