strumsilly
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looking for a microphone for group singing and playing. any suggestions ?
thanks all. I should have been more specific. it's for a children's group singing live at my church, going into a PA. need one mike because it has to be set up and taken down quickly.
thanks all. I should have been more specific. it's for a children's group singing live at my church, going into a PA. need one mike because it has to be set up and taken down quickly.
Tripping Lily uses a single mic for the whole band and it sounds fantastic. Wonder what type it is?
It is a custom built mic. It uses a Rode housing with a Neuman element.
Feedback squeals are a fact of life as long as there are stage monitors--I even mentioned the problem in my previous post. But "more prone to feedback" is not the same as "will for sure feed back."Anything wide enough to comfortably pick up multiple performers is going to be more prone to feedback.
Feedback squeals are a fact of life as long as there are stage monitors--I even mentioned the problem in my previous post. But "more prone to feedback" is not the same as "will for sure feed back."
The simplest solution? Remove the monitors from the equation, remove the feedback. (There are other ways to do this but they take some pre-thought and/or a decent sound person willing to tweak a bit during sound check.)
It's not always possible to remove the monitors (playing somewhere with their own sound system and/or and inflexible sound man or playing a huge room that needs the extra volume springs to mind). But you can tell the sound person to turn the monitors OFF during your set.
Now you have to listen to each other and play as an ensemble. The bonus here is that you make better music that way.
Del Rey and others are all happily using one mike (or possibly as much as two when the band grows to 5 or 6 members) and they're doing fine. Hell, everybody before WWII used one mike!
Ukulele players (with certain notable exceptions) aren't rock acts, they're acoustic acts. Further, they're--again, in the main--not playing huge rooms, so they don't need to crank it way up and use monitors just to hear themselves above the roar.
If you've just spent somewhere in the high-three figures to low four figures for a beautiful ukulele, chock full of resonant, woody tone, subtle dynamics, etc. why would you want to mix it like it was a cheap plank of an electric guitar?
reads like more of a "support and extend" of my rant. probably not going to get upset. ;-)Sorry, but I have to go on a rant of my own here...
yep. and I'd love to have you as my sound guy all the time. I do get great sound guys (and gals), and pretty often too. but I also play with oddball burlesque shows in punk rock venues. guess how the sound guy is going to mix that?. . .feedback squeals are not and should not be a fact of life, even with monitors. The problem is that there is a lot of crappy gear out there and a lot of crappy sound people with no training beyond "I have a subscription to EQ magazine" or "no one else volunteered to do it." With a properly chosen microphone and some judicious use of equalization, you can get a whole lot of gain before feedback--enough for a rock band and therefore more than enough for a group of people playing acoustic instruments.
again, no argument. but the reality is if you're trying to go out and scrape up a living with the whole musicianer silliness, you need to plan for all different situations.If the sound person isn't willing to tweak during sound check, he or she should be replaced. What is his or her job if not to tweak?
of course! all the more reason not to mix your instrument like a cheap plank. ;-). . .keep in mind there are plenty of electric guitars that rise above the level of "cheap plank" as well.