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Microphones for live gigs

I'm going to get the Samson BD mic as recommended here tomorrow and then maybe those ultra cheap Behringer C2s - it'll always be handy to have some back ups just in case. I might take a look at that Electro-Voice C09 as an additional vocal/brass mic too seeing as I'll shortly have 16 - count 'em ' channels to play with! :)

Next needed investment: a second self powered foldback monitor, methinks.
 
editor said:
Well, that might work if the musicians sat in the same place as the soundcheck and didn't all start playing at different volumes!
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No PA will ever fix that. Keep an eye on the guitarist's volume setting during soundcheck and if they fiddle with it get the fucker to turn down. Otherwise you'll be maxing the vocals to keep up and then in turn they'll just themselves up again. Discipline verging on fascism is what is needed.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
I've done a couple of shows on an 01v and hated every minute of it - studio desks just don't cut it for live use IMO. The proper yamaha live desks are good though, I'm slowly (very slowly) starting to come round to the idea of digital :DD
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01vs are shit anyway for the most part. I'm still not massively convinced by the new versions but have found them fine for live.
 
(the spending continues....)

I need 3x DI boxes for the gig on the 12th April and the budget is loooooooow. What's available in the bargain basement price range? Are there any bundled 3x packs to be had?
 
pk said:
You can buy the kits and make them yourself for next to nothing, if you've time and a soldering iron.
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Got the latter but really short of the former. And those diagrams are way beyond my meagre understanding!
 
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, as its 5am and I didn't read the 2 previous pages, don't know why not, not like I have anything else to do.

You could think about triggers for the bass drum, less trouble with bleed noise, less trouble setting up levels, cleaner and easier to control and no chance of any feedback.

Our drummer uses triggers on Bass drums and Toms I think, just to bring them up to match the the very loud snare sound he creates.

This is how our drummer sounds with triggers....as you can hear he is much louder then everyone else.
 
Triggers are a great idea if you have a competent drummer who knows his sampler well! I had the displeasure of doing a Swedish metal band who had a trigger set-up with a sampler based backing track as well. Should have been great but the drummer didn`t know how any of it worked and just expected me ( poor stage hand !) to sort it all out in 2 minutes flat...grrrrrr.
Only ever had 1 drummer so far switch samples through a gig to go from " loose" kick and snare sounds to a " tighter" kit for different songs...sounded ace!
Oh and it means they`re usually in tune as well! Hoorah!

.p.
 
So, I'm running out of all-purpose secondary vocal/horn mics and the Shure SM58s are feeling just a little out of my price range.
Any suggestions?
 
editor said:
So, I'm running out of all-purpose secondary vocal/horn mics and the Shure SM58s are feeling just a little out of my price range.
Any suggestions?
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Several weeks later and my need is getting a bit more urgent. Anyone got any suggestions?

How about some of the Audio Technica mics? Worth a go or false economy?
 
AT have a good reputation for studio mics but I've never used any of their stuff in a live context.

I'd scrape the cash together for SM57/58s if you possibly can. There's a reason they're to be found on every stage worldwide...
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
AT have a good reputation for studio mics but I've never used any of their stuff in a live context.

I'd scrape the cash together for SM57/58s if you possibly can. There's a reason they're to be found on every stage worldwide...
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And they're durable too....in the long run you probably save.
By the way bees do you know somewhere that sells the metal grills on the top of the 57/58s cheap? Damn things start to smell after a while and also look crap once they've had a bounce or two.
And if you ever hear of a cheap source for Betas... In a small room they're a bonus.
 
twisted said:
By the way bees do you know somewhere that sells the metal grills on the top of the 57/58s cheap?
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I'd contact Shure UK directly and ask them...



And if you ever hear of a cheap source for Betas... In a small room they're a bonus.
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Andertons seems to have them for 90 quid, which is as cheap as I've ever seen them unless you're buying in bulk. Anything less than that and it's almost certainly a fake.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
They are very, very good. Maybe not quite as Hammer substitute” build quality as a 58, but they work really week on a wide range of voices.

Never use betas, they sound awful.
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Cheers. The other suggestion I had was EV ND96 but they're £100 more. They look solid but no one I know has used them on a daily basis doing three bands in a venue per night so not sure how sturdy they are.
Fed up with Sennheisers dying so will get a couple of these V7s.
We still have SM58s of course and Behringers for karaoke but nice to have some other options.
Thanks! Off to Anderton's site now :)
 
If you're on a mega, mega-tight budget, here's a really chip mic that - apparently - is pretty useable with a bit of EQ tweaking. The Behringer XM8500 costs just £14!



 
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