Rihanna on tour with Sennheiser
USA - Rihanna is currently promoting her fourth album, Rated R, with high-profile live and televised performances in the United States and Europe, taking her longtime favourite combination Sennheiser SKM 5200 handheld microphone with MD 5235 capsule wherever she goes.

Rihanna has been using the SKM 5200 since adopting it for her first headlining tour at the end of 2007. According to monitor engineer Brian Evans, on this tour her two background vocalists are also using the SKM 5200/ MD 5235 combination. The wireless vocal mics are being used together with Sennheiser's EM 3732 twin receivers.

Rihanna's music has long had a rock sensibility, but the music on her new album and the current live band line-up really brings that harder edge to the fore. "It's a serious bunch of players," says Evans, "We have the all-time classic, Sennheiser MD 421 II on our lead guitarist, Nuno Bettancourt from Extreme, and drummer Chris Johnson, from Stevie Wonder's live band, uses a Sennheiser e 901 boundary microphone and several e 902s on his kit."

(Jim Evans)


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