Re: headset

[pdCampbell@goodyear.com (pDaleCampbell)]

On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 20:46:35 -0700 (PDT), Melanie & Tom
<llama@ne.uswest.net> wrote:

> 	has anyone ever heard of any connection with K. Bush and the
> "hands-free" headset microphone? maybe that she was the first to use
> them in a performance, perhaps? She didn't play a role in inventing them
> , did she?

>From "Cloudbusting", a compilation by Ron Hill (available on Gaffaweb, I
believe):

>         HOW COMPLICATED HAS THE SOUND BEEN FOR THE TOUR?
>         ENGINEER: Ah, very complicated actually.   [INAUDIBLE]  Mainly the
> miking up of Kate herself, um, from the dance point of view.
> 
>         HOW HAVE YOU SOLVED THAT?
>         ENGINEER: With a very small microphone!  Small mike on a boom arm,
> its gotta be used from the side of her head.   
> 
>         The most difficult ones are where I've got the headset and I'm
> moving a lot.  It's an amazing feeling of freedom, because, like,
> there's nothing in your hands yet you can hear your voice being
> projected miles away - it's incredible.  But it's not quite in it's
> full design yet.  There are just a few things that are wrong with it.
> And it's not always right in front of my mouth, but we're getting that
> seen to.
> (1979, Kate Bush On Tour)

>         What I needed was a microphone that I didn't have to hold, because
> we wanted to do dance that involved two other dancers so I could be
> lifted and we could run across the stage, and holding a microphone was
> very inhibiting.  So the sound guy that we had for the tour, I said to
> him `I want you to invent a microphone for me that I don't have to
> carry'.  So he basically invented the radio mikes that you see now,
> that he made it out of a coat hanger.  So he got an old coat hanger and
> kind of bent it into shape here, and then had this piece that came
> round here, that the microphone was then put on so it was just in
> front of the mouth.  (1989, VH-1)


Hope that helps.

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