Vocal Microphones, what are you using?

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, Phil Starr said:

The only word of warning is that for people playing instruments a super-cardioid like the AKG's demands really good discipline on the mic. Even slightly off axis and the sound fades away quite dramatically and you really need to 'eat the mic'

 

I had a TcHelicon MP85, which I thought went with my voice better than anything, but watching videos, I move my head slightly and it goes completely, so now I just use a behringer copy of something.

[Stub Mandrel]

7 hours ago, Al Krow said:

 

We've just sacked SM58s from our band!

 

Had a couple of gigs recently where we struggled with taming feedback during the first set but switching over from SM58s to the more directional AKG D7 eliminated the issue and we had a much better band performance in the second set when we and the audience weren't on edge because of feedback creeping in. A fellow bass-player & BL I know well has said he's recently done the same thing in getting rid of SM58s in favour of sE V7s in his band, which while not quite matching the D7 for overall quality, come in at half the price at £75 and also provide a big improvement over the SM58 in terms of feedback performance.

 

I did a quick test of the difference the mics made at the break and the AKG D7 gave us an additional +6dB headroom before feedback kicked in! The two singers in our line-up with SM58s are swapping over to either the AKG D7 or sE V7 depending on their budget.

 

 

 

One band the vocalist (who has a huge complex pa) is paranoid about drum spill and says the sm58 isn't directional enough to set a noise gate low enough. But he'll provide a supercardiod in future.

 

Other band, main vocalist uses a Senheisser but the rest of uscare fine with SM58s. I suspect their reputation is somewhat soiled by poor copies.