Vocal Mic for Drummer

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I'm trying to figure out the best way to get a mic to our drummer so he can sing backup on some songs.

I figure there's 2 ways to do it:

1) Mic on a stand near the drummer ala Don Henley/Hotel California. I know it can be done this way, but it seems to me that this would limit the range of motion of the drummer.

2) Headset mic. Shouldn't limit the drummer movement, but does make it look like he's either an air traffic controller or will be getting up and doing a dance number later.

What I'm wondering is: is there another way that I'm not thinking of that would make it easy for the drummer to sing backup without limiting his movement.

(I guess a boom-style mic is an option, but he could flail around and knock it away.)

Thanks!
 
Until Behringer comes out with their neural link anal implant those are pretty much the only options.
 
At a recent concert I went to, the drummer had a mic set up that he could move out of the way when he needed it, and then move it away when he didn't. Looked like it worked pretty well for him, you may want to try that.
 
Maybe a clip-on mic? I don't know how much bleed-thru you'll get though. I made my old drummer use a headset mic. It was actually pretty cool. Sevendust's drummer uses 'em too. They're not exactly a boy band either. As long as your guitar player doesn't use it you're cool. Otherwise he'll look like Garth Brooks.
 
Try putting a stand behind him with the shaft fully extended. then point the boom down toward his head and point a Sm58 at his pie hole at an angle becaues alot of heavy breathing will be amplified if hes forced to breath into it.
 
darrin_h2000 said:
Try putting a stand behind him with the shaft fully extended. then point the boom down toward his head and point a Sm58 at his pie hole at an angle becaues alot of heavy breathing will be amplified if hes forced to breath into it.
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I'm the singer and drummer in my band, and that's what I do with a boom, until I can get a headset. The only problem is no matter where I put the mic, I always get to much snare in there. I think the headset will help there.
My biggest problem is monitoring. It's a catch 22. The drums are killing my ears, But if I where ear plugs, I can't hear myself sing. Well, I can, but you know how it sounds when you plug your ears and talk. So, right now I'm more concerned with a personal ear monitoring system. The're spendy. Go for the headset.

T.J.Hooker:cool:
 
Here's the method I use. Put the stand behind the drummer, boom it over his head, attach a gooseneck to the boom to drop it in front of his face. You'll need a pretty heavy base for this to keep things in place, or use a tripod stand and throw some sort of weight on the base (road case, etc.). The cool part of this is that when the drummer is not singing, he can just swing the mic out of the way without losing the position and then just swing it back to sing. The other good thing about using a gooseneck with a boom is that the mic can be angled up slightly so that it picks up less snare.
 
i had one of those shure headset mics that costs around $120 new. It had horrible sound, so I took the element/diaphram out of a 58 and rigged it to the headset and that worked out pretty good.
 
Headsets are way, way more comfortable than goosenecks or stands for drummers, that way they can move the way they need to. The only drawback for me is sound, they (at least the shure models I have) are a lot "middier" than 58's, but with a little eq tweaking its done.

Both the drummer and my band and I (the guitarist, -not Garth Brooks, which fortunately is not well known here in Mexico-) :o use them and for me as a guitarist is great because I can concentrate in guitar playing and singing instead of having to reach out for my mic. ;)
 
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