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  The Wall of SOUND
The result is a confusing sound which causes the musicians and sound system operators to turn up the level in an effort to overcome this muddle of sound by the limiting effect of the ear.
The original sound is partly absorbed by the audience and the first reflection from the real wall is directed down into the audience for further absorption.
But since it was our desire to exclude the instrumental sound from the vocal system we had a problem which could not be solved by a directional microphone because the instrument loudspeakers are located behind the vocalists on axis with the desired pickup.
dozin.com /wallofsound   (2661 words)

  
  Wall of Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wall of Sound may be compared with “the standard pop mix of foregrounded solo vocal and balanced, blended backing”.
The term "wall of sound" was also frequently used to describe the improvising style of tenor sax player John Coltrane, particularly his way of running through scales rapid fire -- the individual notes blurring into a larger pattern.
Also, the sound system the Grateful Dead used while touring was called the Wall of Sound, which included 89 300-watt solid-state and three 350-watt vacuum-tube amplifiers generating a total of 26,400 watts RMS of audio power.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wall_of_Sound   (684 words)

  
 Wall of Sound
The ultimate result of years of research and experimentation was the Wall of Sound, conceived and built in collaboration with Owsley Stanley, Ron Wickersham, Dan Healy, Bob Matthews and others in the Dead's circle of technical wizards.
The Wall was a wonder to behold, rising up like the skyline of a small city with its towering stacks of speakers (641 in all) and amplifiers (putting out more than 26,000 watts) and it was even more of a joy to hear.
Alas, the Wall would also prove to be both physically and financially cumbersome, requiring two (and sometimes three) separate crews to set up the stage, and five trucks to carry 72 tons of equipment.
www.nii.net /~obie1/deadcd/wall_of_sound.htm   (2262 words)

  
 Wall of Sound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The “Wall of Sound” device was created out of our dissatisfaction with current visual stimuli in club/musical environments where people are dancing and listening to music.
The “Wall of Sound” is designed to replace or be a part of a wall or windowpane.
These devices are intended to process the sound of the music and react or pulse accordingly based upon the magnitude and frequency of the sound.
www.oleblue.com /wall.htm   (515 words)

  
 Wall of Sound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
And the sound system which they have devised and will utilize tomorrow night for "The Sound Check" at the Cow Palace is anything but an ordinary sound system.
Each performance is not only a music performance but a sound performance." Tomorrow night's show, which begins at 8, is open to the public and features only the Dead, will employ the system's "sports arena configuration" (as distinct from that which would be used at the Berkeley Community Theater or Kezar Stadium).
To fully exploit this situation, the instruments are rigged so that each member of the band has total control over his or her volume.
www.agitators.com /gd/wallofsound.html   (623 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/wallofsoundfestival
ABOUT WOSF06 Wall Of Sound Festival is a music and arts gathering dedicated to the expression of independence and creative quality that can be found in pop music.
Wall Of Sound Festival represents the diversity in a genuine art form and is best described as a pop-art experience and cultural affair!
Adding on to the confusion will be the Wall of Sound Festival in Forth Worth.The festival is all ages and better yet, it provides free parking.
www.myspace.com /wallofsoundfestival   (920 words)

  
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Unique among the many great photos of the Dead, this archival print of the "Grateful Dead and the Wall of Sound" was shot at P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, British Columbia on May 17th, 1974.
The Wall of Sound was comprised of 586 JBL speakers and 54 Electrovoice tweeters powered by 48 MacIntosh 2300 Amps (48 X 600 = 28,800 Watts of continuous (RMS) power.
Taken during the sound check, the extreme clarity of this documentary shot is attributed to the front lighting of the house lights creating a daylight appearance.
www.wallofsound.ws /pages/1/page1.html?refresh=1113150618921   (301 words)

  
 Wall of sound - smh.com.au
They can be mounted horizontally or vertically and, once inside a solid or partition wall, all that is visible is the grille, which can be painted the same colour as the wall.
These high-performance US in-wall speakers are so popular among home-theatre buyers they are sold singly rather than in pairs, because so many buyers want odd numbers of them.
Speakers come in cabinets so that behind the cones that move back and forth to create sound energy there is a chamber with a volume of air that exactly matches their requirements.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/19/1069027172982.html   (1291 words)

  
 WALL OF SOUND - THEY LOVE US! | News | NME.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Clinic, Ten Benson and Appliance among the acts line up for new Wall Of Sound label...
Wall Of Sound, the label that is home to dance acts such as Les Rythmes Digitales, THE WISEGUYS and PROPELLERHEADS, is to launch a new imprint next month focusing on more leftfield acts than normally associated with the parent label's sound.
A spokesperson for We Love You told nme.com:"It will be used to launch acts that people won't normally associate with Wall Of Sound.
www.nme.com /news/wall-of-sound/3113   (252 words)

  
 Salon Brilliant Careers | Phil Spector
Within a mere three years, he had produced more than 20 hit singles and given birth to a style bombastically christened "the Wall of Sound." The Jewish kid whose first love was jazz, this reedy little dynamo from the Bronx, had created a noise that was very, very big.
The Wall of Sound was a musical mind-slam; it overloaded the auditory nerves with such sweepingly complex arrangements and such a barrage of instruments that it rendered the individual parts of the whole unrecognizable.
The Wall was the sound of young love distilled into the three-minute opus -- beautiful and horrible and sweet and suffocating.
www.salon.com /bc/1998/11/cov_10bc.html   (692 words)

  
 CD Baby: MENISKUS: The Wall of Sound
"Wall of Sound," is an appropriate moniker for the debut LP from this louder-than-life trio.
Wall of Sound is heavy on instrumentals - but the instrumentals rock so hard, that you just don't care.
I listen to wall of sound every singly day since i got it.
cdbaby.com /cd/meniskus   (423 words)

  
 Wall of sound > DEMETER > Elements rackables
Electric Guitar (clean DI sound): The Tube Direct provides a clear, warm sound that retains all of the guitar's natural brilliance and harmonics for creating a viable (many feel the only) direct electric guitar sound with or without additional signal processing.
It is designed to give the recording studio the unsurpassed sound of tube amplification in a package that is convenient to operate and easy to interface with modern consoles and tape recorders.
The unit has the same unsurpassed sound as the original but with added features such as a two stage low cut, continuously variable gain, greater gain range (30 to 65dB), LED VU meters, new Jensen microphone transformers and active balanced outputs.
www.wallofsound.fr /demeter/24_elements-rackables.html   (1634 words)

  
 Wall Of Sound Festival 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It sounds like PJ Harvey decided to use a tamed down Sonic Youth to be her backing band.
Map’s infectious combination of sounds give tribute to late-80s Brit pop and mid-60s American jangle rock while flaunting finely crafted melodies and guitar hooks that are as subtle as they are substantive.
Dallas Observer's Zac Crain noted that the Sound of Splitting Atoms "grabs you in a hug from the first few notes knocks you to the floor, and is nice enough to help you after." Also including Radiant* has "soul to spare and emotion you can't deny".
wallofsoundfestival.com /artists.htm   (6115 words)

  
 The Spector Wall Of Sound - Phil Spector
Perhaps the only notable popular music genre to have originated with, solely maintained by, and finally terminated at the whim of one individual, the Spector Sound (or "wall of sound," the name by which it was more widely known) referred to the productions of Phil Spector.
However, Spector refused to be bound by the normal conventions of record making, often employing musicians on a per session basis to match the sounds he had within his head.
By early 1963 it was evident that Spector had found the system he wanted for making truly creative recordings which, due to their intelligent lyrics and preponderance of musical hooks, also possessed huge sales potential.
www.jeffosretromusic.com /spector.html   (1045 words)

  
 Wall of Sound - Events
The sound of which is a progression of the music from the last few years as well as a new step in creating a cohesive album of diverse songs.
Fueled by real-time modular synthesis, improvisation, emotion and sound, Son of Rose purses the evident and unlimited nature of sound by applying numerically specific frequencies to meticulously sculpted sound archives.
Wall of Sound presents a Sublime Frequencies debut screening.
wosound.com /events.php?PHPSESSID=65c015621daa6bc1a30ad1c33e7a4547   (2104 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - Wall Of Sound, CDs, Records, DJ Equipment items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Wall Of Sound: Love And Good Times At The Red Bull Mans
Wall Of Sound: The First XI (11) *Trip-Hop* *Big-Beat*
Wall Of Sound - The Second XI (11) *Trip-Hop**Big
search.ebay.co.uk /Wall-Of-Sound_W0QQfclZ4QQfnuZ1   (325 words)

  
 M&K Sound In-Wall Speakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
IN-WALL speakers are designed for people who either don't want to see the speaker(s) in the room or in some cases don't have enough space to place speakers.
The speakers may be mounted in the wall or the ceiling.
The speakers are so well constructed of heavy gauge steel that they essentially reinforce the wall, and the sound has received accolades the world over.
www.mksound.com /inwall.html   (1055 words)

  
 Sound Ideas Percussion Wall Drum & Percussion Loops
Percussion Wall is the first production elements CD to feature a comprehensive selection of Afro, Techno, and Ritual rhythms as drum and percussion loops.
Offering an almost infinite variety of possibilities, Percussion Wall was inspired by African tribal music and the creativity of some of the worlds best BeBop drummers.
Percussion Wall - an astonishing collection of more than 500 specially prepared loops - all designed to expand the range of your creative potential.
www.sound-ideas.com /pw.html   (183 words)

  
 CrabAppleLane Blog: Wall of Sound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
I was only eight when Spector was in the middle of producing the music and sounds he is primarily known for, so my interest in his recordings came several years later, before his late- and post-Beatles work began.
Clearly, Spector's genius was in the use of layered sounds (guitars, pianos, saxophones) and various forms of percussion (sleighbells, castanets, chimes, etc.) that were then mixed together with an echo chamber that made the sound ring.
The wall of sound has undoubtedly been a huge influence on the recording industry though.....
www.crabapplelane.net /roblog/archives/2006/06/09/wall_of_sound_1.php   (1328 words)

  
 Review From The Wall Of Sound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Let's face it, Stroke 9 has the look, and they certainly have the sound: a nicely textured cross between the hazy pop of Santa Barbara's Toad the Wet Sprocket and the more jaunty and energetic rock of SF's Third Eye Blind.
The first single, "Little Black Backpack," combines the band's squeaky-clean sound with a tale of youthful anger and jealousy to produce a surefire hit, although maybe not a huge one.
Lyrically, the band sometimes lets wordy cleverness get the best of them ("Your diversion's my digression," sings Esterkyn in "Tear Me in Two"), but for the most part, this is nice, easygoing stuff — good, but not great, and probably destined for the big time.
www.megsplace.com /et/stroke9/articles/wallofsound.html   (300 words)

  
 Wall of Sound (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The music production technique first used by Phil Spector which used many instruments to create the effect of a "Wall of Sound".
The Grateful Dead's sound amplification and speaker system used until the mid-1970s, as well as the era in which that sound system was used.
The effect was a form of 'cut up' whereby each performance they used different samples/sounds etc. Wall of Sound featured on one of their albums 'Third Annual Report' and is a Live regular to this day.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wall_of_Sound_(disambiguation)   (210 words)

  
 Home Theater: Wall-to-Wall Sound
So, for this review, I made some portable walls in which to test eight different in-wall loudspeakers, also known as architectural speakers, priced between $435 and $600 per pair.
I constructed each wall like a standard interior residential wall, with 0.5-inch drywall on two-by-four studs with 16-inch on-center spacing and R-30 insulation inside.
Each wall is 32 inches wide and 48 inches tall, big enough to simulate a real wall's many characteristics and portable enough that I could get them from the workshop to my listening room without a forklift.
www.hometheatermag.com /inwallspeakers/1004inwall   (659 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/wallofsoundrecords   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
wall of sound records is in your extended network
Wall of Sound specializes in the best new and used CDs and LPs.
Wall of Sound Records is a superior retail music outlet located in Seattle.
www.myspace.com /wallofsoundrecords   (754 words)

  
 Wall of Sound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Wall Of Sound was formed in the early '90s by Soul Trader founder Marc Lessner and all round madman Mark Jones.
The effect is the warm bliss of a perfect summer afternoon.
London punk-house pioneers Dirty Beatniks blend sleazy Black Grape-ish vocals with chemical Underworld beats for their explosive house amalgams on Wall Of Sound.
www.epitonic.com /labels/wallofsound.html   (234 words)

  
 A wall of sound
Sound Barrier, by Maia Urstad, is a sound installation of some 130 CD-and cassette radios assembled as a wall.
They remind us of historical remains of buildings --except that the stones are made of electronics-- and reflect issues related to the technical development and our culture of consumption.
The CD players in the wall are playback units for a composition of electronically treated sounds borrowed from radio waves, Morse code, FM- and satellite radio etc. Sound signals that also will be obsolete and forgotten sooner than we might expect.
www.we-make-money-not-art.com /archives/003831.php   (201 words)

  
 Boyz II Men- Wall of Sound Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Now, while it may seem as though 'N Sync is the world's biggest band since, say, The Beatles (or at least the Backstreet Boys), the group still hasn't topped the Boyz, whose first two albums went a combined 21 times platinum, compared to 19 for 'N Sync.
And more significantly, the members of BIIM have always shown themselves to be the superior singers, master harmony vocalists whose a cappella abilities alone make 'N Sync sound downright Mickey Mouse-ish.
On several other tracks, the Boyz don't sound so much like 'N Sync as a particularly saucy, but production-driven, girl group.
www.angelfire.com /music2/jayjayzboyz/WallofSound(nmsw).html   (411 words)

  
 New Inventory Sales - Wall Sound and Lighting - Ottawa - Canada
New Inventory Sales - Wall Sound and Lighting - Ottawa - Canada
At Wall Sound and Lighting, we sell quality audio and lighting equipment from the following manufacturers and more.
Click on logos to check out the companies web sites for product information then contact us for current pricing.
www.wallsound-lighting.com /sales_new.html   (84 words)

  
 Wall of Sound - Seattle, WA, 98122-2028 - Citysearch
Wall of Sound - Seattle, WA, 98122-2028 - Citysearch
Wall Of Sound is the only place in Seattle I am able to find certain genres of music that I need.
I want to consider it a specialty music store, but then I find that if the music is good, often times they are likely to carry slightly more mainstream c.d.s.
www.citysearch.com /profile/10796470   (183 words)

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