Hiring early '70s cabs for photoshoot

chvintage wrote:   I have recreated the Pompeii floyd speaker system too

Was looking at the video only the other day Chris...what are the sectorial multi-cell horns used there? Vitavox? Altec? You get a glimpse of the horns drivers hanging out the back of the cabinets on the rear shots on the video, JBL? Altec? I assume the bass drivers in the cabinets would also be something much more substanial than the usual WEM fitment....Celestion Powercel maybe?

The WEM system was clearly inadequate for Pink Floyd's needs,as just a year or so later they were using a huge Martin system shown below based around the 215mk1.

This is 1973.




Edited by jbl_man - 13 February 2019 at 11:04am

Pinyorouk wrote: As there is so much knowledge from the 70's and 80's PA systems would anyone know who supplied the PA system for the Bob Marley independance concert in Zimbabwe 1980.I attended the show as a child and was amazed by the sound quality and power. Had never felt so much bass in my life. Would be interesting knowing what it comprised of. I believe the PA system was from the UK.

I don't have a definite answer, but Marley was a long-term client of TFA Electrosound. They had a large system based in the UK and would likely have been the first choice when that show was arranged at short notice.




Edited by madboffin - 13 February 2019 at 3:42pm

Yes Vitavox GP1 drivers were fitted on the very first Festival Stacks but were changed to RCF horns and drivers in the later ones.
I think I mentioned above that I owned two pairs of Festival stacks back in the day and they were mismatched--we updated HF drivers and horns etc when refurbing the earlier pair at one point due to original cloth with lined pattern on it going all baggy and horrible and fitted the newer cloth that was almost black with sparkly bits in it. At the same time we changed all 10" 12" and 15" cone drivers to JBL and Gauss in all four stacks so were then completely matched and also sounded so much better than the original Celestion cones.

Yes--GP1 drivers, can tell from the size more than anything as they were very small compared to the later and much larger S3 unit.
The twin sectoral cabinets with gold coloured horns are the early Festival Stack HF cabinets and having to watch that video has just reminded me of how boring I found Pink Floyd back then and still to this day---I have probably just offended half the forum members with that but sorry guys.

Im pretty sure the 2 larger wem cabs behind gilmour are the 1x18s

the two larger cabs per side next to each set of WEM Starfinder 4 x 12s are ported infinite baffle 2 x15s