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one guy to concentrate on Beyoncé, the girls and the band would be very taxing!” There are 12 channels of Sennheiser EM 3732-II wireless receivers on the tour, to cater for the eight Sennheiser SKM 5200-II handheld mics and four SK 5212-II belt pack transmitters (for the horn section). IEMs are Shure PSM10000s. “The flexibility of the RF when
working with Sennheiser is great, because unlike many manufacturers, if you buy something in a certain range in the US then come over to Europe, you can re-tune it,” he says. “On the flip-side, Shure took hold of the in-ear world when they brought out the Diversity receiver belt packs with the PSM1000s, which made our RF and monitor guys way more happy in terms of stability.”
Beyoncéuses a Sennheiser SKM 5200-II handheld with MD5235 dynamic capsule
“We’re using a mix of AES and analogue because Demetrius [Moore] needs analogue signal as there’d be a lot of sample reconverting involved if we went AES into the Avid [Profile] console”
Stephen Curtin
to be able to go with the music,” Curtin insists. “She’s got to be limited beforehand, to find out how low she can go before she’s lost, so it’s a case of balancing compression to get it to sit in a pocket of 8dB as opposed to 20dB.” Beyoncé and the ‘Big Mamas’ (her
three backing singers) have their own dedicated monitor engineer, Daniel Gonzales, also working from an SD7, while Demetrius Moore works monitors for her band from an Avid Profile. “It’s pretty crazy during a Beyoncé
performance at monitor position as there is a lot of talkback going on and it tends to get very vocal,” Curtin admits. “For
At FOH, Curtin is running 80 channels on his SD7 at 96kHz, which ties in nicely with the bigger system. “I’ve always been a DiGiCo man
and it’s fantastic that we can run at 96k. This means we’re straight out of the desk into the Dolby processors and amplifiers at the front end of the PA without any sample rate converting going on whatsoever,” he explains. “We’re using a mix of AES and analogue because Demetrius [Moore] needs analogue signal as there’d be a lot of sample reconverting involved if we went AES into the Avid [Profile] console.”
Photo: Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP
Photo: Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP
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