"These guys are all on wedges and side-fills. It's old school with everything set to 'stun'," said George Squiers, monitor engineer. "It is no-joke loud up there." Controversial frontman Fred Durst sings and raps into a Sennheiser SKM 2000 wireless transmitter with an MMD 935-1 cardioid capsule. The 935 successfully cuts through Limp Bizkit's often thick sound to put Durst out in front.
"As a monitor engineer, I have three requirements of a vocal mic," said Squiers. "I have to be able to make it loud, clean and stable. It was apparent the very first time I pulled the 935 up that it would perform flawlessly on all three counts with only minimal EQ. There were no problems then and there haven't been problems since." He reports the same qualities in the two wired Sennheiser e 945 super-cardioids used for backing vocals.
Drummer John Otto's kit features double bass drums, two snares, two hi-hats, and enough toms to balance the whole thing out. Squiers and FOH engineer Bryan Worthen agreed on an equally-sprawling Sennheiser evolution series microphone collection to capture them: paired e 901 and 902s deliver each bass drum; separate e 905s cover the snare tops with e 614s on snare bottoms; a bounty of clip-on e 904s capture the toms; and additional e 614s find the sweet sizzle in the hi-hats, ride, and crash cymbals.
(Jim Evans)
