Petition to GTAA RE: PA System at BDS

andrew said:
How do you know that older alumni are still showing up? We had a ton of season ticket loss during the clown era, and it's not unreasonable to think that a large portion of those were alumni who we now need to win back.
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I'm not the oldest on here, but my generation walked out on the clown. They're likely never coming back to watch games live. I'm one of the few that hung on. It's amazing what Batt has done with fundraising given the fact so many of us stopped going to the games.
 
I remember Professor Leach rhapsodizing about the engineering that went into the PA system at BDS , , , back when it was just Grant Field.
 
JTS said:
Hallelujah
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Of the 99 cover versions of this song the best lyric is always left off (for obvious reasons).
“I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah”
 
Nehru Jacket said:
Of the 99 cover versions of this song the best lyric is always left off (for obvious reasons).
“I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah”
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Sounds more like a Bob Seger lyric tbh
 
1982Jacket said:
I remember Professor Leach rhapsodizing about the engineering that went into the PA system at BDS , , , back when it was just Grant Field.
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i don't remember when the PA system was installed but like many others , i built those Leach speakers for my senior project,,,
I remember Professor Leach well.
I wonder if students still have to do senior projects?
 
BuzzinWreck78 said:
i don't remember when the PA system was installed but like many others , i built those Leach speakers for my senior project,,,
I remember Professor Leach well.
I wonder if students still have to do senior projects?
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Yep. Leach speakers and talking alarm clocks were the thing in my day.

But like the doomass that I was, instead I wrote a computer program in some now-long-dead language for some state-of-the-art-at-the-time computers for one of the profs to use in his control theory classes to demonstrate öööö like bode plots, eigenvalues, poles and zeroes, and a bunch of other öööö I can't even remember anymore. Missed two football games working on that öööö (we went 1-10 that year, so I really didn't miss a damn thing). The professor was a good guy, and he told me to register for "special topics" the next quarter and he would give me three hours of A credit for all the work I already did. :bigthumbup:

Fun times at Ma Tech. She's a bitch. Or at least she used to be.
 
BuzzinWreck78 said:
i don't remember when the PA system was installed but like many others , i built those Leach speakers for my senior project,,,
I remember Professor Leach well.
I wonder if students still have to do senior projects?
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The PA/sound in the TiT were managed by Physics prof Dr Patronis, who was the sound god in Physics Dept. Before/during games, he would walk around with his scruffy beard, flannel shirt, big glasses and huge set of keys and some tools clipped to his belt and go in and out of the sound room to make adjustments or check öööö out. Not sure if he was involved in the BDS sound.

Leach speakers were an EE project, Patronis was Physics. I have a set of Leach speakers. I tried to refurb them about 5 years ago and the speakers in the design I built (in 90) were no longer available. They have a revised list of components available to use a new combination of speakers to accommodate the changes. Not sure if Dr Leach authored those changes. The same electronics shop along 85 OTP was still the ones to provide the components list. They got a decent amount of biz from Tech folk for the various EE projects (speakers, amplifier, equalizer). These all focused on the electronic networks that separate frequencies.

The Leach Speaker, in particular, attempted to re-create sound most authentically by giving a response that was most flat in terms frequency power distribution. All crossovers matched the RMS values of the 3 actual speakers. Most modern speakers don't have a cavity that opens to the room and pushes air the way the Leach speakers do, they use closed contained cabinets iirc.

Still love the sound of my Leaches!

Csb - one of my friends ended up getting a job with Bose after graduating PHYS, he even has his own speakers out there now.
 
Another Leach speaker final project here. I revised my pair to use 8" woofers, which required modifying the cabinet size and redesigning the crossovers. They looked like ass because I had to cut the MDF with a handheld circular saw (no clamps or sawhorses), but they sounded great. I gave them to my little brother for his apartment at VT. A friend and I built two more sets after we graduated with much better tools. I kept them for 20+ years before finally giving them an unceremonious funeral.
 
I don't mind the music, etc. but last week, the feedback was awful. It's like someone had a mic next to the speaker. You couldn't hear the music, etc. and they couldn't get it right 100% of the time. You would think at GT, they'd have the acoustics/sound locked in.
 
JJacket said:
I have some of the best seats in the place. Great view of game and student shenanigans. The lower west is ööööty.

213 R1

Only better would be 214, 215, 216, 217 R1
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Artificial turf still looks like öööö.
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210 is the best section. Shade early in the summer, better angle on the stadium, near student, goal line view, can see jumbotron.
 
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