Newbie Needs help!

[jr11]

Hi there. I recently bought a Sennheiser e835 microphone for my wife as a gift. I am wanting to find a compatable amplifier/speaker so that she can practice her singing at home. I have looked online unsuccessfully - one amp might be as good as another. Are there any suggestions? Also, I was having some issues with compatability from the Sennheiser mic cables to our old guitar amplifiers. I want to make sure I can get something she can actually use. Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

[ecc83]

Hi there. I recently bought a Sennheiser e835 microphone for my wife as a gift. I am wanting to find a compatable amplifier/speaker so that she can practice her singing at home. I have looked online unsuccessfully - one amp might be as good as another. Are there any suggestions? Also, I was having some issues with compatability from the Sennheiser mic cables to our old guitar amplifiers. I want to make sure I can get something she can actually use. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Trying to amplify a mic in a domestic envoirenment is very ill advised. She will be plagued with feedback and in anycase not get any idea of her actual performance.

I COULD understand her wanting to RECORD her voice for self criticism (as one 40+yrs married. NEVER give a negative opinion!) and that is a whole different ball game but one that we can help you with.

Guitar amplifiers are very badly suited to vocal PA but if you must you need to adapt XLR -XLR to mono jack and the best way is with a low to high Z transformer...
Microphone Transformer XLR to 1/4

Dave.

 

[mjbphotos]

You don't need a microphone to practice singing (but you do to practice microphone technique). If she wants to record herself so she can listen back to it, get an audio interface that will allow you to convert the signal to digital to send to your computer to record in a DAW (recording software).
And headphones.