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<blockquote data-quote="Art Welter" data-source="post: 218149" data-attributes="member: 52"><p>Paul,</p><p></p><p>Your pictures are from the early 1970s, not 1980s.</p><p></p><p>Once we had seen Woodstock 1969, the rock club/ballroom scene PA market changed from using stuff like the Shure Vocalmaster (introduced 1967, similar to the WEM columns) to massive horn systems pretty quickly. No way a Vocalmaster would keep up with 8x12" stacks.</p><p></p><p>In the mid 1970s in the Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota area alone there were at least a dozen local/regional bands with 16 channels or more running through the PA. Cascading as many 6 channel Tapco mixers as needed was common, but the higher paid bands had 16 channel boards. Using input "Y" cords to increase channel count was also common.</p><p>My custom made 1976 Straight Up Systems (Mark Wingo design) 18 channel stereo mix console had a 5 channel drum submix <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p><p></p><p>Since power was so expensive (one dollar a watt for "Flame Linear" was the best deal going, $5.71 per watt in today's money), large horn systems with upwards of 110dB 1w/1m became common, often using 16 ohm cones- two Crown DC300A could be pushing 16 drivers.</p><p></p><p>My bar/ballroom system used with the Rockinghorse band back then used four 2x15" "Cruncher" straight horns, 4 mid drivers on 30x60 Klipsch horns, and 4x1" JBL 2410 "Smith" high horns. The PA was four foot wide and deep and eight foot high- and we brought the whole pile in regardless of the venue size.</p><p>Before building that system, we borrowed or rented from other bands for the bigger shows and combined them, like the 1975 PA attached- I bought my first 22 channel snake the next year, standing in front of a PA like that was a hearing hazard..</p><p></p><p>Art</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Art Welter, post: 218149, member: 52"] Paul, Your pictures are from the early 1970s, not 1980s. Once we had seen Woodstock 1969, the rock club/ballroom scene PA market changed from using stuff like the Shure Vocalmaster (introduced 1967, similar to the WEM columns) to massive horn systems pretty quickly. No way a Vocalmaster would keep up with 8x12" stacks. In the mid 1970s in the Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota area alone there were at least a dozen local/regional bands with 16 channels or more running through the PA. Cascading as many 6 channel Tapco mixers as needed was common, but the higher paid bands had 16 channel boards. Using input "Y" cords to increase channel count was also common. My custom made 1976 Straight Up Systems (Mark Wingo design) 18 channel stereo mix console had a 5 channel drum submix :cool: Since power was so expensive (one dollar a watt for "Flame Linear" was the best deal going, $5.71 per watt in today's money), large horn systems with upwards of 110dB 1w/1m became common, often using 16 ohm cones- two Crown DC300A could be pushing 16 drivers. My bar/ballroom system used with the Rockinghorse band back then used four 2x15" "Cruncher" straight horns, 4 mid drivers on 30x60 Klipsch horns, and 4x1" JBL 2410 "Smith" high horns. The PA was four foot wide and deep and eight foot high- and we brought the whole pile in regardless of the venue size. Before building that system, we borrowed or rented from other bands for the bigger shows and combined them, like the 1975 PA attached- I bought my first 22 channel snake the next year, standing in front of a PA like that was a hearing hazard.. Art [/QUOTE]
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