Thomas Dolby

Role

Singer Keyboardist Composer

Genre

Rock Pop Electronic

Group

Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club Dolby's Cube

Credits

Joni's Jazz Halloween: A Thomas Dolby Creation Blinded By Science

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Role

Singer Keyboardist Composer

Genre

Rock Pop Electronic

Group

Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club Dolby's Cube

Credits

Joni's Jazz Halloween: A Thomas Dolby Creation Blinded By Science

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Crown CM311 Headworn Condenser Mic

Wireless Microphones

All those vocals are captured via a Crown CM-311 headworn microphone ("You can't use a lot of distancing and mic technique, but on the plus side, I'm definitely into the mobility that I get with the Crown"), but it vies for headspace--literally--as he also wears Sensaphonics personal monitors and a head-mounted camera originally designed for the military to wear during synchronized building entries.

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Neumann U87

Condenser Microphones

"Dolby's lead vocals (which he terms "theatrical") were recorded using a Neumann u87."

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Shure SM58

Dynamic Microphones

Occasionally the ambient mic does more than just pick up idle chatter--it can give him a good scare as well. "I got a bit of a shock the other day," Dolby said with a laugh. "I was on the same bill as George Clinton; I saw him briefly in the dressing room before the show and I mentioned that for my encore, I was doing a song, 'Hot Sauce,' which I co-wrote with him. So later on, I was playing it, and suddenly I heard this very strange sound; it turned out that George had wandered on stage, spotted my ambient mic which is just an SM58, picked it up and started wailing into it! I was hearing him very loud and the audience couldn't hear him at all, so I had to quickly sweep that away from him and replace it with a radio mic."

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