I had originally posted this information in the technical portion of the Bose forum here. But I’m curious if any of you have experimented with a single mic and in particular, maybe this one? I play in an acoustic duo and also solo and I’m wondering if it might be a good way to try to amplify some acoustic sound for my guitar and banjos with vocal. Since it’s a condenser, I have feedback concerns.
I’ve often wondered about having a microphone that would pick up my acoustic guitar sound along with my vocal and I was wondering if this mic might work.
It is a condenser microphone so I’m wondering if it will be feedback prone with the Compact. It claims to be feedback resistant but then, most of these microphones claim that don’t they?
http://www.eartrumpetlabs.com/…/microphones/louise/
Here’s an article on condensers and feedback and how he claims to have designed a condenser not prone to feedback:
http://www.eartrumpetlabs.com/…ensers-for-live-use/
We sing 3 or 4 of us behind a large diaphragm mic without feedback issues. We keep the mic plenty hot as well. We dont however put it right behind us, usually off to the side a little.
I cant find a pic so heres a video:
http://youtu.be/DB8SVTcCV6Y
Hi opusthe2nd,
From what I could see in your video and this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkf_NbILx0
You stay pretty close to that microphone.
Yes, the son especially with the low stuff. At times he thinks he’s still using a big sub where he would make walls rattle, lol! Me, I can afford to be aways a bit. I figure we’d close up space and eliminate the possibility for feedback. That mic is a hypercardioid, so putting the L1 off to the side helps a lot.
Hi Wayne,
I tried a bunch of microphones around here. It’s clear that I’ve gotten too accustomed to having independent control of the volume for my vocal and my guitar.
I’m not a strummer so I don’t get a much volume out of the guitar. Neither am I a loud singer. No matter where I position a single microphone I can’t get a good balance until I have the microphone at least 24-30" away. At that distance there’s not enough gain-before-feedback for me to really hear the L1® for monitoring. I know that is actually louder and carries farther than being unamplified but I can’t hear it.
Trying to manage the balance of the sound while I couldn’t really hear the L1® was distracting.
quote:Originally posted by captbanjo:
I’m wondering if it might be a good way to try to amplify some acoustic sound for my guitar and banjos
When I first read this, I though - I could never sing loud enough to be heard over a banjo. About getting some acoustic sound …
I know a road-warrior performer who uses pickups in his guitars but he also has a vocal mic on a boom at guitar level.
The gain on the microphone is low enough that you don’t really hear anything from it until he brings the guitar in close. He performs standing up and he swings and swoops in on the microphone like a bird of prey, never quite making contact. He gets all kinds of great tonal enhancements depending on the position, angle, and distance.