I’ve heard this system before … bloody massive and well loud. They were giving out free earplugs lmao!

@Dr Bunsen 173351 wrote:

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A documentary on the making of Valve sound system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jjsbhNdGs

ehh the original account was closed;
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What happened to these guys? Last I heard, half the rig had been installed in a club somewhere (couple of years ago). Do they still tour?

And yeah, it’s stupidly loud and bassy and IMO not that nice sounding. When you go to their nights the bass is like some sort of drug that you can’t escape from and you have to get used to your insides churning around for 8 hours. Don’t really see the point in running a rig so loud that everyone has to wear earplugs all night or risk permanent hearing damage – just turn it down a bit!

I would never risk bringing a valve speaker/rig to a soundsystemm, they’re so delicate especially after a few hours heating up..

@Rellizate 429850 wrote:

I would never risk bringing a valve speaker/rig to a soundsystemm, they’re so delicate especially after a few hours heating up..

AFAIK there are no actual valves (as in thermionic valves, the glowing things you find in old audio gear) in the Valve sound system.

@cheeseweasel 429873 wrote:

AFAIK there are no actual valves (as in thermionic valves, the glowing things you find in old audio gear) in the Valve sound system.

But they still use the glass valves right? Surely? All the description matched glass valves – sounding “warmer” and better as time goes on..

I doubt it – I think it’s quite difficult to engineer them for high power PA applications. I know Dillinja’s label is called Valve so I guess it was named after that (or is it the other way round?).

Whatever they use in that soundsystem it sounded crap when I heard it – stupidly loud, too much bass and everything else sounded distorted. Not my idea of a ‘warm’ sound.

Sounded ok when I heard it, but I’ve heard much better soundsystems. It’s just really, stupidly loud.

All of you need to shut the fuck up talking shit!.. too loud? too much bass? lol sound like a bunch of little bitches!
vlv sound is killer and is exactly what the scene needed.

IT AINT TOO LOUD!!!!

Fair do’s. Enjoy your tinnitus.

First of all i think my ears have been damaged more by poor sound systems in clubs with way too much high frequencies than vlv sound and plus they give ear plugs so u can take a break to save your ears doesnt mean u cant still hear and feel the music.