Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-awaited sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, has opened at London’s Adelphi Theatre, with cast and orchestra fully miked up with DPA microphones, specified by sound designer Mick Potter and supplied by Autograph Sound Hire. Love Never Dies continues the story of the Phantom, moving from Paris to Phantasma, a fabulous, early 20th century show ground in … [Read more...]
DPA at Prolight + Sound Frankfurt 2010
DPA Microphones is exhibiting with its German distributor Mega Audio on Stand G40, Hall 8 of Prolight + Sound, and giving visitors to the stand the chance to win a DPA 4099 clip mic. Among the range of microphones being shown by DPA and Mega are new additions to the 4099 range of clip microphones which have been designed with individual instrument groups in mind. The two additions are the DPA … [Read more...]
DPA mics record location ADR for Spanish blockbuster Agora
DPA 4006 omnidirectional mics, purchased via UK distributor Sound Network, have been used on Agora, a new film by Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar, starring Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella set in Roman Egypt. The mics were used for crowd ADR sessions shot on location at Fort Ricasoli in Malta. The sound crew behind the recordings was Sound24, the BAFTA winning and Oscar nominated team from … [Read more...]
DPA mics record Sting’s winter opus at Durham Cathedral
Sting’s recording engineer Donal Hodgson recently embarked on a project to record the artist for A Winter’s Night…Live from Durham Cathedral; a concert version of his latest album, If On A Winter’s Night… for DVD release and international broadcast. Hodgson selected a wide range of DPA microphones to assist him in this complex task, which presented many challenges. The largest of these was the … [Read more...]
DPA mics used for WOMEX opening ceremony in Copenhagen
A large quantity of DPA microphones were used for the opening ceremony of WOMEX, a world music festival held in Copenhagen. Held at Danish Broadcasting’s brand new Koncerthuset concert venue, The Great Nordic Night featured artists from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Samiland and Greenland. Torben Sminge, an experienced live sound engineer working mainly with acoustic … [Read more...]
