Sennheiser and P!NK Team Up for Grammys Performance

P!NK performs at the 56th annual GRAMMY Awards, singing through a customized Sennheiser headset

Hosted for the third time by LL Cool J, the 56th annual Grammy awards were telecast live from the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles in January, drawing over than 28.5 million viewers around the world. One of the most dramatic performances came from P!NK, which included high-flying. For the duration of her aerial segment, she used a custom earpiece with an integrated boom microphone built to specification by Sennheiser – the result of a highly collaborative project that helped her engineers achieve all the technical aspects required by the performance.

“There is so much physicality in P!NK’s show with her spinning and flying around that we needed a reliable microphone and IEM that sounded great and would be as unobtrusive as possible,” commented Jon Lewis, monitor engineer for P!NK. “So Sennheiser worked with our engineer Horst Hartmann to create a custom design and integrate the microphone with the earpiece, providing both stability and stellar audio. The earpiece features a single driver which provides plenty of definition without any significant ear fatigue.” The microphone features a Sennheiser HSP 4 capsule with a cardioid polar pattern. Following the aerial performance, P!NK switched to a Sennheiser SKM 2000 transmitter coupled with a custom MD 9235 capsule.

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