Posted by Steve Guidry on 09/14/06 17:42

Anyone remember Michael Jackson at the Superbowl ? Hitech state-of-the art
headset mic is dead, dead, dead. No Michael voice for the first song. When
they finally got their collective heads out of the mud, what did they hand
him ?

A plain ol' SM-58.

Worked beautifully . . .







"Agent_C" <Agent-C-hates-spam@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:26:32 GMT, "HiC" <brassplyer@xahoo.xom> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> 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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