RE: [Harp-L] re: shaker mic/cherub

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been told tight-cupping a vocal mic is a recipe for feed-back
unless the mic is turned down or re-eq'd, so perhaps those latter two
things are the limiting factors. I forgot to add that. Or perhaps is
this also an issue of whether the vocal mic is going direct into the PA
(as is the usual case) or being used by a harp player as vocal and input
to an amp that is configured for it. So I guess the moral is, if you're
going to use a great vocal mic like the Shure that Jimmy recommended,
make sure it's set up so it won't feed back. If you're going up on stage
to join a number or set with a band, don't grab that vocal mic and
tight-cup or you're likely to get feedback.

Bill Hines
Hershey, PA

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre [mailto:plavio@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:58 AM
To: Bill Hines; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] re: shaker mic/cherub


> But you can't tight-cup a vocal mic, and this is a vocal mic, right?

Why not?

I've seen a lot of great blues players play in a tight-cup (not sure how

tight it is, but seems tight to me) using vocal mics (ex: fat Wireless),
its 
absolutely no problem for them. Sure if you want to sound like LW or Rod

Piazza you need more than a vocal mic. But otherwise the sound is 95%
from 
the player and the amp does most of the rest (breakup and overtones
etc.).

Feel free to correct me, but I think mics like bullets, biscuits and
JT-30s 
etc. are used mainly to add color (for example JT-30's sound nasaly) to
the 
sound and for their dynamic performance not to add crunch and
distortion.

Pierre.