LOS ANGELES — This month multi-platinum recording artist Jesse McCartney will be seen onstage across the country using Shure UHF-R wireless with some of the biggest names in music today, including Rihanna, Chris Brown and Katy Perry, supporting his third album, Departure.
"The mic we’re using sounds great on his voice. I love dealing with the UHF-R system. It’s very easy to find frequencies, and it’s really dependable,” says Christopher J. Roberts, McCartney’s monitor engineer.
Roberts presides over a stage plot dominated entirely by Shure, with UHF-R wireless systems used on backing vocals and a combination of wireless PSM 700 in-ear personal monitors and PSM 600 hardwired systems bringing each band member their own mix. Back on the drum kit, Shure’s large-diaphragm KSM44s serve duty on overheads, KSM137s reside on hat and ride, Beta 98s stand-in on toms, and a Beta 52 A/Beta 91 combo is employed on kick drum— usually mixed together to create the desired sound.
“Just like you’d think, the Beta 91 is inside the kick drum,” Roberts explains, “while the Beta 52 A is on the outside. Because of the distance that exists between the two in our setup, in the natural order of things they are usually out of phase with one another. So, by simply flipping the phase on the 52, all of a sudden the low-end comes back—the punch, the tone, everything.”
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