Pete Alcock Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Total spectacle last night. Makes one immensely proud. The organisation and project management skill that went into a show like that is unfathomable. I noted that most, if not all the performers (even the children on the beds) has an earphone, obviously connected to an IEM pack of some sort. Did each one really have an expensive (sennheiser or similar) radio pack? Surely not possible to coordinate that many, with the right performers getting the right pack on the right group, and making sure they all had fresh batteries, and of course getting them all back in afterwards? Or were they all told to bring a small radio and tune to 10X MHz and they just used a low power broadcast transmitter? No idea, but someone must know. Would be fascinated to find out. PA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjadingle Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Would it be on a similar system to that used at sporting events where you can buy a receiver to listen to the refs mic? I agree using proper IEM's in that quantity seems unlikely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 From the BBC News website... In my case, that job was playing one of the Working Men and Women charged with tearing up England's "green and pleasant land" and erecting an industrial landscape in its place. Marching in time to a "click track" piped into our ears through in-ear monitors, we set about the task with gusto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbsy Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 I've got no connection with the opening but I know that, in lieu of "proper" IEMs on big events like this, it's been known to get a temporary FM broadcast licence and use relatively inexpensive credit card-sized broadcast receivers. I believe that when a trick like this was used for the Sydney Olympics, participants were allowed to keep the radios as a thank you gift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueShift Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 There are basically 3 levels of monitoring on a gig like this: Level 1 would be principle performers etc... (Macca...)Level 2 would be Stage Managaement or key crew that need cues and programme feed as well as secondary performersLevel 3 would be the mass cast The IEM system for the mass cast is made by riedel. They, I believe, mostly created this current system for Beijing where they needed 15k+ IEM packs. It basically is a receiver which can tune to 1 of half a dozen or so preset channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 I can't see what the problem was - the Government have thousands of ch 69 receivers sitting in a warehouse, excellent use for them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Just back from this last night, bizarrely, I was in Neil's (who wrote the BBC piece) team of 4 industrial men & women - small world... These are the IEM packs we had, teamed with the cheapest, nastiest earplugs. Nothing special, but did the job.http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x37/alecsp/Various/IEM.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Alcock Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 Thanks Alec, Fascinating, and my curiosity is now satisfied. I though the 56.8MHz was an odd choice, but found that this band is allocated as follows: "Euro Recommendation T/R 75-03 (Nice 1985) set 67.5-68 as a prefered band for UK use by visiting foreigners for temporary PMR use by "ITINERANT ENTERPRISES AND SPORTING EVENTS", but 75-03 has not been implemented by the UK There is a Euro plan (25-08) to re-organise 54-68: 61.0125 ... Base, to 67.9875 (split -7: 54.0125-60.9875)" Cheers, PA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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