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Article: ACOUSTICS: A NEW APPROACH TO AMPLIFYING LIVE MUSIC AIMS TO CUT DISTORTION AND REVERBERATION
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 20, 2003
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Sound engineers at Bose Corp. in Framingham call it "The Problem,"
and they trace it back to the Beatles concert in Shea Stadium in 1965
and the Woodstock music festival in 1969.
The Beatles performance is recalled most vividly as a cultural
milestone, with young American girls screaming and swooning over the
British rockers, and a record-breaking crowd of 55,000 ushering in a
new era of live music in giant venues. But for musicians and sound
technicians, it is remembered chiefly as an acoustical fiasco. The
amplifying equipment used since early in the century to project sound
to ever larger audiences proved inadequate for the New York stadium,
with neither the audience nor the musicians ...