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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Engineer here. Live audio is tough in that type of environment and stage setup. You can't really place monitor speakers anywhere since the stage and performer move around a huge amount, and the sound guys go nuts as the performers move because you risk feedback/reverb depending on their positioning in relation to the speakers. It's a 360-degrees stage and audience, so there's never a "behind the stage" direction where your audio is "safe" from feedback. No matter which way they face, there's audience speakers behind them ready to kill their mic with feedback.

Some parts of the audio were live -- you could tell as the voices had more of an echo effect when they did, but still my hats off to the audio engineers for making it work.. and to the gaffers and grips -- they set up that entire stage in about 10 minutes, then tore it all down again in 10 minutes.[/quote]
I love when DCUMers add expertise in areas where they’re actually expert. [/quote]

PP here, and to add to this -- I just read an article about their outfits and the costume changes in particular. They had only 6 _seconds_ to do a costume change during the show. If the performer was on an attached live mic, that's not going to work at all. Either her mic or the receiver will come off, or her in-ear monitor will come off when the outfit is changed. Things are pretty tough with live performances to begin with. That's why Saturday Night Live usually uses boom mics -- too difficult to mike up a person in the short time for costume changes between sketches. You can't risk it failing on live TV.[/quote]

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