We have been enhancing our student singers in opera for quite a few years. It has been very helpful to the singers (we boost the 2-3 khz range and the 7-8 khz range) as well as to the orchestra which can now play more freely. In using undergraduate singers in a 2000 seat hall with orchestra, we find it more vocally prudent to enhance, as well as giving a better experience to the audience. When you carefully boost those limited frequency ranges (using ambient mikes not body mikes) the result doesn't sound amplified - only clearer and more intelligible.
-- Dr. Barry Bounous Brigham Young University School of Music bounousb@i... bounousb@i...
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