MRW Lights said:
That was honestly my first guess, the b6 and Mke-1 are very similar in size, but quite diverse in sound. I guessed the countryman because of the length of the capsule housing...
In the protective cap, the MKE-1 gets quite long. They could be B6's, but knowing the rental shops the audio rigs on these shows are pulled from, a B6 would be a special order as they generally only
stock DPA's lineup, flavors of MKE-1 and MKE-2
That looks like DPA's ear loops to me.
The capsules are too long to be DPA's, if I get to it this week and find any around I can post a few DPA dual rigs made like this and it's pretty apparent - even in high-boost caps which are the
flat ones. I can tell you on an intense dancing show like this DPA's would be the second choice to a
Sennheiser. DPA's sweat out like crazy, and
Sennheiser mics are a little more resilient to sweat.
The ear loops could be handmade, or modified purchased loops. I made some out of coat hangers.
These are modified purchased loops, cut down to be a little smaller than
stock. People do hand-make them on big shows, but standard procedure on these shows is just to buy a few dozen pre-made earloops, cut them down to size, and hellermann the cut-off parts.
When I make custom ear-loops like this it's a definite choice over purchasing and it's usually either because I need something very slick looking and super low
profile, or something just a little more boomed out and a
Telex loop looks too cludgy and I'm going for seamless. I'll take the mics, wrap them in a high
gauge tensile
wire, drastically cut down a pre-bought ear loop until I have exactly what I want, or use a more rigid and lower
gauge, less tensile
wire to just barely fit over the ear. Then where the mics and the ear loop meet I wrap them both in fishing
line, coat that all in
epoxy until it is set and the entire
unit is solid, and then paint it all one seamless color with a variety of coloring implements. The end result looks marginally nicer than what they have going on in this photo - which to me screams "I'm built to be extremely durable". Which means either this filming was slammed together quickly, or his rig dies a lot and a nicer hand-made
boom would take too long to put together and just isn't worth the effort. It's not even painted, which is a big giveaway to me that its built to be durable -- if it wasn't touched a lot you'd see more effort to conceal it with skin-tone and hair-tone paints in their respective places on this thing. Broadway mics usually get a lot of paint treatment.