HOUSTON — Sennheiser wireless equipment were used at the 9th Annual Latin Grammy Awards show, with performers, presenters and RF technology to deliver the live television broadcast from Houston's Toyota Center. Sennheiser microphones also captured the rhythmic pulse at the heart of the musical performances on the show, and were central to one of the show's highlights, a three-song medley by longtime Sennheiser user Gloria Estefan, who was honored with the 2008 Latin Recording Academy "Person of the Year" award.
Following an introduction from fellow Cuban-American and Grammy-winning actor Andy Garcia, Estefan performed "Mi Tierra" and "Oye Mi Canto" before being joined by José Feliciano and Carlos Santana for a rendition of "No Lloren." According to Tom Holmes, Latin Grammy and Grammy Award show production mixer, "Gloria's engineers demanded that she have evolution series microphones and the SKM 935 vocal mic. And it absolutely had to be G2 personal monitors."
Wireless specialist James Stoffo reports that Sennheiser 300 IEM G2 personal monitoring systems were used by many of the performers: "There were eight G2 ears, four on each of the two stages. They worked all over stage left, stage right and center stage. We also made use of the Sennheiser A 5000-CP antenna for the ears."
Holmes continues, "Eric Schilling, the show's music mixer, likes the Sennheiser backline mics. As the Latin Grammy show uses a number of percussion instruments, and small diaphragm mics on drums just don't work for him, we ended up using 44 Sennheiser evolution 602s and 604s on percussion and drums. Eric is also kind of old school and loves the MD 421 II, so we used those on all kinds of drums, and some on basses."
Four Sennheiser MKH 8040 Series mics were used on acoustic piano for a number of the performers, including up-and-coming Tommy Torres and Alejandra Guzman," concluded Holmes.
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