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Audio-Technica Mic Deaf Havana Tour
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ith a recently sold out
headline UK tour under their
belts and an appearance on the
Reading and Leeds main stages
conﬁ rmed, British rockers Deaf
Havana continue to build on the
reputation they've built as one of
the UK's most exciting young acts.
Front of House Engineer Ben
Hammond has long relied on
Audio-Technica microphones,
M50 headphones and Allen &
Heath's iLive mixing system to
deliver the band's brand of classic
rock'n'roll attitude, and ﬁlmed a
video interview with the company
at London's Clapham Grand venue.
Hammond explains his choice
and use of Audio-Technica mics
including the following across the
Deaf Havana backline:
AT M 2 5 0 D E d u a l - e l e m e n t
dynamic/condenser (drums);
AE2500 cardioid dual-element
dynamic/condenser (guitars);
AT4050 stereo condenser (guitars);
AE5400 cardioid condenser
(lead vocal);
AE4100 cardioid dynamic (vocals);
ATM610a hypercardioid dynamic
(choir vocals).

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Ben Hammond, FoH Engineer

In the interview Hammond says:
"The 2500s are a big staple of mine
- pretty much on every guitar that
I mix. They are such a great time
saver. You can literally throw them
at a guitar cabinet at a festival
and you have your two feeds
instantly, perfectly in phase, they
sound stunning."
"The change on this tour is that
we are doing Chris Pennells' guitar
in stereo. He does a lot of the
soundscape things and plays a lot
of quiet clean. While the other boys
are playing the chords or the lead
he is playing a lot of the sprinkle
on top. So we use a lot of stereo
delays with Chris so we have two
cabs in stereo and we have 4050s

Rising band of British rockers Deaf Havana

on those and it's amazing," he says.
In addition, Hammond talks
about the ease with which the
Allen & Heath iLive surface and
iDR MixRack have ﬁtted into his
workﬂow over the last four years.
His impressions of the newly
updated Audio-Technica M50x
headphones for mix checking were:
"On ﬁrst count they looked really

cool" but he was impressed with
the isolation they provided when
he wanted to check the miking or
the mix from the desk under heavy
PA gig conditions. "With these
they literally remove you from the
gig," he said.
The video interview with Ben
Hammond is live on the AudioTechnica YouTube channel.

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