Josh Rogosin, an audio engineer at National Public Radio (NPR), who has recorded and mixed more than 800 “Tiny Desk Concerts,” deploys multi-colored TELEFUNKEN M80 dynamic microphones for his work on the popular video series of live concerts hosted by NPR Music. (Watch here.)
“I love microphones with personality and the colorful M80’s speak to me,” Rogosin says. “I chose the colors with my gut, and it was hard to pick only five. I’ve used these excellent mics on vocals so I can easily differentiate who is on what mic when I mix.”
Rogosin first walked into NPR in 1999 on his way to mixing live shows at The Shakespeare Theatre in downtown D.C. Since then, he has been at the controls for all of NPR’s news magazines and gathered sound in places like Togo and Benin, West Africa, Cambodia and Greece. He has engineered at NPR West and NPR NY and spent two years as technical director at Marketplace Productions in Los Angeles, in addition to serving as senior broadcast engineer for New York Public Radio and Studio 360 as well as an originating producer and sound designer for NPR’s “Ask Me Another.”
“I love it that the Telefunken M80’s have the brightness of a condenser and are hypercardioid. It’s so important to me that mics can be placed far away enough to see a singer’s face completely, and not blocked by a microphone,” he concludes.
