Posted by jakdedert on 09/14/06 03:27

Agent_C wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:26:32 GMT, "HiC" <brassplyer@xahoo.xom> wrote:
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>> So how does the talent pick up the mic and there's nothing there??
>
> Not nearly as bad as what happened to Celine Dion at the 2004 Grammy
> Awards. A tech had to actually walk out on stage and hand her a
> working mike.

Anybody hear Boyz 2 Men do 'America the Beautiful' for the opening of
the US Open? The mic balance was so awful, that I didn't hear a note of
the melody during the entire song...just harmony parts.

Of course, I was only *listening*. Were they all singing on one mic?

jak

>
> This is what I wrote about it the next day: "What a disaster... First,
> they hand her a dead mike. Then, they patched in the wrong channel
> over the air (so you hear a frantic engineer's voice billowing through
> the hall). Then, her monitor mix is bad to the point she had to remove
> her earpiece. And if that wasn't enough... Feedback! Twice!!"
>
> A_C
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