Re: [Harp-L] Stick/ball mic of choice...

["steve" <mudharp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Rick,The reason for the bullet style is how comfortable it is to hold for harmonica playing whether it's a brand new or 70 year old shell.    The reason for "vintage" is most of  the elements were much stronger or in other words they had more "bite" for harmonica playing.  There are a relatively few "new" mics made today that have these characteristics.   And today they don't make Controlled Reluctance, hot crystal or ceramic elements and the newer Shure Controlled Magnetic and dynamic Green Bullet elements are fairly weak. steve--- On Fri 01/06, Conrad Gleich < radconradlleyire@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:From: Conrad Gleich [mailto: radconradlleyire@xxxxxxxxx]To: dsiekmann@xxxxxxxxxxx, Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:50:46 -0800 (PST)Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Stick/ball mic of choice...--- Rick & Dana Siekmann wrote:"Just wondering if there's any kind of concensushere. Most of the harp mic talk seems to focus onbullet styles, with a preference toward vintage. But is 
there any one stick mic that stands out headand shoulders above the rest? SM57, perhaps?My amplified journey is just beginning, and I'mlooking for direction."fyii find a ball mic much easyer to hold than a stickmic.a shure sm58 is the old standby. i like my beta 58.there are many reasonably priced vocal mics from manymanufacturers to choose from, such as shure,sennheiser, electrovoice,audix,et.al.for use w/ an amp a dynamic mic will probably workbetter than a condenser.__________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com _______________________________________________Harp-L is sponsored by SPAH, http://www.spah.orgHarp-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx://harp-l.org/mailman/listinfo/harp-l

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