Hilltop Hoods use the following Shure products:
| Shure UHF-R Wireless Systems | Shure UHF-R Wireless Systems master the high pressure and extreme conditions of any large-scale touring or installation environment. |
| Shure Beta 58 | This vocal mic accentuates the warmth and clarity of lead and backup vocals. Extremely smooth extended frequency response. Its supercardioid design provides maximum isolation from other onstage sounds. |
| Shure M44-7 DJ Cartridges | Engineered for scratch DJ's and turntablists, the M44-7 is designed not to skip under even the most demanding circumstances. |
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Biography
The Hilltop Hoods are perhaps best known for their live shows and after hundreds of performances across the nation the band's reputation has grown upon the strength of these gigs.
Adelaide’s finest musical exports are firmly established as the torchbearers for the Australian hip hop scene. Comprising of MC Suffa, Pressure and DJ Debris, the band combines warm, jazz and funk-tinged beats with powerful and witty rhymes.
Having always been fans of Shure products, MC Suffa and Pressure were excited to receive their new Shure wireless microphone systems with Beta87 capsules.
“We’ve just used them at the Splendour in the Grass festival and they were great!” exclaimed DJ Debris. “We had a lot of friends in the crowd who reported that our vocals were really clear and they could understand everything that was said. We found that the Beta87 capsules gave us a clearer top end, not so muffled, and it seems to suit our voices a lot better. The transmitters seemed to handle the loud levels well without feedback.”
Choice of microphone is extremely important for a band that spends a lot of time rapping; there’s a lot more dialogue to be understood by the crowd and so they need a very comprehensible microphone to translate it.
“As the Shure Beta87 capsule has the mesh on the top flattened off, you can get your mouth closer to the capsule itself so the words get captured a lot more clearly,” added DJ Debris.
Rapping and stage strutting go hand in hand and since switching to the Wireless Microphone Systems, Pressure and Suffa have been able to deliver a much more dynamic show to their audience. Now they can cover the stage without fear of tripping over microphone leads.
As the band is hip hop they just have the DJ mixer output and the three microphones with the vocals compressed on stage.
“Everything is calibrated, turn the faders up to zero and everything is mixed perfectly,” explained DJ Debris. “All the signals are processed on stage with all the instrumentals mastered.”
DJ Debris has also been using the Shure Phono Cartridge and DJ Needle citing it as the recognised worldwide leader in high-performance cartridges.
Hilltop Hoods Choose Shure Microphones
July 2009
We are pleased to announce that Australia’s premier hip hop crew, the Hilltop Hoods have resigned as Shure endorsees, hot on the tail of their newly released “State of the Art” album, which debuted at number 1 on the ARIA chart and was simultaneously certified Gold.
These guys have always been Shure fans and have been using Shure microphones since 2005. Suffa & Pressure enjoy the Beta 58 and their UR wireless systems, which supply quality sound for both performer and audiences, while DJ Debris is a fan of the Shure M447 cartridges.
