Glastonbury

I see your point but I see it as a if your not in the circle your going to get shit sound. So get in the circle. I do think they should have made the circle bigger but that's not the sound systems fault.

I was a bit amazed how people were still expecting daft punk! It had wrote on the side of Arcadia "Fat Boy Slim" Chase & Status" in massive capitals letters projected on.

jacethebase wrote: I do think they should have made the circle bigger but that's not the sound systems fault.

Unfortunately the soundfield won't work if it is any bigger. There is talk of running 3 hexagons coming from each leg at some point in the future.

i would love to do boomtown, but unfortunately the various contractors i work for have nothing to do with it so i have no paid way in [and i never intend to buy a ticket for an event, just seems wrong to me!]!

does look good though, and sorry i didn't mean to slate you guys, all the potential is there, not your fault - could just use a better location with more volume and more space. And possibly give the crane op's a beer tap each, poor lads were up there for hours every night, probably with scorched back hair!

think the pyramid stage is beyond help, you maybe able to channel the sounds direction, but ultimately it will go somewhere, and that somewhere is straight down the valley towards the minority of moaning c##ts in Pylle [and beyond]. Might be no bleed onsite, but that noise is still traveling offsite regardless of how many £millions of tech you threw at it, short of having cancellation stacks out at the far reaches of the arena itself.

Personally i think the best year was with the FK1 point source, but that suffered heavily from noise complaints on the windless sunday when sound was traveling everywhere miles and the whole site was crippled.

http://www.funktion-one.com/dl/files/1602.pdf is a white paper written by Tony Andrews and John Newsham and contains lots of information gathered from their experiments with ambisonics, it's well worth a read alongside the Haas Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedence_effect.

They found that in circles with a diameter greater than 50m when ambisonic panning if you were close to one stack you would get the impression of the speakers switching on and off, not the sound moving around the soundfield.

There are other considerations when just playing stereo program music as well, as the distance between stacks increases the delay of the different speakers becomes greater and your brain begins to recognise the opposite stack as an echo, not a single sound. This same delay effects the amount of cancellation achieved outside the sound field. 

mk2_ginger_biscuit69 wrote: the minority of moaning c##ts in Pylle [and beyond].