GRAMMY Awards Show Uses Audio-Technica Microphones for 15th Straight Year

	Mike Love of The Beach Boys performed at the 54th Annual GRAMMYs.

For the 15th year in a row, Audio-Technica microphones appeared on GRAMMY Awards Show. This year, the 54th Annual Grammys, held February 12, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, featured a wide selection of artists from various genres of music. For the live show and broadcast, Audio-Technica supplied over 250 of its acclaimed microphones, including an impressive array of hard-wired mics and Artist Elite 5000 Series UHF wireless systems.

The sound system was provided by ATK AudioTek with front-of-house engineers Ron Reaves and Mikael Stewart, with the house audio supervised by Leslie Ann Jones, a prominent member of the Producers and Engineers Wing of The Recording Academy. New Jersey/California-based remote facilities company M3 (Music Mix Mobile) were onsite with their Eclipse and Horizon trucks to create the music mix, facilitated by broadcast music mixers John Harris and Eric Schilling, while Tom Holmes was responsible for the overall broadcast mix. The broadcast audio was supervised by Phil Ramone and Hank Neuberger, also leading members of The Recording Academy Producers and Engineers Wing. Michael Abbott returned as audio coordinator, and M3's Joel Singer served as engineer-in-charge for the Eclipse broadcast mix truck, while M3's Mark Linett served as engineer-in-charge in the offline Horizon remix truck.

For the home audience, CBS once again delivered the most advanced form of HDTV, with 1,080 lines of picture resolution and 5.1-channel surround sound. To meet the sonic demands of this format, the audio engineers and music mixers employed a wide range of Audio-Technica microphones for the Grammy Awards.

Artists who performed throughout the evening using Audio-Technica's Artist Elite 5000 Series UHF wireless system included Audio-Technica endorser Jason Aldean and The Beach Boys. Aldean performed using wireless AEW-T6100 hypercardioid dynamic handheld transmitters for his lead vocals, and The Beach Boys used a combination of AEW-T5400 cardioid condenser microphone/transmitters and AEW-T6100 units for their vocals.