Do I need two mics (one for bass and one for other stuff?)

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I'm looking into micing my bass amp instead of running the mic line directly out of the balanced mic out to the mixer.

So can I use a vocal mic to mic acoustic guitars, harmonicas, and other instruments or do I need to buy a mic for each frequency range?

each would be recorded seperate at seperate times, not as a band but on individual tracks one at a time.

thanks.
 
Hi,
It depends on what the mic is.
I think most would argue that a mic is a mic. Some are better suited to certain tasks but you certainly wouldn't need to buy a mic per instrument.

Say a particular dynamic mic only extend as high as 11 or 12k, you may not want to use that as a vocal mic, but then again you might!

If, for example, your mic is a big dynamic like sm7b/re20/md421, I'd happily use that for bass then vocals afterwards.
D112? Maybe not so much.
 
Right you are Paul.
One could add a few more to that same list ..... The EV RE20 and the Sennheiser MK4 or MD 421 11 are a few.
 
Oops ... Looking around the shop here I missed the EV RE320!
 
Steenamaroo said:
Hi,
It depends on what the mic is.
I think most would argue that a mic is a mic. Some are better suited to certain tasks but you certainly wouldn't need to buy a mic per instrument.

Say a particular dynamic mic only extend as high as 11 or 12k, you may not want to use that as a vocal mic, but then again you might!

If, for example, your mic is a big dynamic like sm7b/re20/md421, I'd happily use that for bass then vocals afterwards.
D112? Maybe not so much.
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ok, thanks. I'll give my voice mic a try.
 
I often mic bass cabs with LDC's, usually an AKG C4000b, but you could use almost any LDC. You can also get good results from an SM57 or similar mic. While it's always nice to have specialised mics for every application it is also expensive, why don't you try your vocal mic on the bass cab and see what it sounds like? In fact I often try all kinds of mics on all kinds of instruments, often with surprising results.

Alan.
 
witzendoz said:
I often mic bass cabs with LDC's, usually an AKG C4000b, but you could use almost any LDC. You can also get good results from an SM57 or similar mic. While it's always nice to have specialised mics for every application it is also expensive, why don't you try your vocal mic on the bass cab and see what it sounds like? In fact I often try all kinds of mics on all kinds of instruments, often with surprising results.

Alan.
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ok, thanks. I'll give it a shot.
 
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