DPA Captures Kyteman Orchestra

Front of House engineer Sjoerd Terpstra selected DPA mics to capture the Kyteman Orchestra when they played six concerts at the Utrecht Tivoli in Holland recently.

"Our aim was to create a library of completely original Kyteman material," Sjoerd Terpstra says. "None of the songs were written in advance – they were all improvised on the spot."
Founded by Colin Benders (aka Kyteman), the Kyteman Orchestra plays a mixture of hip-hop, opera and jazz laced with melodies and raw beats.
Sjoerd Terpstra, who has been working with Kyteman for the last five years, said: "There are approximately 18 musicians in the orchestra. We used a lot of DPA d:vote 4099™ Instrument Microphones on strings and horns, a d:dicate 2011A on the drums and percussion and a set of d:screet 4061 Miniature Microphones on the upright piano because they sound amazing, especially at low noise levels. One of the snare drums initially gave me a lot of trouble because it was so low pitched and I just couldn’t get it to sound right, but eventually I used another d:vote 4099 and then it sounded great. The d:vote could handle the low pitch well and gave me enough 'snap' to make it cut in the mix."

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