Never Pee On Electric Fences...

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Any engineers/producers out there know good "training methods" to keep the lead vocalist from swallowing the damn mic? I'm thinking of running an electric wire around the mic itself, just to keep the SOB from removing the pop filter (no, this doesn't work, he moves the damn thing mid-song). Unfortunately, I'm afraid this will add hum. Any suggestions?

Ideas: Baseball Bats
Blowgun with many blowdarts
Remote-Controlled Water Bucket above head (works well with electrified "fence")

I'm going to take a printed list of this forum and give it to him. If he don't back off, he becomes the labrat of our little experiment here.

More later...
 
Just tell him if he wants a good recording that he needs to stay consistant. If he has no self control, perhaps he is not professional enough to be in a studio.

I suppose you can just let him eat the mic the whole way through. Just reduce the gain and add some compression to compensate.... at leat it will be consistant.
 
But seriously folks, You might try putting up a popper stopper or a dummy mic and let him sing to that and have the "active" mic positioned to where he can't drool all over it. Or put 110 volts on the wind screen. Once his lips make contact with that he won't go there no more.
 
Swallowing the mic may be an indication that he can't hear himself, so TUrn up his headphone level. If that doesn't work have him take the headphones off one ear and sing like that.

Rev E
 
Rev E, gets award for best advise in a mic forum with in two hours! Yeah turn up the volume till it hurts, his punishment for putting humid breath all over those sensitive mics.

Layth
 
Put something greasy and snot-like on the mic and around the edges of the pop-filter.

Or, better yet... Duct-tape a dog turd to the side of the mic. That'll keep him back! :)


[This message has been edited by Buck62 (edited 06-14-2000).]
 
Hey Buck,
That reminds me of the joke about the old guy who put dog shit on his lips when they were chapped. It didn't help cure chapped lips, but it sure kept him from lickin' em.

PAPicker
 
How about some barbed wire between him and the mic? That oughtta keep him away!
 
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