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KT Tunstall
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Three years ago, KT Tunstall stepped out the front door of her flat in Harlesden, north-west London. She was off to work, and to play.
She didn't get to go home again until she'd recorded debut album Eye To The Telescope. Wowed the nation with her one-woman blues-stomp "Black Horse And The Cherry Tree" on Later... With Jools Holland. Toured the world a fair few times. Become a festival favourite from Glastonbury to T In The Park (and back again). Secured a Mercury Music Prize nomination. Outsold every other female artist in the UK in 2005 (bye bye Madonna, see ya Mariah). Won a Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist.
Won the Ivor Novello Best Song award for writing Suddenly I See. And a Q award for Track of the Year for "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree." Landed a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Lent her tunes to choice American films and TV shows (eg, "Suddenly I See," used in the opening scene of Meryl Streep flick "The Devil Wears Prada"). Watched her songs become staple audition material for contestants on American Idol. Found time (OK, it took a day and a half) to record and film her lo-fi "living room" album, Acoustic Extravaganza, live with her band on the Isle of Skye. Signed up for the GlobalCool campaign, which took her to Tony Blair's house in attempts to put pressure on the government to reduce carbon emissions. Sold almost four million copies of Eye To The Telescope, including over 1.5 million in the UK alone and over 1 million in America.
Then, after all that - the tours, the awards, the nightly mixing-it-up, KT Tunstall got to go home and put her feet up. For five minutes. She'd been working on, and with, and for, the tunes on Eye To The Telescope for so long that there was a backlog of new songs needing some attention. And if you'd worked as hard and as long as Tunstall had to secure a record deal in the first place, you wouldn't hang about either. It was time to work on her second album, a collection of thumping pop songs and intimate, oftern mysterious ballads that she's called Drastic Fantastic - a title that popped into her head as she was writing her journal on an aeroplane.
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SM58 Vocal Microphone Legendary Shure SM58® vocal microphone, tuned to accentuate the warmth and clarity of lead and back-up vocals. Consistently the first choice of performers everywhere. Cardioid, Dynamic. |
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PG58 Vocal Microphone | ||
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SM58 Vocal Microphone Legendary Shure SM58® vocal microphone, tuned to accentuate the warmth and clarity of lead and back-up vocals. Consistently the first choice of performers everywhere. Cardioid, Dynamic. |
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PG58 Vocal Microphone | ||
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Beta 52A Instrument Microphone Optimized for low-frequency bass punch and high-power SPL handling, the Beta 52A's supercardioid design provides maximum isolation from other onstage sounds. Designed specifically for kick drum and other bass instruments. Supercardioid, Dynamic. |
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PG52 Instrument Microphone | ||
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SM57 Instrument Microphone Multi-purpose Shure microphone with contoured frequency response for clean sound reproduction of amplified or acoustic instruments. Cardioid, Dynamic. |
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PG57 Instrument Microphone | ||
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Beta 98D/S The Beta 98, designed for toms, snares and percussion instruments, is perfect for sound reinforcement and recording. Its flexible gooseneck lets you position the microphone in practically any configuration. |
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SM57 Instrument Microphone | ||
| Hi-Hat | |
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KSM137 Studio Instrument Microphone The KSM137 is a versatile, durable, and precise single cardioid polar pattern microphone. An outstanding microphone for instruments ranging from percussion to wind, strings to brass, and piano to guitar. Cardiod, Condenser. |
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PG81 Instrument Microphone | ||
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KSM44 Studio Microphone Large dual-diaphragm, externally biased microphone with extremely low self-noise. Developed to meet the needs of studio recording musicians, tailored for vivid reproduction of voice for the most critical recordings. Multi-pattern, Condenser. |
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PG81 Instrument Microphone | ||
| Guitar Cabinet | |
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SM57 Instrument Microphone Multi-purpose Shure microphone with contoured frequency response for clean sound reproduction of amplified or acoustic instruments. Cardioid, Dynamic. |
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PG57 Instrument Microphone | ||
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PSM 700 Personal Monitor Systems Unsurpassed wireless monitoring for installations and touring sound. |
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PSM 200 Personal Monitor Systems | ||
