Goodspeed Opera House’s Sennheiser Wireless Gear Heard, Not Seen
EAST HADDAM, CT – The Goodspeed Opera House stages musicals in an intimate setting, giving audience members an up-close look at the detailed choreography and costumes. Goodspeed Musicals' sound team uses compact wireless microphone systems from Sennheiser, and the clip-on mics and transmitters are small enough to stay tucked away and out of view.
Keeping the microphones
completely hidden is a major priority for us, said Jay Hilton, sound designer
for Goodspeed Musicals. But it still takes some doing to make sure microphones
remain completely out of sight, yet deliver natural-sounding, non-muffled
sound.
Whenever possible, I mount
the transmitter and microphone in actors' wigs, Hilton said. Our wig
designers actually design the look of the wig to accommodate the transmitters.
For last December's holiday
production of Jim Henson's Emmet Otter, Hilton was presented with the challenge of hiding microphones among
bright woodland creature costumes.
Blending the mics into the
bright orange fur of the foxes and bright green scales of the lizard is not
common practice for the more traditional musicals we do.
He ended up painting the
microphone cables to match, and applied a special painted tape to the head of
the microphone that also kept extra sweat and moisture at bay.
Supreme attention to
detail is a cornerstone of every one of Goodspeed Musicals' productions, said
Stefanie Reichert, vice president of strategic marketing at Sennheiser USA, which
happens to be located just a few towns away in Old Lyme, Conn. We're very
proud to support such a major force within our local arts community.
Visitors to the Goodspeed
Opera House can experience the Broadway-quality sound of Sennheiser throughout
the year. Productions include Carnival! (July 9 through Sept. 18) and How to Succeed in Business without
Really Trying (Sept. 24-Nov. 28).
For more information, please
visit www.goodspeed.org (http://www.goodspeed.org/) and www.sennheiserusa.com (http://www.sennheiserusa.com/).
Source: Goodspeed Opera House’s Sennheiser Wireless Gear Heard, Not Seen
