Editing Disco (section)

===Sound and light equipment===
[[File:Dance floor 2 by harmon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|Major disco clubs had lighted dance floors, with the lights flashing to complement the beat.]]
[[File:ZMF 2015 IMGP 0000.jpg|thumb|The reflective light [[disco ball]] was a fixture on the ceilings of many discothèques.]]
Powerful, bass-heavy, [[hi-fi]] [[Sound reinforcement system|sound systems]] were viewed as a key part of the disco club experience. [[The Loft (New York City)|The Loft]] party host [[David Mancuso]] introduced the technologies of tweeter arrays (clusters of small loudspeakers, which emit high-end frequencies, positioned above the floor) and bass reinforcements (additional sets of [[subwoofer]]s positioned at ground level) at the start of the 1970s to boost the treble and bass at opportune moments, and by the end of the decade [[sound engineer]]s such as [[Richard Long (sound designer)|Richard Long]] had multiplied the effects of these innovations in venues such as the Garage."<ref name="timlawrence.info">{{cite news|url=http://www.timlawrence.info/articles2/2013/7/16/beyond-the-hustle-seventies-social-dancing-discotheque-culture-and-the-emergence-of-the-contemporary-club-dancer|title="Beyond the Hustle: Seventies Social Dancing, Discotheque Culture and the Emergence of the Contemporary Club Dancer". Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009, 199–214.|newspaper=Tim Lawrence|access-date=June 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614135534/http://www.timlawrence.info/articles2/2013/7/16/beyond-the-hustle-seventies-social-dancing-discotheque-culture-and-the-emergence-of-the-contemporary-club-dancer|archive-date=June 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

Typical lighting designs for disco dance floors include multi-colored lights that swirl around or flash to the beat, [[strobe light]]s, an [[illuminated dance floor]], and a [[Disco ball|mirror ball]].