Concealed CV228 Lipstick Camera Projects Live Imagery Above the Stage on Del Water Gap’s “Chasing the Chimera” Tour
Marshall Electronics continues to inspire creative production solutions in live performance environments. Massachusetts-based tour design company TERLECKI // DE JONG recently cleverly concealed a Marshall CV228 HD Lipstick Camera into a 1950s Electro-Voice 664 microphone to capture intimate live visuals for indie pop artist Del Water Gap’s “Chasing the Chimera” tour.
TERLECKI // DE JONG Co-founder, Designer and Creative Director, Maxwell Fitzgerald Terlecki, and his business partner, Travis Gunnar de Jong, specialize in designing immersive visual environments for touring artists. For the Del Water Gap tour, Terlecki sought a way to incorporate video elements without introducing a visible camera element that might disrupt the stage aesthetic.
“I bought a Marshall CV228 Lipstick Camera because it’s incredibly small and has a very low profile on stage,” says Terlecki. “People often mount them on mic stands, but I wanted to push it further and completely hide the camera inside the housing of a microphone.”
The camera was carefully installed inside the classic microphone, allowing it to be in plain sight while remaining virtually invisible to audiences. “From the audience perspective, all you see is what appears to be an ambient microphone on stage,” says Terlecki. “In reality, there’s a camera hidden inside of it, capturing the shot. It’s kind of hidden in plain view.”
