His monitor equipment already featured a Sennheiser G2 in ear system, which, says monitor engineer and stage manager Jimmy Nicholson, are an industry standard. But when Nicholson started working with Mr Hudson in April of this year, his familiarity with the company's equipment prompted the addition of Sennheiser microphones to the audio inventory.
"We are using a combination of G3 and G2 935 mics, and G2 IEM systems. In addition, I'm using a Net-1 and a laptop running Wireless Systems Manager," says NIcholson.
"I specified all the equipment in use except the IEM systems, which Mr Hudson already owned - in the absence of the G3 option, the G2 IEMs would have been my choice anyway. The G2 IEM systems are a standard in the truest sense of the word. So much so, that when someone mentions IEMs, the G2 system is the reassuring image that immediately springs to mind."
Nicholson's choice of Sennheiser equipment is a result of working with the company on previous projects, including Jamiroquai as FOH tech, and both Calvin Harris and Chipmunk on monitor mixing duties. "It seems that whenever I start on something new, my first call is to Sennheiser UK's Phil Cummings, and it's inevitably to ask a favour," he says.
(Jim Evans)
