It won't be insider politics that glances off the Whispering Gallery walls tonight during the 74th annual Capitol Caroling event.
Thanks to technological advances, a wireless microphone will capture the resonant echo of strings, brass, woodwinds and voices as they rise from the first-floor Rotunda to the fifth-floor ceiling.
From monstrous reel-to-reel tape to a tiny flash card - such evolutions in recording devices have been welcomed by Steve Morse and Dan Yeager, who have helped provide the sounds of Capitol Caroling to listeners for more than 20 years.