Re: quad looping

[L Tremblay <ltct@concentric.net> (by way of Kim Flint)]

I had a Technics quadraphonic stereo system in the '70s. It was
great when stations broadcast in quad, but it difficult and expensive
to find quad records. :(

- Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Miranda V. <gnominus@earthling.net>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 12:15 AM
Subject: RE: quad looping


>A friend of mine told me of a quadraphonic radio station here in 
>California
>in the early Seventies, when quadraphonic records started to come out.  He
>told me they put together two different transmitters, each in stereo, of
>course, tuned to the same frequency, and your radio was supposed to mix 
>and
>match, and you could hear the whole thing in your living room.
>
>Come to think of it, wouldn't it be great that you could have a worldwide
>concert where the bands are playing somewhere and you could set yourself 
>up
>at home and listen in surround sound to the whole thing, as though you 
>were
>sitting there?  It would also help if you had one of those 64-inch
>flat-screen digital TVs.  What about doing that in a movie theater?  Movie
>theathers all over the world with live music from somewhere...  OK, what
>about loopers playing the music?  Wouldn't that be cool?
>
>  | -----Original Message-----
>  | From: Tim Nelson [mailto:tcn62@ici.net]
>  | Sent: Monday 01 November 1999 6:12 PM
>  | To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>  | Subject: Re: quad looping
>  |
>  |
>  | At 09:50 AM 11/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>  | (What do you call a
>  | >quad pan-pot, anyhow?)
>  |
>  | Back in 1969, The Pink Floyd were calling their surround-sound setup
the
>  | Azimuth Co-Ordinator System, although theirs was hexaphonic rather 
>than
>  | quad. (They had used a quad system as early as '67, at the
>  | infamous Games
>  | for May show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, but the rear speakers
>  | were stolen
>  | by the audience!) A joystick could send a sound source (which was
>  | frequently tape loops, to bring this on-topic!) panning around the
hall.
>  | The loop most often remembered (a wonder in itself) was the sound of
>  | footsteps walking completely around the crowd.
>  |
>  | But if you called yours a quad pan pot, we'd know what you were
>  | talking about!
>  |
>  | Tim
>  |
>  |
>
>