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James B.
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My friend and I recently bought some random old equipment cheap ($100) from a garage sale. We got 2 AKG D310's (one with the windscreen bashed in a little, but it sounds okay), an EV TR420, a Sony EM-22P (sadly lacking a battery), and a Sony FM-99M (somewhat cheesy looking stereo dynamic mic, looks like it's more for field recordings / live recordings with cassete decks since it has left and right 1/8" outputs instead of XLR). We also got a Shure M67, old mic stands and a bunch of cables. Obviously we're not getting into super-professional quality audio here, but we wanted an improvement on our $10 radio shack mics (which really are about as bad as you can get).
Anyhow, how would we best use these mics? In our band we have vocals, bells (xylophones with metal keys, not handbells or church bells), a sweet old electric-acoustic organ (reeds amplified by pickups and tinny old speaker), a fair amount of upright piano (5 ft piano backed up against a 3 ft wall), cheap keyboards with 1/8" outputs (Concertmate 410 and 450), a really crappy snare drum, hand percussion (khartel bells, maracas), panpipes, recorder, trumpet, french horn, tuba, stomping, clapping, and fingersnapping; and we may get to use, through guest appearances, drum set and pretty much any of your standard wind band instruments (flute, clarinet, sax, trombone). So really any advice would be good, especially on mic placement and usage. I do know that if possible I should get the EM-22P to work, but it doesn't seem as though the M67 provides phantom power, and as you can probably guess, we don't have a huge budget for external phantom power units or batteries. In fact, I can't even figure out how to open the thing even if we did want to put in batteries (I can take the little windscreen off, but the chamber there doesn't seem convenient for batteries, and the rest of the microphone seems impossible to open). Besides that, I was really hoping someone would have some experience with the more unusual instruments (by which I mean "not in the faq"), like the bells, the stomping, the organ, panpipes, etc. I guess if not we can do experiments and write that part of the faq ;-) Anyway, if you want to hear the abysmal sound quality of our work, check out members.cox.net/thepalmtrees/downloads.html or http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-...tionid=spacesongs&collection=opensource_audio.
Anyhow, how would we best use these mics? In our band we have vocals, bells (xylophones with metal keys, not handbells or church bells), a sweet old electric-acoustic organ (reeds amplified by pickups and tinny old speaker), a fair amount of upright piano (5 ft piano backed up against a 3 ft wall), cheap keyboards with 1/8" outputs (Concertmate 410 and 450), a really crappy snare drum, hand percussion (khartel bells, maracas), panpipes, recorder, trumpet, french horn, tuba, stomping, clapping, and fingersnapping; and we may get to use, through guest appearances, drum set and pretty much any of your standard wind band instruments (flute, clarinet, sax, trombone). So really any advice would be good, especially on mic placement and usage. I do know that if possible I should get the EM-22P to work, but it doesn't seem as though the M67 provides phantom power, and as you can probably guess, we don't have a huge budget for external phantom power units or batteries. In fact, I can't even figure out how to open the thing even if we did want to put in batteries (I can take the little windscreen off, but the chamber there doesn't seem convenient for batteries, and the rest of the microphone seems impossible to open). Besides that, I was really hoping someone would have some experience with the more unusual instruments (by which I mean "not in the faq"), like the bells, the stomping, the organ, panpipes, etc. I guess if not we can do experiments and write that part of the faq ;-) Anyway, if you want to hear the abysmal sound quality of our work, check out members.cox.net/thepalmtrees/downloads.html or http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-...tionid=spacesongs&collection=opensource_audio.
