Microphones 4017 DPA's Shotgun have been chosen by the sound team of the Auditorio Della Musica Parco in Rome as the best "non-visible" professional audio solution for the recording of a DVD of two operas.

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The Danish professional audio manufacturer DPA Microphones has supplied your microphones 4017 Shotgun, selected by the sound team of the Auditorio Della Musica Parco in Rome to record the high quality audio of a DVD of two operas that is being performed within the framework of the Santa Cecilia Opera Studio, A master program dedicated to bel canto.

DPA operates RomePlus high-quality audio, el ingeniero de sonido Giacomo de Caterini subraya que “uno de los requisitos primordiales del director era que los micrófonos no podían ser visibles durante la grabación del vídeo para mantener una estricta atención de los artistas, no bad experiences of outgoing microphones in their wigs or wardrobe".

Another challenge was that the microphones hanging from the ceiling did not appear in the backgrounds of the video., "So at first there was only the option of using shotgun microphones placed on the edge of the stage mouth., but it would be of only acceptable quality with a sufficient quantity to capture the audio properly.".

dpa 4017 shotgunThe solution selected was standard reference microphones 4017 Shotgun (shotgun or barrel) DPA, "because although I expected its high-quality sound and reliability from DPA systems, I was unaware of its ability to deliver a different and excellent sound to any other equipment I have tried.; with minimal settings, Readable and clean, picking up the vocalists who were at the back of the stage", says De Caterini.

Microphones 4017 Deliver clear directional sound, regardless of environmental conditions, with new dedicated preamplifiers to deliver lower noise than other gun. The operas produced for this DVD, Ravel's "L'Heure Espagnole" and Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi", in the Petrassi Hall of the Della Musica Auditorio Parco complex, with capacity for seven hundred seats, "They have met the requirements without microphone visibility and with exceptional sound quality".

DPA operates Rome


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by • 9 May, 2013
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