Half Scale Wall of Sound Walkthrough

Published 2023-01-29
Take a 30 minute tour of the half scale Wall of Sound. I try and go into a little more detail of the system and how it functions.

All Comments (19)
  • @Think_Up
    That's incredible! Imagine having to continually tear that down and set it back up like the crew used to do. Amazing.
  • @user-zb8yh7yr9e
    Brilliant! Back when the actual Wall existed and was touring, I attended a Dead concert, on the east coast, and heard the thing. Clean, clear, resounding bass. And it was huge! I wish I could hear your creation. And, thank you for sharing this!
  • As a Front of House engineer and a Grateful Dead fan(early 70s/wall of sound era being some of my favorite) this is so interesting to me. Was curious what the signal chain was on your replica. the use of the m32 as a way to route signal to cross overs/amplifiers via Aux outs makes the most sense. I’d love to see what your processing on the console looks like in another video. Im sure you could make that rig sound great with all the compression, eq, gating, fx, ect capabilities on the inputs/outputs a modern digital mixer features. In fact you could probably make it sound much better than the original lol
  • @BluebirdBridge
    You are doing excellent work! I would love to hear your creation. My wife and I heard the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound a few times. At Watkins Glen we were so far from the stage we did not get the full effect but the next year at the Philadelphia Civic Center we heard it in a relatively small hall. The sound was close to perfect. Thee was very close to zero distortion. It was so far ahead of it's time that no one I knew believed my ravings about it. The Dead pioneered concert sound. At that time in 1974-75 they were the best. You felt the music shake the floor but you did not leave with your ears ringing like from other shows of that era. There was nothing like a Grateful Dead Concert!
  • @kingcrowing
    This is simply incredible, I really hope I get to see this in person... and of course the full scale WoS when that comes to fruition!
  • @djstay
    This is amazing to see would love to see this in action
  • @csj9619
    I've seen some pretty big audio systems, but holy cow that's alot of speakers! I'm wondering why they've chosen small diameter drivers over larger-coned drivers (especially for the bass rig). I was laughing until you mentioned those 8" drivers were Beyma. Very impressive array, thanks for sharing. It's fun just looking at it, even though hearing this monster would be the cat's pajamas.
  • @rollerdragon
    thanks for this... the test videos sounded amazing... i want to play on this system!! gabriel g... manchester ct!!
  • @ivansbacon
    Awesome. Thank you. Love the Zohm's . Nice Ned reference. Pet Peeve - video should be shot in landscape orientation, you have a gimbal.
  • where the microphone pad in front of the mic step on and on step off and it is off.
  • @FOHGeek
    It looks like a pipe organ made of speakers.
  • an average concert at your local modern arena sounds infinately better than the wall of sound ever did- it was highly directional.
  • Build neo-Greek stone amphitheaters into vallies aligned with moderate climates in the new climate paradigm.
  • I'm not watching 30 minutes of vertical video. Goodness. How do you watch any OTHER TV show or movie? This isn't a silly clip, bro. It's 30 minutes long. Turn you dang phone.