Woodstock Bins

Woodstock festival....

Taken form a wikipedia page.

Sound for the concert was engineered by Bill Hanley, whose innovations in the sound industry have earned him the prestigious Parnelli Award.^[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."^{[citation needed]} 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 woofers carried four 15-inch JBL LANSING D140 loudspeakers. The tweeters consisted of 4x2-Cell & 2x10-Cell Altec Horns. Behind the stage were three transformers providing 2,000 amps of power.^[14] For many years this system was collectively referred to as the Woodstock Bins.

Quite impressive size rig for 1969.Anyone any more info??

Any idea of what amplification he used?

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.


Edited by jazomir - 10 December 2008 at 11:00am

pretty curious about woodstock bin...could post the plans please?

Well,most of the horndesigns are born in the 1920-30.Two items are changed ,speaker &amp-power,calculations for a horn will always be the same.

corneel wrote: 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

Can't you make four single 15" cabinets from this design?