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Originally posted by TONY.A.S.S. TONY.A.S.S. wrote:

Originally posted by Nachural Nachural wrote:

Does anyone remember the Muscle Music PA rig?

Operated by Mark Hardy and Alan Wick who later sold everything and formed Turbosound Sales. They used to use our horns which we built into Flight Cases. Didn't they start out as the Jam's PA people.
The worked with a lot of bands in that era - I think Will Norton (Big Will) used to work for them at the time. They had a nice 3 way floor monitor 15in/10in/horn IIRC - one of your builds Tony?
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Originally posted by Nachural Nachural wrote:

Does anyone remember the Muscle Music PA rig?

Operated by Mark Hardy and Alan Wick who later sold everything and formed Turbosound Sales. They used to use our horns which we built into Flight Cases. Didn't they start out as the Jam's PA people.
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Does anyone remember the Muscle Music PA rig?
it's all just cardboard and magnets really
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Originally posted by djeddie djeddie wrote:

Originally posted by dylan-penguinmedia dylan-penguinmedia wrote:

Incidentally I used to work for Marquee Audio doing installs. Useless fact!


Hopefully not the install at T** G****h**** in Bristol though... 'cause after Marquee had left I went through it and put all the Martin EM25's in the same phase... and connected the 1210 ground leads to the mixer... and turned the Speakon connectors in one of the bins so it was latched and working... etc etc, ad lib to fade!


Never done a job in Bristol so not me sir!
First fixed the Swindon Walkabout tho - that's about as close to Brizzle as I got!
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Thanks to the OP for the thread, just spent a happy 2 hours reading about Pink Floyds live shows from a link on that page.
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Originally posted by Robbo Robbo wrote:

The Showco system was a bit of a joke in the trade in those days as it had no real bottom end at all, due to the fact that they were using K130 guitar speakers in all of their bass bins hence no real bass---
 

That thought had occurred to me also.

Presumably they were trying to take advantage of the light cone and higher mid band efficiency of the K130 over the K140 but as John rightly says their LF extension was somewhat limited when compared to the K140.

Seemed a strange choice in that application.
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Originally posted by dylan-penguinmedia dylan-penguinmedia wrote:

Incidentally I used to work for Marquee Audio doing installs. Useless fact!


Hopefully not the install at T** G****h**** in Bristol though... 'cause after Marquee had left I went through it and put all the Martin EM25's in the same phase... and connected the 1210 ground leads to the mixer... and turned the Speakon connectors in one of the bins so it was latched and working... etc etc, ad lib to fade!
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Originally posted by shagnasty shagnasty wrote:

What made me think Entec had a lot to do with The Who?
 
I was surprised that ML Exec were a Who Thing, as I was sure Entec, Marquee Audio etc were the boys...
 
 


Dick Hayes (Mr Entec) was FOH for The Who, where as the pa and equipment the band owned was hired out to others under the ML Exec company name.

Not sure where the Marquee audio lot are linked
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You Mr TA-500/718, LS-9 & a KT Sq-One graph???
 
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Originally posted by shagnasty shagnasty wrote:


What made me think Entec had a lot to do with The Who?
 
I was surprised that ML Exec were a Who Thing, as I was sure Entec, Marquee Audio etc were the boys...
 
 


Love threads like this :)

Incidentally I used to work for Marquee Audio doing installs. Useless fact!
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What made me think Entec had a lot to do with The Who?
 
I was surprised that ML Exec were a Who Thing, as I was sure Entec, Marquee Audio etc were the boys...
 
 
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It's strange how PA systems have developed, in as much as there must be a ton of people who don't get excited looking at a Line Array as much as they do an old system of the seventies, where everything seemed to be exciting, and there's no proof that in spite of the so called improvements, that people enjoy the music anymore now than they did then, in fact there's probably more bad press about Line Array than there ever was about some of the old systems.
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