Each year, Pryor High School in northeast Oklahoma presents a major musical performance in the Herchel Avra Performing Arts Center, utilizing Countryman microphones to help ensure top-quality audio quality.
Specifically, Jim Bryant, Jr, manager of the Avra Performing Arts Center, Bryant routinely relies on a dozen Countryman E6 Earset microphones of both omnidirectional and directional varieties for performances that include Singing in the Rain, Phantom of the Opera, Music Man, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and this year, Oklahoma.
“For all of these presentations, we used our Countryman microphones to make the shows the very best in sound they could possibly be, and we have never been disappointed,” Bryant reports. “We use our E6 omni and directional microphones with Shure SLX UHF series body packs and, together, they make an excellent wireless microphone system.”
When queried about those attributes that make the Countryman E6 Earset mics so well suited to these types of productions, Bryant specifically cites both audio performance and light weight. “We never have issues with either speech intelligibility or the quality of vocal production, and are able to hear each student as they say their lines or sing their solos”
“We’ve also been very pleased with the way the E6 mics fit on our students’ faces,” Bryant continues. “We service elementary students—using the short boom E6S mics for them—and we can also fit our large high school men with the regular Countryman mics. The Countryman mics are very discreet, so they are never distracting.”