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Mic for female singer - recommendations please
We have a female singer in our 5 pce covers band,
mostly 50's to 89's with some later stuff by Pink,
Gaga etc thrown in for good ( read bad )
measure.
She is a strongly built Polynesian lass who belts
out a song at high volume, and for those of you
who have not experienced Polynesian singers, think
of Hawaiian or Afro-American singers with a strong
voice.
Her current mic is a Shure Beta58A.
We have problems with boom, particularly in the
mids, which is hard to get rid of and the other
lead singer has trouble adjusting his in ear
monitor because of the huge difference in volume
when she sings into this mic. I have it on good
authority this is really not a female singer's mic
and a better replacement suggestion has been the
EV N/D367s. The singer is currently taking singer
breathing lessons as she struggles to maintain
breath after a couple of sets.
I need to set her up with a more approriate mic,
seeing the Beta 58A is not ideal.
What is the recommendation of you guys in the know
please?
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Re: Mic for female singer - recommendations please
4/11/2011 10:43 PM
Jeff Foertsch (544) wrote:
A few more points I thought of....as I was writing, but didn't want to have a page long post.
Have you tried a simple solution to have her step back a couple inches from the mic as she sings?
If she's singing with that much power, she really doesn't need to eat the mic, to be heard. (put the mic on a stand have her sing normally, then have her step back and sing the same thing over)
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Re: Mic for female singer - recommendations please
4/12/2011 2:28 AM
Maurice Carr (36802) wrote:
Her mic technique does need a lot of work to improve
I think, so yes, good point.
Thanks
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Re: Mic for female singer - recommendations please
4/12/2011 4:40 PM
Ken Richardson (1322) wrote:
I wondered if you were using one of those foam windscreens. That might make her back off to the point that things improve.
We almost always used those on mics back when I worked in radio.
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Re: Mic for female singer - recommendations please
4/11/2011 11:48 PM
Craig Ditchfield (8256) wrote:
I have used a Shure SM57 for vocals before with success. I am lead to believe they are not really a vocal mic??? (we used it for snare drum originally) But it worked well for us.
Gumby
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Re: Mic for female singer - recommendations please
4/14/2011 4:20 PM
Lesa McCabe (60419) wrote:
I have a Shure Beta 58A...I also have a strong voice...I use a yellow wind screen...that helps
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Re: Mic for female singer - recommendations please
4/14/2011 8:56 PM
Maurice Carr (36802) wrote:
What do you think the wind screen does? I wonder if it is an aid to set the distance your lips are away from the mic head so that it's consistent.
I've run some tests on the Beta58A - the difference with just a little distance chance is HUGE!
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Re: Mic for female singer - recommendations please
4/15/2011 8:25 AM
Ken Richardson (1322) wrote:
I think the windscreen prompts people to not get tooo close to the mic, and that helps a bit.
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Re: Mic for female singer - recommendations please
4/15/2011 11:56 AM
Dave Magaro (20517) wrote:
Those are pop filters. I was never a big fan of them. Moving closer to the mike you get proximity effect. An experienced singer uses this to their benefit. Proximity effect is somewhere around 200Hz. The singer has to work the mike. That's all part of singing live. So, just moving closer to the mike you can give your voice more balls. When someone is doing a high falsetto scream they need to back off. Working the mike.... ya gotta work the mike.
Dave
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