JEWEL IS "PERFECTLY CLEAR" FOR TOUR

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Jewel, a contemporary folk, pop and country singer/songwriter, renowned for
her crystalline voice, finds her long-time favorite Neumann KMS 105
microphone "Perfectly Clear."
(PHOTO CREDIT: (c) 2008 FilmMagic)

JEWEL IS "PERFECTLY CLEAR" FOR TOUR

OLD LYME, CONNECTICUT - JULY 2008: Painter, poet and singer-songwriter,
Jewel is back in the spotlight, promoting a new country music album,
"Perfectly Clear," and hitting the road for a lengthy U.S. tour with Brad
Paisley following some TV promotion, including appearances on "The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Jewel, who was famously
discovered while performing solo in the coffee shops of San Diego, first
adopted Neumann's KMS 105 on her 2006 tour with matchbox 20 singer Rob
Thomas, and is once again using the wired vocal mic with her new five-piece
band.

"It's a vocal mic that can handle not only her dynamic range but also her
vocal range," comments Jewel's front-of-house engineer, Curt Jenkins, who
has been monitor engineer/production manager for country superstars Big &
Rich for some time, and also worked on Alabama's farewell tour. "We have
access to the stage thrust, with Brad Paisley, so when she goes to walk out
into the audience we toss her a Sennheiser SKM 935 G2 wireless mic which is
extremely stable in front of the PA."

"I know the 105 because I've used it with her for three years. It works well
with her," confirms monitor engineer Adrian Silverstein, who has previously
worked with the Goo Goo Dolls, Five for Fighting, and John Mayer. The
onstage mic complement also includes Sennheiser e 935 wired vocal mics for
the bass player - the main background singer - and the keyboard player. A
guitar player and drummer plus a multi-instrumentalist handling pedal steel,
mandolin and banjo complete the band lineup.

Silverstein reports that he is generating wireless personal monitor mixes
for everyone but the drummer and keyboard player. "The whole band is on G2
monitors - I don't use anything else," he says. "It makes my job too
difficult to try to use anything else. The G2 stuff is so solid. I know from
my cue pack that what I'm sending out is what they're hearing.

Jewel's summer tour with Brad Paisley of amphitheaters and similarly sized
venues began in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 11th and currently runs
through late October. For more information on Jewel visit www.jeweljk.com.

SENNHEISER
Sennheiser is a world-leading manufacturer of microphones, headphones and
wireless transmission systems. Established in 1945 in Wedemark, Germany,
Sennheiser is now a global brand represented in sixty countries around the
world through long-term distribution partners and subsidiaries in France,
UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, Hong Kong, India, Singapore,
Japan, China, Canada, Mexico and the USA. Sennheiser’s technology is
produced in manufacturing plants in Germany, Ireland and the United States
of America. Their pioneering excellence in technology has rewarded the
company with numerous awards and accolades including an Emmy, a Grammy, and
the Scientific and Engineering Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences.

The Sennheiser Group is proud to be affiliated with Georg Neumann (Technical
Grammy(r) award-winning studio microphones), Klein and Hummel (studio
monitors) and the joint venture Sennheiser Communications that brings their
award-winning technology to headsets for PCs, offices and call centers.

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