Sennheiser Gs Home a Winner at Grammy Awards
20/02/2015
Sacred Music' and the Sennheiser Digital 9000
Ed Sheeran performs on stage at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles February 8, 2015. AFP PHOTO/ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
During a ceremony that featured no less than 23 live performances, Beyonc 's powerful rendition of Thomas A. Dorsey's Take My Hand, Precious Lord' - a traditional gospel hymn also sung by Mahalia Jackson at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral in 1968 - was the emotional pinnacle of the evening. Dressed in an angelic white gown and standing reverently amidst a choir of 12 men and a swooning church organ, Beyonc 's vocal navigated effortlessly through the quiet valleys and explosive passages of the timeless hymn.
Beyonc 's Monitor Engineer, James Berry (l), and her FOH Engineer, Stephen Curtin (r).
The Sennheiser Digital 9000 was successful in capturing every nuance of Beyonc 's extraordinary range and vocal expression. For this particular performance, she wanted to go for an old school vibe of singing in a church, observes Stephen Curtin, Beyonc 's FOH Engineer. I had 100 percent confidence in the Digital 9000, since we just used it on Beyonc and Jay Z's stadium tour, where it was rock solid. People may not be aware of this, but Beyonc 's GRAMMY performance was right in front of the P.A. system with SPLs reaching approximately 100 dB. We ran the vocals on top of all this without any issues at all. Having that kind of control is an entirely new experience in itself.
At monitors, James Berry was pleased with the performance of the SKM 9000 transmitter and MD 9235 capsule combination: The audio was pure and clean, and represented her vocal better than any other microphone out there. With the Digital 9000, you get out exactly what you put in - and this translates to in-ear monitors, the FOH mix and the broadcast world. At FOH, Curtin appreciates the Digital 9000's ultra-wide frequency spectrum and its ability to handle Beyonc s powerful, dynamic voice: Distortion is just something we have never experienced with the SKM 9000, and with the digital HD transmission, you are not losing anything at all.
Mixing Sam Smith: Nothing Less than Perfection'
The audience was completely transfixed when Mary J. Blige joined Sam Smith on stage for an emotionally charged performance of his instant classic Stay With Me'. Smith crooned through a Sennheiser SKM 2000 handheld transmitter coupled with an MMK 965 capsule, while Blige provided capable accompaniment singing through her Sennheiser SKM 5200 transmitter / Neumann KK 105 S capsule combination.
Sam Smith's FOH Engineer, Simon Thomas.
Simon Thomas, FOH Engineer for Sam Smith, has not been fazed by Smith's spectacular rise to fame, or his success at the GRAMMYs. I always had this feeling that Sam would go all the way, ever since I mixed his first American show in July of 2013, he says. Thomas was extremely careful when selecting the right capsule for Smith's voice, which has extraordinary range and power. I chose the Sennheiser 965 capsule for its extremely smooth response. Also I needed a microphone that was going to be very sensitive in the quiet moments, yet could also take a good old spanking when we pushed it.
In terms of reliability and RF performance, Thomas expects nothing less than perfection: I have no tolerance for RF interference, since my attention has to be on mixing the show, he says. To be honest, I have been using Sennheiser transmitters and receivers for over a year and a half now and I can't remember ever having a single RF issue.
More to Love and Listen to at Grammys
Madonna's performance of Living For Love' was highlighted with her singing through a Sennheiser SKM 5200 transmitter coupled with an MD 5005 capsule, along with a Sennheiser 2000 IEM wireless system for monitoring. Meanwhile, Annie Lennox put her special brand of sizzle on Howlin' Wolf's I Put A Spell On You , singing through a Neumann KMS 105 wired condenser microphone. Later in the evening, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga turned on the charm with a playfully romantic performance of Cheek To Cheek - which saw them both singing through a Sennheiser SKM 5200 transmitter and Neumann KK 105 S capsule combination.
Over the course of the evening, hosts and presenters such as Smokey Robinson, Miley Cyrus, LL Cool J and others used Sennheiser SKM 5200 handheld transmitters both on and off stage, coupled with with Neumann KK 105 S capsules.
Sennheiser: Supporting the Home Team
In addition to having its products represented in the vast majority of GRAMMY performances, Sennheiser was also on the ground to support the event's enclave of FOH engineers, monitor engineers, broadcast professionals and RF technicians. We wanted to use the Digital 9000 for the Grammys, but the sound vendor that we normally source it from had it out on another project, recalls Stephen Curtin. We called up Sennheiser and asked if they could send a unit out, and before we knew it we had one on the ground with a complete microphone package. To
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