Fonte: ProSound News
The Midas XL3 Quad Board being prepped for Pink Floyd's 1994 Division Bell show at the
Pasadena Rose Bowl by Dave Lohr, who mixed quad effects from the board.
London (November, 2010)--The unique, hand-built quadraphonic mixing consoles used on two Pink Floyd world tours will be auctioned in December.
The desks, used on the Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell tours, will hit the block at Bonhams on December 15, with a percentage of the proceeds going to concert industry charity Stage Hand, the new name for the PSA Welfare & Benevolent Fund. The consoles are being sold by their owner, Britannia Row Productions (BRP), the sound company originally formed and owned by Pink Floyd, which has been independent for the last 26 years.
Every Pink Floyd tour since the late 1960s featured quadraphonic sound among the many live sound and lighting effects pioneered by the band.
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Brit Row's Mike Lowe with the Midas
Sound effects including helicopters, the famous chiming clocks and gongs of Dark Side Of The Moon and many more, were whirled around massive arenas and stadiums using banks of loudspeakers positioned in an approximate diamond layout, with one stack at the rear facing the stage, the two side stacks to either side on a line slightly behind the mixing desk position, with the main left-and-right PA handling the front ‘point’ of the diamond. The effects were sent to the speakers using one of the special hand-built quadraphonic (‘quad’) mixing desks.
Only six generations of quad mixing desks or external quad panning devices were made during the band’s performing history between 1969 and 1994, each using the best audio technology available at the time.
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