• American pop-rockers Passion Pit have been touring with Muse this Autumn
• Tour manager Andrew Dobbins and monitor engineer Francois Pare – of Cato Music spec Shure PSM900 as in-ear-monitoring system  
• The sound quality and revolutionary new features make life easier for the crew
• The Shure PSM900 is suitable for use now and after the 2012 Digital Switchover. 

""Before the tour we were looking to try something new – mainly because we weren't very happy with the system we were using at the time. We were getting a lot of interference and the sound quality wasn't great. I'd heard about this new Shure system so I thought I'd try them on a tour that started back in April. We didn't really know what to expect, but we were so blown away by them that we've now got seven systems."

"the hardest thing with the PSM900 is knowing if they're actually switched on. They're so clean and so crisp that they almost feel as if they have a gate on them. There's complete isolation and just… nothing!"

"As tour manager I'm walking around the building a lot, and I'm always hooked up – I've always got at least one in-ear in so if a serious issue arises then we all know what's going on right away. If you're not in direct line of sight you're going to drop out of signal, but with the PSM900s the range and the lack of drop out is fantastic. And I love that when it does actually drop out you don't get the 'squeak' that you used to get. There's none of that, it just drops out. It's really fantastic."

"There's a lot of stuff that's available that won't work after 2012. In fact, I know someone who's just bought a whole load of gear that they're going to have to scrap because it just won't work after 2012."

"So comparing life before and after the PSM900s is like comparing night and day. And this is the feedback we're getting from the band as well. Now we spend our time talking about the /lack/ of issues! With PSM900 I genuinely think Shure has built a fantastic product. And compared to the competition, well… it's just a vastly superior system. We're completely over the moon with them. We love them!"
 

Andrew Dobbins, Tour Manager

"For a start there's the new 'Cue' mode, which is brilliant. Now I can actually check all of the frequencies and cue up everyone's mix, and all from the same pack. So in minutes you've checked everyone's mixes with no fuss. And I rarely get interference now – even to the point where I've stopped walking it. With some other systems we've used I'd spend an hour trying to get some frequencies that are clean… and you'd just get nothing, you know? But with the PSM900s I just scan it and it quickly tells me that a frequency is available and that it's nice and clean."

"I also like that you can just turn off the RF. You don't have to turn off the whole system, you just turn off the RF so you're not interfering with anyone else's wireless systems."

Francios Pare, Monitor Engineer

Download the full text press release Shure's CH.38 Ready In-ears on tour with Passion Pit as PDF Version.

• Visit Passion Pit's MySpace
• Cato Music 
• CH.38 Ready PSM900

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