On Jan 2, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Michael Cook wrote:
Does anyone know when microphones were first used for singers in
musicals? I'd be interested in finding a history of amplification in
musical theatre.
Unobtrusive, realistic personal miking became available in the late
'70s. Also, there was a
Does anyone know when microphones were first used for singers in
musicals? I'd be interested in finding a history of amplification in
musical theatre.
At 11:12 -0500 2/01/2005, Crystal Premo wrote:
I do appreciate how body mics on Broadway have made more intimate
singing possible. I hate it,
At 9:44 PM +0100 1/2/05, Michael Cook wrote:
Does anyone know when microphones were first used for singers in
musicals? I'd be interested in finding a history of amplification in
musical theatre.
This is educated guesswork, but could probably be checked out.
Certainly not before 1961, if we're
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At 9:44 PM +0100 1/2/05, Michael Cook wrote:
Does anyone know when microphones were first used for singers in musicals?
I'd be interested in finding
At a wild guess I'd say that the technology may have existed by the early
to mid 1970s. Area miking was possible before that, of course, going back
to the 1950s, but that's overhead hung mics or mics at the front of the
stage. (PZM floor mics came into use in the early 1980s.) Shotgun mics
