The band has been on the road consistently over the last three years, across Europe and in the UK promoting two album releases, and supporting the likes of Il Nino, Raging Speedhorn and Prong.
The switch to A-T microphones was a collaborative decision between the band and long-term sound engineer, Martin O'Grady. "Our move to A-T has given us the control and consistency we've been looking for," he states. "A-T are ace!" Weapon of choice for lead singer Paul Isola, is the AEW -42600 UHF wireless system, with a T6100 hyper-cardioid, dynamic capsule, and R4100 receiver. Other mics on stage are AE6100 dynamics for backing vocals and percussion, a selection of AT4050SMs, ATM23HE, AE2500, AE510 and ATM35s on the kit, and AT4050SMs on the guitars.
The T6100 is a high quality, professional, cardioid dynamic transmitter microphone with a tailored frequency response. The mic exhibits solid RF transmission and excellent isolation and feedback rejection and also has extremely low handling noise. The T6100 compatible R4100 receiver has 200 selectable UHF channels per band and True Diversity reception for interference-resistant operation. The proprietary IntelliScan feature automatically finds and sets the best available frequencies on all linked receivers and advanced digital Tone Lock squelch effectively blocks stray RF; the digitally encoded tone also communicating transmitter data for receiver display.
Dual Compander circuitry processes high and low frequencies separately for unmatched audio quality and all transmitters offer rugged, ergonomic metal bodies, programmable features, soft-touch controls, 10 mW/35 mW switchable RF power and up to five preset memory configurations, with customized "names" if desired.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
