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About this stereo business, let me add my thoughts: in September of 1990, I saw The Grateful Dead for the very first time. I was basically on the far right hand side of the stage (from the audience's perspective), not on the floor, but in the seating section that was to the side of the stage, you could have ostensibly drawn a straight line from where Garcia, Weir, etc the area where I was sitting. During the percussion that Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann always did during the second set, I could most distinctly hear the quadrophonic panning effects that were being used. When stuff was coming out of the rear speakers only, it was easy enough to tell. When I saw Pink Floyd in 94, I was on the far left hand of the audience, quite a distance from the stage, and pretty close to one of the PA stacks. Again I could distinctly hear things coming from behind me. For instance, the voice at the beginning of Great Gig In The Sky that says "I'm not afraid of dying, anytime will do", or the drone at the beginning of Sorrow. Mind you, these examples aren't specifically about stereo, they're about quad (or whatever you want to call what Pink Floyd was using, it seemed like they had five PA stacks, two on other side of the stage, two on either side of what I guess would have been aprox. the 50 yard line on a football field, and one in the rear of the audience). But I think these demonstrate that panning can be used in stadium and arena environments. Mind you, I don't know if everyone else in the audience would have been able to notice these effects. Maybe I just lucked out in both instances and just happened to be in one of the "sweet spots" in the room. ===== May you never thirst! The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris "What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James Earl Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com