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[David Allred]

For the national anthem, the small riser had a pair of JBL boxes for monitors.  Reasons for this over wireless IEM for such a limited performance. 
RF issues in a dome? Possibly related to the coms used by the teams, presidential security, latency, etc?

[Jean-Pierre Coetzee]

I'm in South Africa so have no reference for what was setup but would think it is just much easier to throw track and a mic into two wedges then having to set an IEM mix for someone, specifically if you don't know who is going to be doing the singing?

[David Allred]

I'm in South Africa so have no reference for what was setup but would think it is just much easier to throw track and a mic into two wedges then having to set an IEM mix for someone, specifically if you don't know who is going to be doing the singing?

Is was a solo female singing a cappella.  Pretty sure the provider had all the info.  Stage size (iirc 6x8, maybe 8x12) and a single mic on a stand.  On the 50 at the numbers, so speaker cable probably ran 90-100 ft.

[Russell Ault]

For the national anthem, the small riser had a pair of JBL boxes for monitors.  Reasons for this over wireless IEM for such a limited performance. 
RF issues in a dome? Possibly related to the coms used by the teams, presidential security, latency, etc?

I didn't work on the show, but there's no reason I know of that they couldn't have used IEMs (I would guess that there were a lot of other people on that field at the time wearing either IEMs or IFBs). I can think of a few reasons why wedges might have been the better option, though:

• Wired is always more reliable than wireless
• ...as evidenced by the wired backup mic sitting on the riser between the wedges (so they were going to run a cable out there anyway)
• Major broadcast football games can have over 150 channels of UHF RF to coordinate, so cutting one is always a good thing
• Wedges typically can get to "good enough" a lot faster than IEMs (especially for an unaccompanied soloist), so soundcheck can be a short as possible

-Russ

[John L Nobile]

Some people don't like IEM's and are perfectly happy with wedges.

[Dave Garoutte]

On a ball field, you won't be dealing with 'stage' volume or problematic feedback.

[Eric Snodgrass]

If the artist doesn't want to wear IEMs then they get wedges. 

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