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21/11/2014

Hawthorn Names DPA As Primary Mic Brand

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Hawthorn, the UK's largest independent supplier of technical production services, has named DPA as its primary microphone brand.

Established in 1987, the company employs over 120 staff from offices around the UK and handles over 1,000 events every year, including gala dinners, product launches, conferences and parties.

The company has invested €4.4m investment over the last two years, including on a range of DPA microphones such as the d:fine Headset mics, d:screet 4060 lavalier mics and d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones.

"It all started a few years ago when we were looking for headset microphones to replace the brand we had previously been using," says Jon Curnew, Hawthorn's Head of Sound. "We discovered the DPA d:fine Headset Microphone range and were immediately taken with the fact that they came with single and dual ear attachments. That really appealed to us because it made them so versatile. We now have a stock of about 35 d:fine microphones and we use them all the time. They are much easier to position than any other headset mic we have tried and our customers love them.

"Headsets are also better at picking up weaker voices because the microphone is positioned so close to the mouth and doesn't have to compete with background noise," Curnew says. "Once they are in place, they tend to stay in place – we even had a guy wearing one while he was doing aerobics and it managed to survive that."

For musicians, Hawthorn stocks DPA d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones and now has 17 in its microphone cupboard. The cmpany also recently added six DPA d:facto Vocal Microphones to its stock, which it bought from DPA's UK distributor Sound Network.

"We saw the d:facto Vocal Microphones at PLASA two years ago but we needed the right event to inspire us to buy some," Curnew says. "This turned out to be SunWalk in London's Battersea Park – a charity event raising money for breast cancer research, for which we delivered full technical production."

www.dpamicrophones.com

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