Friday, May 24th, 2013
Bringing the world of technical theatre to you.
Katy Perry’s engineering team relies on DPA Microphones’ 4088 cardioid headsets for all the pop superstar’s live performances, including her current California Dreams world tour. With the fast-paced, high-action set mechanics of the tour, Perry’s front-of-house engineer Peter Keppler needed a mic that could adapt to any situation. The smooth design of the DPA 4088, [...]
Long-running BBC TV sports quiz, A Question of Sport, set off on its second UK tour during November with a full quota of DPA’s new d:fine single ear headset mics. The show’s audio provider, RG Jones Sound Engineering, purchased the mics from UK distributor Sound Network especially for the tour. “We bought the d:fine mics [...]
Musician and composer Kathryn Tickell has been using DPA 4099 instrument clip mics, supplied by UK distributor Sound Network, for her Northumbrian Voices project, which has been touring the UK. Northumbrian Voices is based on interviews and recordings made with family members and shepherd musicians from whom Tickell learnt tunes and songs. Three generations of [...]
Theatrical performer and musician Emilie Autumn, backed by her all-female band the Bloody Crumpets, doesn’t stint on the entertainment. Apart from singing, violin-playing and vaudevillian chit-chat between performers, Autumn’s act includes aerial flying, burlesque fan dancing, stilt-walking, fire eating and multiple costume changes. She finds the only headworn mic to keep pace with her flamboyant [...]
Christoph Willibald von Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice was held during June and July against the royal backdrop of Soestdijk Palace in Utrecht, attracting 1,500 people per night. A large quantity of DPA microphones, including the first 2006A and 2011A mics to arrive in Holland, were provided by DPA’s Dutch distributor Amptec for the event. [...]
DPA’s new Reference Standard microphones, specified by sound designer Mick Potter and supplied by Amber Technology to Melbourne production company System Sound, are being used on the Australian production of Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-awaited sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. Love Never Dies continues the story of the Phantom, moving from [...]
DPA Microphones have launched their brand new modular series of microphones at Prolight & Sound 2011. The DPA Reference Standard Microphones have already won a Pro Audio Review PAR Excellence award and a Mix Magazine Certified Hit since being unveiled at last year’s AES Convention in San Francisco. The Reference Standard mics take DPA’s Standard [...]
