FOH engineer and sound designer Bruce Jackson, who has mixed Streisand live for many years, reports that the Sennheiser/Neumann vocal mic won a shootout against competing systems. "I listened and compared it against some other mics that I was interested in," he says. "It worked out well."
Jackson, who was once front-of-house engineer for Elvis Presley and, for many years, Bruce Springsteen, was especially impressed with the strong RF performance of the Sennheiser/Neumann mics, which were overseen on the tour by Aaron Foye. "I would take her mic and I'd wander the arena with that vocal mic and do my listening tests," says Jackson. "I'd be in elevators and moving around the place and, where most mics would drop out, the Sennheiser just kept on going."
Sennheiser microphones were also in use throughout the percussion section of the orchestra, with four Evolution Series e609s on John 'JR' Robinson's drum kit, plus a pair of MD 421s on vibes and three MD 441s on tympani.
(Jim Evans)
