The nine-piece band Brit Floyd regularly performs to sell-out audiences in the US and Europe and. Recently, the band’s vocals were switched to DPA d:facto microphones, after saxophonist Ryan Saranich had had discovered thed:vote Core 4099 Instrument Microphone and approached DPA’s Vincent Gabriel Antonini and asked him for vocal mic recommendations. After a meeting with Antonini in Philadelphia where the band tried out d:facto during a soundcheck, sound engineer Gareth Darlington recommended them for the entire vocal line-up.
His view is shared by Andrea Pellegrini, who recently began working with the band as sound engineer: ‘I’ve loved d:facto mics from the very beginning because they’re transparent and extremely detailed,’ he says. ‘There’s a lack of proximity effect, they’re not aggressive on high frequencies, and they give me the possibility of EQing in a very quick and precise way.’
‘The d:vote Core 4099 Instrument Microphone noticeably improved our sax sound, both through the PA and also through the on stage IEMs,’ Brit Floyd guitarist, vocalist and Musical Director Damian Darlington reports. ‘When Vincent Gabriel Antonini kindly loaned us a d:facto to try out, we also noticed an instant improvement to our vocal sound. Gareth had previously been complaining about issues to do with high frequency response on the vocal mic that I was using and also a proximity effect problem with the mic used by Ian Cattel [bass and vocals]. Now, with d:facto, the full band width of frequencies and increased detail can be heard, particularly when we are using in ear monitoring. This helps improve our vocal performances.’
After his first meeting with Brit Floyd, Vincent Gabriel Antonini subsequently flew to Milwaukee with a full set of DPA drum mics so that they could try them out during a soundcheck. Darlington recorded the soundcheck so that he could evaluate the results at a later stage. ‘We were very impressed with the sound we got from them,’ he says. ‘We’re now hoping to add some DPA mics onto our drums and percussion setups in the near future.’
Brit Floyd is now using five wired d:facto Vocal Microphones and one capsule d:facto in a wireless body across the front vocal line on stage . All of them are fitted with a d:facto 4018VL linear capsule.
As well as the US and Europe, the band occasionally perform in the Middle East and South America, and are presently coming to the end of a US tour of 80 shows in venues such as Radio City Music Hall in New York, Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado and The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Later in 2018, they will return to Europe for another 40 shows.
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