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No collar mikes?

A question to the technical and sound engineer wizards: do vocalists still have to depend on the pole and ball mike covering part of (sometime full if the mikes are more in number) the artist’s face? Collar mikes are being used in lectures as it helps the person to move around and speak. In television interviews also such mikes are in vogue. Why have the vocalists not been provided such mikes?

And the sponsors are…

Sponsorship is big deal these days, what with their names prominently displayed not only in the invitation and programme brochures but on the stage where performances are held. In most of the cases they rob the stage décor of all aesthetics standing out as crude distractions. More the number of sponsors smaller the letters become. What purpose does it serve when a dozen names are printed in micro-mini font size for a program sponsored by a total of 28 companies? And does the size of the letters in anyway related to the size of the sponsorship?

(Contributed by G. Swaminathan)

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