Complete Production Rentals uses Audio-Technica microphones nearly exclusively for their work with the Pasadena Symphony and POPS because of A-T's "ability to accurately and consistently convey the nuances of the broad classical and popular music repertoire of the Symphony".
Jack Haffamier, president and founder of Complete Production Rentals, has specific microphone choices for the entire Symphony. On winds he uses the ATM650 Hypercardioid Dynamic Instrument Microphone. For the cellos and string basses, he chooses the AT4040 Cardioid Condenser Microphone, while the AT4051a Cardioid Condenser Microphone is used to capture woodwinds and percussion.
The AT2020 Cardioid Condenser Microphones are used for overall ambience pickup and the AE6100 Hypercardioid Dynamic Handheld Microphone serves a similar purpose but focused as overhead microphones for violins and violas. "We do that in conjunction with the close miking - using an ATM35 Cardioid Condenser Clip-on Instrument Microphone - and that gives us a nice balance between the two," Haffamier explains.
"When we want more of an overall symphonic sound we can rely more on the overheads, and when we want more of a pop sound we rely more on the close miking. It gives us a really nice balance between the two. And where they need a solo we put a 4040 on an overhead and they'll walk up to the middle of the stage and solo on that."
(Jim Evans)
