Michael C. Morgan
Audio Producer/Engineer
DPA Mics Help Provide Entrée to NPR Performance Today
Though he's had numerous live concert recordings broadcast on 90.7 WMFE-FM's weekly Central Florida in Concert series, only recently was the program's audio producer, Michael Morgan, able to capture the ears of National Public Radio's "Performance Today" engineers.
On May 18, 28 and 29, NPR broadcast two pieces with pianist Leon Bates that Morgan recorded in early March at The Bach Festival held in the 10,000 square foot great nave of Knowles Memorial Chapel on the campus of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. Morgan, who is also a freelance audio engineer and opera and recital vocalist, attributes at least part of the "break-through" success of his submission to Performance Today to his recent acquisition of a pair of DPA microphones: the DPA 3532-S stereo kit, consisting of two 4041-S solid-state large diaphragm mics.
"I had the opportunity to record Mendelssohn's Elijah, with full orchestra, chorus, and soloists," says Morgan, "a solo piano recital [Leon Bates], the Bach Double Piano Concerto, and one of the Bach Brandenburg Concertos. For all these recordings, I used the same pair of microphones - the DPA 3532-S. Try doing that with your favorite mic!"