“I have over 25 years’ experience as a live sound engineer and designer, and I have been using DPA since it was B&K; the
d:factos™ are great-sounding mics,” says ten Brinke. “It was an honour to work on Eurovision, one of the world’s biggest live television productions. It was wonderful to find that there was no doubt from anyone within the production as to which mics to use.”
For Peters, who has 30 years’ experience running sound for the Dutch National Radio & Television Services, “taking care of the Eurovision Sound Contest was a unique experience,” which was further compounded by the unique COVID-19 protocols in place this year. In terms of the microphones, Peters noted that “they matched best with the needs of this production.”
Due to the pandemic, the Eurovision team was extra cautious about hygiene. As a result, the production invested in 120 separate
d:facto™ microphone grids to ensure each singer would have their own, for an added level of health safety. “The microphone were also cleaned between changing the grids,” adds Peters. “Though this required more work than in the past, and the addition of two crew members, we were happy there were no issues from screwing the grids on and off the microphones so frequently.”