Woodstock Bins
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Topic: Woodstock Bins
Posted By: Flano
Subject: Woodstock Bins
Date Posted: 17 November 2008 at 8:00pm
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Woodstock festival.... Taken form a wikipedia page. Sound for the concert was engineered by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hanley - Bill Hanley , whose innovations in the sound industry have earned him the prestigious Parnelli Award. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_Festival#cite_note-12 - [13] "It worked very well," he says of the event. "I built special speaker columns on the hills and had 16 loudspeaker arrays in a square platform going up to the hill on 70-foot [21 meter] towers. We set it up for 150,000 to 200,000 people. Of course, 500,000 showed up."[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed - citation needed ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altec_Lansing - ALTEC designed 4 – 15 marine ply cabinets that weighed in at half a ton a piece, stood 6 feet straight up, almost 4 feet deep & 3 feet wide. Each of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woofer - woofers carried four 15-inch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBL - JBL LANSING D140 loudspeakers. The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweeter - tweeters consisted of 4x2-Cell & 2x10-Cell Altec Horns. Behind the stage were three transformers providing 2,000 amps of power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_Festival#cite_note-13 - [14] For many years this system was collectively referred to as the Woodstock Bins. Quite impressive size rig for 1969.Anyone any more info?? |
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Posted By: Deadbeat
Date Posted: 17 November 2008 at 8:13pm
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Bill Hanley's site has some info. Apparently these were used in South Africa later by some sound company.
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Posted By: Sheggy
Date Posted: 17 November 2008 at 8:57pm
| Any idea of what amplification he used? |
Posted By: Flano
Date Posted: 17 November 2008 at 9:03pm
| All valve amplification apparently..... |
Posted By: jazomir
Date Posted: 10 December 2008 at 10:18am
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I always thought that Cerwin Vega had supplied the sound at Woodstock - just shows, you're never too old to learn something new! Another 'What would you do..." question. If Woodstock were happening today, and you were asked to provide the sound for 500,00 people, what system(s) would you provide on a 'money-no-object' basis using only off-the-shelf products. ------------- For sidefills, can we have two enormous things of a type that might be venerated as Gods by the inhabitants of Easter Island, capable of reaching volumes that would make Beelzebub soil his pants. |
Posted By: corneel
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 2:21pm
HI,first of all appoligys for my bad English
McIntosh MC 350 was the tube-ampli used in the days of Woodstock
Now i am tryin to construct thad famous "Woodstock bin"
wide 2360 mm
high 1000 mm
deep 1220 mm
hornlenght 920 mm
Drivers 4 x 15W700 18 sound
Band 38 hz to 500 hz
If sombody have tips or good ideas,i am here
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Posted By: bitzo
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 12:06pm
| pretty curious about woodstock bin...could post the plans please? |
Posted By: Robbo
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 4:21pm
| Why on earth do you want to build an awefull design of a 40 year old cabinet that will not go through a normal doorway and needs a forklift truck to move it about. |
Posted By: corneel
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 8:58pm
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Well,most of the horndesigns are born in the 1920-30.Two items are changed ,speaker &-power,calculations for a horn will always be the same.
For the plan,after the first bin is ready and checked
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Posted By: spanners
Date Posted: 12 August 2009 at 12:32pm
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''that will not go through a normal doorway and needs a forklift truck to move it about. ''
LOL
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Posted By: MusicXtra
Date Posted: 12 August 2009 at 1:12pm
Can't you make four single 15" cabinets from this design? |
corneel wrote:Posted By: ltaudio
Date Posted: 25 September 2009 at 8:34pm
| I second this I would love to produce a replica bin, I would love to have some in-depth details of the cab internals. |