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Al Fierstein designed the interior acoustics at the legendary Paradise Garage. He also ran the sound for the live shows by such groups as Dan Hartman, Loleatta Holloway, Grace Jones, Bohannan and many more. This was the first scientific application of acoustic principles to a dance club, and a paper detailing the club's acoustics and sound system was presented at the International Convention of the Audio Engineering Society . (The scanned paper can be found on our desktop site. The scan is too large for mobile screens) The Garage won the Billboard Best Disco Award many years in a row.

The sound system was designed by Richard Long, of RLA, Richard Long and Associates. Richard and Al brought Dick Heyser, the inventor of Time Delay Spectrometry, to the Garage for a special visit which he enjoyed greatly.

Under contract to RLA, Alan Fierstein designed the famous RLA series of crossovers, such as the X-2000, X-3000, X-4000 and X-5000. As the sole designer of these units, Al retains the complete schematics and still evaluates, repairs, modifies frequencies and gain, and customizes these old units. We don't manufacture them at the present time. We do not work on the copies made by Rane and others.

Fierstein also designed the Acoustilog SA-1 combining system for allowing seamless transitions from DJ Larry Levan's records to Al's live sound. The Acoustilog Impulser, designed for real-world acoustic troubleshooting, was used to "time-align" large speaker stacks at the Garage, before any other system was even on the market. The time delay unit for this was the Acoustilog TD-1.

Since that time, other club designers have been trying to copy the Garage. If you are designing a club and want the best in acoustics or custom electronics, contact the source, Acoustilog.

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