Followers just lately flocked to cities throughout North America and Europe for an opportunity to see Beyoncé stay in the course of the Renaissance Tour: a 56-stop run to help her newest GRAMMY® Award-winning album. Working with such a high-caliber artist, Renaissance Tour Monitor Engineer James Berry has excessive expectations for his sound setup—one which would wish to impress not just for the stay reveals, but additionally for the just lately launched Renaissance: A Movie by Beyoncé.
Understanding this, Berry turned to DPA Microphones for plenty of versatile options that may maintain up rain or shine, together with the brand new 2017 Shotgun Microphone. “We did some beta testing with the 2017 and it ended up being an important crowd mic,” Berry explains. “The readability and vary of it was so full; we had been in a position to cowl extra space with no distortion via the PA. I didn’t get any of that high-end distortion you hear with different shotguns. You’ll be able to actually experience it with out getting any of that crunchiness you normally expertise when the viewers will get loud. I additionally didn’t should excessive go this shotgun as a lot as I do with others, which is uncommon.”
The 2017s had been particularly useful for the stay present recordings achieved on the Houston, Texas stops for the movie. “We flew twelve 2017s from the ceilings of the catwalk to seize the higher ranges of the stadium,” Berry explains. “The small measurement of the microphones actually helped to cover it inside the digicam platforms and entrance of home decks.”
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