On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sampo Savolainen wrote: >> Quoting Joe Hartley <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> Every string on it's separate channel? Now _that_ is rock'n'roll. >> >> ;) > Just so's ya know: The Casio MIDI guitar (I owned a couple of MG 510s) > could be set up to send over a separate channel per string. It was great > fun. > > That was in the late 80s, IIRC. There is nothing new under the sun. :) >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound_(Grateful_Dead): "The Wall of Sound consisted of eighty-nine 300-watt solid state and three 350-watt vacuum tube amplifiers, driving the speakers with a total of 26,400 watts RMS ... Phil Lesh's bass guitar was piped through a quadraphonic encoder that sent a separate signal from each of the four strings to its own channel and set of speakers." This was in '73-74. Rock and roll indeed 8-) Lee _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
