P!NK swings into action with Sennheiser
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Sennheiser has a long association with P!NK through her RF coordinator and monitor engineer for the band, Horst Hartmann. For her 2013 The Truth About Love Tour, he specified an integrated in-ear monitor and microphone system to help facilitate her technically and physically challenging show.
For the current tour, the microphone system has been updated with Sennheiser’s latest technology, including its Digital 6000 system, both handheld and bodypack, an improved custom mic/in-ear combo, and wireless monitoring via Sennheiser’s 2000 Series.
The Competence Centre Acoustics and Mechanics team from Sennheiser provided Hartmann with six new in-ear/headmic combos for the current tour. The design remained predominantly the same but now features an improved mic connector on the ear-piece and new, mechanically refined Fischer Amps custom ear moulds. Jochen Fischer of Fischer Amps was delighted about this second coop: “This is a fully hand-made design, and a very small series - to be able to offer a product like this in a joint project is just great.”
On the acoustics side, the Sennheiser team employed P!NK’s special IE 800 driver with its custom-modified frequency response and the mic boom of a Sennheiser HSP 4 headset.
“We have been using the in-ear/mic combo since 2013, this was a huge step forwards for P!NK’s stage shows,” adds her monitor engineer Jon Lewis. “And the new system is even better. Allowing her to consistently keep the quality of the ear mix during her energetic acrobatic stage shows.”
Talking of the switch from Sennheiser’s analogue 2000 series to Digital 6000, Hartmann says: “I chose the Digital 6000 system simply because its digital and the signal can go straight into our consoles. Also, we have a lot of LED screens on the show which were causing issues with our RF system. The whole system is easy to use, reliable, sounds good and it's working well.”
Wired Sennheiser mics are also heavily in use during the tour. The drumkit is miked with evolution e 901, e 902, e 904 and e 905 instrument microphones, the Leslie is picked up with three MK 4. For backing and guest vocals, additional SKM 6000 handheld transmitters and evolution e 935 microphones are used, while the atmosphere is captured by MKH 8050 super-cardioids, MKH 8060 short gun and MKH 8070 long gun microphones.
(Jim Evans)
