2 Aug
2008
2 Aug
'08
9:36 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Sampo Savolainen wrote:
"The Wall of Sound consisted of eighty-nine 300-watt solid state and
three 350-watt
vacuum tube amplifiers, driving the speakers with a total of 26,400
watts RMS ... Phil
Lesh's bass guitar was piped through a quadraphonic encoder that sent
a separate
signal from each of the four strings to its own channel and set of speakers."
This was in '73-74. Rock and roll indeed 8-)
Lee
Quoting Joe Hartley <jh(a)brainiac.com>om>:
Every string on it's separate channel? Now _that_ is rock'n'roll.
;)
Just so's ya know: The Casio MIDI guitar (I owned a couple of MG 510s)
could be set up to send over a separate channel per string. It was great
fun.
That was in the late 80s, IIRC. There is nothing new under the sun. :)