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26.08.2008 - Wedemark, Germany

Disney´s Demi Lovato Joins Sennheiser Endorsers the Jonas Brothers World-wide “Burning Up Tour”

Demi Lovato hits the road this summer following her co-starring role with the Jonas Brothers in “Camp Rock,” the highly anticipated Disney Channel original movie that debuted to nearly nine million viewers in late June. The Texas-born singer-songwriter and actress will star in her own Disney Channel series, “Welcome to Mollywood,” beginning in September. But before that, Lovato is accompanying the Sennheiser-endorsed Jonas Brothers on their massive “Burning Up Tour,” which kicked off in Canada on July 4th. That tour follows some warm-up dates of her own, giving Lovato an opportunity to get acquainted with her Sennheiser wireless and wired equipment.
 

Demi Lovato hits the road this summer with the Jonas Brothers and their massive “Burning Up Tour,” with her wireless Sennheiser SKM 945 G2 vocal microphone in hand. (Photo Credit: Rob Hoffman for Jonas Brothers)

Lovato is using a handheld wireless Sennheiser SKM 945 G2 vocal micro-phone, while three members of her backing band are providing background vocals through e 945 wired mics according to Gary Westman, Lovato’s front-of-house engineer and tour manager. Lovato’s microphone has been perform-ing very well under difficult conditions. “There is a ramp that goes way out into the center of the audience and Demi gets out there in front of the PA. The crowd is deafening. With the screaming girls you have to have that PA just soaring, but I can get her vocal up over the audience and the music, no problem,” he says. Monitor engineer Kyle Ronan is looking after several channels of RF guitar pick-ups, in addition to Lovato’s wireless mic, which are being picked up by an EM 550 G2 receiver. “I’m using one side of an EM 550 G2 for her acoustic guitar and then on the other side of that unit I have her electric guitar,” he says. One of the two guitar players in her band — which also includes a bass player and a drummer — uses his own ew 100 wireless pick-up system, adds Ronan. The wireless vocal and guitar signals all pass through an ASA 3000 active antenna splitter system.   The entire band plus immediate crew are on evolution wireless ew 300 IEM G2 monitor

systems, reports Ronan. “I have six stereo mixes,one for Demi, the four band guys, plus my stageguy, so he can hear exactly what’s going on. I have eight belt-pack receivers: those six, plus one for me to hear Demi’s mix, and her security guard who also listens to her mix.” The eight feeds are sent via an AC 3000 active antenna combiner to an A 5000 CP circularly polarized antenna.
 

Adds Westman, “Between us and the Jonas Brothers we must have a couple dozen wireless units, for strings, instruments and ears. And there’s no cross-bleed, so it’s all good.”
 

The “Burning Up Tour,” which kicked off in Toronto, Ontario on July 4th, includes three consecutive nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden, two nights at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, and is currently scheduled to continue through September 5th. By the end of the tour, Demi Lovato will have been seen by many thousands of fans. Demi Lovato’s first album is set to be released on Hollywood Records this fall.
 

The Sennheiser Group, with its headquarters in Wedemark near Hanover, Germany, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems. The family-owned company, which was established in 1945, recorded sales of over € 395 million in 2007, 83% of which were generated abroad. Sennheiser employs almost 2,000 people worldwide, around 55% of whom are in Germany. Sennheiser has manufacturing plants in Germany, Ireland and the USA and is represented worldwide by subsidiaries in France, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark (Nordic), Russia, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Japan, China, Canada, Mexico and the USA, as well as by long-term trading partners in many other countries. Also part of the Sennheiser Group are Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin (studio microphones), K + H Vertriebs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Klein + Hummel studio monitors, installed sound) and the joint venture Sennheiser Communications A/S (headsets for PCs, offices and call centres).

 
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