[geoff]

On 24/07/2014 2:17 a.m., hank alrich wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

The Shure Vocalmaster used one of the first sound column speakers back in
the 1960s. It had four 8-inch speakers and two 10-inch speakers, all running
full range, all stacked on top of one another as a fake line radiator,
with some rear porting that additionally improved directionality. So the
radiation pattern top to bottom was narrowed down to something like 60 degrees
for the -3dB points at 1KC.

And the thing is, in spite of the comb filtering, it didn't sound bad at all
on vocals, which is really all it was intended for. Bands would run the
vocals through the PA, everything else would come directly from the backline,
and the PA spill would be sufficient that they could hear themselves on stage.

Willie Nelson made at least many hundreds of thousands of dollars with a
Vocalmaster for his PA and Paul English as "the rest of the band".



Reminds me of a jo0ke - Willie Nelson saying how it was unfair to give
Lance Armstrong a hard time for winning 7 big races while on drug.
"Hell, when I was on drugs I couldn't even FIND my bike !".

geoff