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

[Gary Bond <garybond@xxxxxxx>]

I use a 545 and my experience says that the tighter you cup it the less 
feedback you get. In fact with the small head on a 545/sm57 you get a 
larger air chamber to compress the air in. This is very handy because it 
is much easier to compress the air in a large chamber as it is in a 
small chamber, and it can be compress in degrees rather than all on or 
all off with a bullet. The problem with these mics is that with the head 
shape the way it is it is hard to hold on to with out the risk of it 
falling out the bottom of your hands which would be embarrassing. The 
solution that I came up with is to take a short/narrow cable tie and 
loop it through the finger of a leather glove that has be cut off at 
both ends to make a tube then loop the cable tie  around the notch on 
the head of my 545. I can now stick my baby finger through the tube and 
the mic now sits safely at the very bottom of my hand. This creates a 
very large air chamber, I can go all the way from tight cup (which these 
mics just love) to acoustic by opening my hand which with the mic now 
anchored to my baby finger is safely possible. Makes for alot of 
possibilities.


Priest, Jim wrote:

> > > But you can't tight-cup a vocal mic
> > >      
>
> Says who ? A lot of people manage, including Paul Butterfield who used a
> Shure 545, another "vocal" mic. Rob Paparozzi has described the SM57 as
> his "mic of choice". It's just a matter of working out a method of
> holding it. Personally I find with the harp in your left hand you can
> hold the mic by wrapping the bottom two fingers around it just below the
> grill and then fold your right hand around to create the seal. I do have
> large hands though.
>
> Jim
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