Mic for daughter

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AGCurry said:
I have a video compilation of live Beatles performances. Hands down, the sound is best from a show where they were singing through MD421s.
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If I spend that much on a mic, it had better work for me as a vocal mic, unless it's just an incredible acoustic guitar or upright bass mic, like there's nothing else in it's league. And if it requires that much finesse to work it as a vocal mic, then it ain't gonna be for me. :o
 
Ok. She got the mic. The first comment I got was "my other mic sounds better. I can just barely hear the new mic but my Nova is loud." Its an M-Audio Nova, the $99 one. Trouble is... she's using an M-Audio Fast Track Pro to record with at home with a built in pre with about 40db of gain. Not nearly enough for the M88.

Comment after the first live show: " the new mic did awesome!" I went to Dallas weekend before last to hear her. The mic did what I wanted. The band commented that now you could hear her above the mix no matter what. However, as some here stated, there's a little problem with muddiness on the bottom end when she's right on the mic. She can even hear it in the monitors and commented on it. So...she's learning to "work the mic."

For live use, the band uses a Mackie VLZ (16...?) mixer, not sure what kind of power amp. I'm thinking the pres in the Mackie (and possibly some other components) aren't that great and limit what the mic can actually do. So...I'm toying with the idea of getting her a nice external pre with a lot of clean gain to take to her gigs. She could bypass (well, at least mostly override) the Mackie pre. I'd say a Grace Design 101 Ribbon would be good for this and should help take care of some of the low-end mud. Should even further sharpen up her space in the live mix too? What do you think? Would take care of the gain problem for her home recording too.

Anyway, both of us are pretty pleased with the M88. Thanks for the help.

Any of you guys/girls in the Dallas area check out Random Circumstance if you get a chance. They rocked the house at Wilhoites in Grapevine. They'll be back there in August I think. If I may say so myself, hopefully without too much bias since the lead singer's my daughter, they do a pretty good job as a cover/dance band and they're starting to do some original stuff as well. Jenny, my daughter, actually sang much better than I was expecting. Never heard her sing before, strange as that may sound. I really don't care for the bar atmosphere any more but they have to play somewhere, I guess.

rock on
 
Oh, and following up on the fashion show comments above, she had a great dilemma over the boots she was going to wear to the gig. The ones she had worn before hurt her feet but she was going to have to wear them anyway. I told her to get some SAS's or some tennis shoes and she was like...."oh dad, get real."

So it's a good thing I didn't get her no ugly mic. :D
 
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