The unsung heroes of the Grammy Awards may well be the microphone operators responsible for making sure winners and presenters sound pitch perfect when they take the broadcast stage. An added challenge: adjusting the ever unpredictable height of the mic stand.
“Most of the microphone stands out there don’t adjust,” says veteran mic operator David Mounts, who has worked thefor years. “And be cause we don’t know the winners beforehand, some guy has to run out onstage and move it to a height that he thinks is going to be right. And then a person comes out and gets their award, and then another person comes out [to present], and there’s just not enough time in a busy show to allocate labor to do that. Nor does anybody want to see it on camera.
We have sent men to the moon; we have developed the artificial heart — can we not find a solution to this perennial problem? Turns out there is hope in the form of the PopUp microphone, invented by Mounts’ father. According to tech Tom Streible, PopUp mics are adjustable and controlled re motely, but require a hole cut into the stage.
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