Micing my voice and harmonica...

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I'm trying to come up with an easy way to get a good sound from my harmonica on stage, but I can't hold a mic, and I need to be near a vocal mic, since I switch between vocals and the harmonica rather quickly sometimes... The way I do it now, through my vocal mic, it works, but doesn't have the sound I would like... I'm actually considering the orange crush (naiant.com) sitting right under my vocal mic, or possibly even fastened to my neck holder somehow... Any other suggestions? I'll also be playing guitar during all this, just fyi.
 
I was gonna say Orange Crunch, too!

I'm looking forward to a review of that mic.
 
nukeitout said:
I'm trying to come up with an easy way to get a good sound from my harmonica on stage, but I can't hold a mic, and I need to be near a vocal mic, since I switch between vocals and the harmonica rather quickly sometimes... The way I do it now, through my vocal mic, it works, but doesn't have the sound I would like... I'm actually considering the orange crush (naiant.com) sitting right under my vocal mic, or possibly even fastened to my neck holder somehow... Any other suggestions? I'll also be playing guitar during all this, just fyi.
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Wondering if you could fix the orange crush to the other side of the harmonica rack somehow? That'd be cool.
 
I was hoping to find a solution with the gear i have, but the crush looks sooo tempting :)
 
Isn't it just a distiortion pedal in a mic tho? I could just get a similar dist pedal and mod it to work on a mic, right? I tried my art tube mp on a regular mic... It only distored the low tones, and not the highs :(. I also tried to go from the art tube mp as a DI box into a distortion pedal, but that didn't work so well, either... Maybe I'm just doing something wrong. I just started playing harmonica, so I don't have any tricks up my sleeve...
 
nukeitout said:
Isn't it just a distiortion pedal in a mic tho? I could just get a similar dist pedal and mod it to work on a mic, right? I tried my art tube mp on a regular mic... It only distored the low tones, and not the highs :(. I also tried to go from the art tube mp as a DI box into a distortion pedal, but that didn't work so well, either... Maybe I'm just doing something wrong. I just started playing harmonica, so I don't have any tricks up my sleeve...
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I think a distortion pedal is a very high impedance input, much higher than microphones like.
 
Didn't Joe Satriani use distortion on his harmonica part in Big Bad Moon?
 
apl said:
I think a distortion pedal is a very high impedance input, much higher than microphones like.
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Unless it's a crsytal mic. Old EVs are wonderful harp mics, you may have to pny up $50 for a Spherex buy oh my, what a harp mic. Even makes me sound good.
 
hungovermorning said:
Unless it's a crsytal mic. Old EVs are wonderful harp mics, you may have to pny up $50 for a Spherex buy oh my, what a harp mic. Even makes me sound good.
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They sure look cool... Saw a couple for around $100... A low impedance mic is a good Idea. I have one here somewhere. I might run that one through a stomp box and see what it does.

Thanks!
 
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