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		bongodongobob on May 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019) Another cool thing you can do with line arrays is beam steering, you can direct the sound to a certain extent. There are tradeoffs, but I always thought that was pretty damn magical.

bombcar on May 7, 2024 [–]

Isn’t the audio setup in that LED ball in Vegas a bunch of beam steering?

_kb on May 7, 2024 | [–]

Yep. They’re running by a rather sizeable Holoplot [1] rig. Expands the concept of a line array to planar array along with a good helping of DSP.

[1]:https://holoplot.com/

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