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Disneyland. As the floats in the "Main Street Parade" wind along their way, various instrumental versions of the same tunes emanate from them ... in unison.
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Disneyland
Disneyland and Walt Disney World have used wireless mikes for years. More recently, they have incorporated such technology into their "Main Street Parade." This was done to solve a specific problem: synchronization of music between floats. Formerly, separate tape players and sound systems were used on each float. Since there was no way to synchronize the music between floats, this caused a conflict of sound, especially when two floats were equidistant from a particular point along the parade route. Disney technicians solved the problem by feeding individual synchronized music tracks to several transmitters - brass to one transmitter, rhythm track to another, strings to a third, and so on (Figure 2). Each transmitter was operating on a separate radio frequency, sending its track to a receiver and sound system mounted on each float. In this way, a fully-synchronized music program could be fed to all the floats in unison. More than one curbside spectator has wondered, "How do they all play together like that ?"
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