A regular user of DPA’s d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphone for touring, internationally acclaimed bassist and composer Kyle Eastwood recently played a gig in Hong Kong that required further mics – supplied by DPA’s Hong Kong office, eight d:vote 4099s were used for drum toms, trumpets and grand piano, while for drum overheads DPA also supplied two d:dicate 2011C recording microphones.
The tour is in support of his latest album, In Transit, which is released on the Jazz Village label, for which he iis joined on stage by a group of young English jazz musicians and by guest artist, Stefano Di Battista.
‘Kyle played at the BB Jazz Lounge in Hong Kong before going on to the Blue Note Jazz club in Tokyo,’ says DPA Microphones Area Sales Manager, Dominic Tsang. ‘As he already had a d:vote 4099 for his double bass, it made sense to match the rest of the mics to that sound.’
Tsang assisted Eastwood’s sound engineer John Fonseca with microphone placement on site so that the audience had the best possible audio experience: ‘I would like to thank DPA for putting at our disposal some fantastic microphones and for all the support on site,’ he says. ‘Each mic definitely helped us get closer to the desired sound and to deal with the challenging set-up.’
The son of actor, director and jazz fan, Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood released his first album From Here to There in 2001 and has gone on to forge a dynamic musical path as a multi-talented double bassist, band leader, composer and producer. While continuing to develop his parallel career as a composer and arranger on his father’s Oscar nominated films Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby and Letters from Iwo Jima, Eastwood has reaffirmed traditions while creating contemporary, lyrical and melodic jazz.
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