Editing Woodstock (section)

===Sound===
[[File:Woodstock Music and Art Fair.jpg|thumb|Joe Cocker performs on stage at left before crowd and huge lighting/sound towers.]]
Sound for the concert was engineered by sound engineer [[Bill Hanley (sound engineer)|Bill Hanley]]. "It worked very well", he said of the event. "I built special speaker columns on the hills and had 16 loudspeaker arrays in a square platform going up to the hill on {{convert|70|foot|adj=on|disp=sqbr}} towers. We set it up for 150,000 to 200,000 people. Of course, 500,000 showed up."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.fohonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=579&Itemid=1 |title=Parnelli Innovator Honoree, Father of Festival Sound |magazine=[[Front of House Magazine|Front of House]] |date=September 2006 |access-date=June 24, 2013 |archive-date=September 30, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930163458/http://www.fohonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=579&Itemid=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Altec Lansing|ALTEC]] designed marine plywood cabinets that weighed half a ton apiece and stood {{convert|6|ft|m}} tall, almost {{convert|4|ft|m}} deep, and {{convert|3|ft|m}} wide. Each of these enclosures carried four {{convert|15|in|mm|adj=on}} [[JBL (company)|JBL]] D140 loudspeakers. The [[tweeter]]s consisted of 4×2-Cell & 2×10-Cell Altec Horns. Behind the stage were three transformers providing 2,000 [[amperes]] of current to power the amplification setup.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jerry |last=Hopkins |title=Festival! The Book of American Music Celebrations |publisher=Macmillan Publishing |year=1970 |location=New York |isbn=978-0-02-580170-7 }}</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2020}} For many years this system was collectively referred to as ''the Woodstock Bins''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.3rdearmusic.com/hyarchive/hiddenyearsstory/pasafari.html |title=From Live Peace in Toronto to the Thin End of Wedgies in Soweto |website=3rd Ear Music |department=The Hidden Years |access-date=July 30, 2011 |archive-date=January 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128214730/http://www.3rdearmusic.com/hyarchive/hiddenyearsstory/pasafari.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The live performances were captured on two 8-track [[Scully Recording Instruments|Scully]] recorders in a tractor trailer backstage by Edwin Kramer and Lee Osbourne on 1-inch Scotch recording tape at 15[[Inch per second|{{Nbsp}}ips]] (0.38 m/s) then mixed at the [[Record Plant]] studio in New York.<ref name=Billboard2009>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lCUF-Ml_lBYC&pg=PT22 |page=22 |last=Waddell |first=Ray |title=Peace and Prosperity: How A Three-Day Festival Became A Four-Decade Business |date=August 8, 2009 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |publisher=Nielsen Business Media |volume=121 |number=31 |issn=0006-2510 |access-date=September 30, 2021 |archive-date=May 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240510133054/https://books.google.com/books?id=lCUF-Ml_lBYC&pg=PT22#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>