Helpinstill

[Rick Sarson]

For your curiosity. [glow=red,2,300] www.helpinstill.com/products.html [/glow]I did a gala dinner recently at which Jamie Cullum was the act. He had about the most relaxed engineer I have ever come across, he just had a bit a shout down the hand held, set the monitors, installed a Helpinstill (see above), a couple of mics for Jamies piano "percussion" plus a C-tape for emergency and then left me to get on with it. A very entertaining gig! But the interesting thing was the Helpinstill, I had never come across one before and it worked very well indeed. Being a magnetic contact mic there was buckets of level and next to no need for EQ. I thought you might be interested?

[John Bell]

What an amazing product. I would like to hear a comparison of the humbucking stereo version, against the traditional stereo mic set-up.
John.

[Simon Ryder]

Looks like technology has moved on again.

I'm still using a pair of C414s over the hammers, a c451 in the sound hole and a pair of C-Ducerws underneath.