mic choice for an odd application

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I've only tried this at home, seems like works so I'm going to try it tonight at a gig:

It's sort a poor man's in-ear monitor system. I'll be setting an sm57 out in front of the band, facing the band. Run the mic to a crate powerblock, with an alesis 3630 comprssor in the effects loop, and then use the headphone out with my Etymotic earbuds. I'm hoping this will save my already battered ears from more damage and provide me with decent monitoring sound.

My question is; what would be a good choice for a relatively inexpensive mic for this application.

Note: We only run vocals through the PA so feeding my earbuds from the monitor buss isn't an option.

Bill
 
you could try the msh-10's, but they are phantom-powered so you would need a mic pre in there too. i think they would work perfect sonically though, and at $19 a pop why not? they are also very discrete so you could probably hang it over the band from the ceiling or something and not have anyone notice its even there. hope this helps!
 
Thanks for the suggestion, I just put one in the shopping cart over at Naiant. I'll wait a while before pulling the trigger and see if other suggestions come up, but the MSH-1O definitely looks worth trying. I have some other condensers at home, I was hoping to avoid phantom power, but if I have to I can bring my mackie mixer instead of the powerblock. Do you think the MSH-1O would perform better than my condensers: AT-3035, Rode NT-3, MXL 603s ?

Bill
 
I think this the wrong approach. Why not use the monitor send from the PA, even if it's vocal only? The stage volume is usually sufficient for other instruments, just only use a bud in one ear.

At a minimum I would run the house mic into the PA for monitor send only, and mix that with the vocal mic in the monitor mix.
 
Thanks for the input Mshilarious, but:

One bud in the ear isn't going to work for me, I'm trying to protect both ears.

We're using a really old, small powered mixer, the house mic through the board and out the monitor buss idea isn't going to work due to it's design limitations.


Bill
 
Tillamook said:
Thanks for the input Mshilarious, but:

One bud in the ear isn't going to work for me, I'm trying to protect both ears.

We're using a really old, small powered mixer, the house mic through the board and out the monitor buss idea isn't going to work due to it's design limitations.


Bill
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Well then your results are totally dependent on how good the house mix is at the point where you put the mic. I will say that my mics are flat-response omnis which means lots of bass, which could overload earbuds pretty quick. Try the MXL before you spend any money.
 
Thanks, mshilarious:

I tried it with the Rode Sunday night, worked pretty well, I'll try the MXL next time.


Bill
 
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