Point Source Audio has announced that its CONFIDENCE COLLECTION CO2-8WLp microphones have been specified by noted theatrical sound designer Shannon Slaton for a multi-year international tour of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music, which began at the Marina Bay Sands Theatre in Singapore before moving on to Kuala Lumpur and Taiwan.
Slaton, who brings more than 25 years of experience as a theatrical sound designer and Broadway audio mixer, explains, “Designing for a tour, I have to think about how much time people have to load the show in and out and the equipment has to sit in a certain amount of truck space. If you’re doing a Broadway show, you have three weeks and you install the equipment where you want it. But with a tour you have 8 to 12 hours, so the equipment and ease of travel becomes part of the equation.
“I designed the tour of The Sound of Music in the U.S. for three years and this is the same production currently touring Asia,” Slaton continues. “The design for the international tour is pretty close to the U.S. sound design.”
Slaton opted for the Point Source Audio CO2-8WLp lavaliers for the cast, with a design that pairs two mic elements into a single housing to create a low-profile form factor. The paired elements are factory matched in frequency and sensitivity so that when a backup is initiated, any difference in audio performance is nearly undetectable.
“Over the years I’ve used Point Source Audio quite a bit and now I’m pretty consistently using their mics,” says Slaton. “I find that the connectors are very robust, and they don’t sweat out as often as other mics. They seem to last longer, and they sound really good. There’s not too much more that you care about in a microphone than those things!
“Having that built-in redundancy gives you peace of mind,” he concludes “My leads wear two mics and it’s nice that you can just pull them out of the box and put them on the actor; normally there’s a lot of work to get lavaliers to be two mics in one. Most of the cast only has one transmitter, but they have two mics which is great because if there is a problem you just have to switch the connector.”
Go here for more specifics on the CONFIDENCE COLLECTION.
