Live Mic for Trumpet and Vocals

[BRX rad]

Hey guys, I'm looking for a mic that I can use live for both trumpet and vocals. Currently I'm using a Sennheiser e845s as a vocal mic, but I'm not sure if it can handle trumpet live or not.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[BRX rad]

Anyone? Bump

[mattr]

The Sennheiser live vocal mics can handle fairly high SPLs and should be fine for trumpet. If you want to use it for both trumpet and vocals (and the trumpet is much louder than the vocals) then you might want to run it through a compressor and sqaush the trumpet levels down a bit. Very technical terms

[Waffleness]

What about an 865? Thats the same sort of thing as to what you have already been using, but is a condensor. Extended frequency response. Fairly cheapish.

a sennheiser 421 would be alright as well

[noisedude]

I played in a band with a female lead singer/trumpet player for years. We mostly used an E845 or occasionally an E835 so you'll be fine. The trumpet sounded slightly less harsh through an SM58 but her voice didn't sound as good so we stuck with the Sennheisers. You'll be fine with what you've got IMO.

[BRX rad]

Originally Posted by noisedude

I played in a band with a female lead singer/trumpet player for years. We mostly used an E845 or occasionally an E835 so you'll be fine. The trumpet sounded slightly less harsh through an SM58 but her voice didn't sound as good so we stuck with the Sennheisers. You'll be fine with what you've got IMO.

Thanks sounds good!

[fraserhutch]

AKG C535EB works great for me live.

http://www.akg.com/site/products/pow...nguage,EN.html

[Mr Blues]

What about the Shure beta 57a.

Fantastic on vocals as well as instruments.

Can also handle high spl's.

Very good mic.

I prefer it to the vocal mic Beta 58a.

Dave

[lbird2]

Maynard Ferguson used a beta 58. If it was good enough for Maynard...