On 12/29/2012 09:55 PM, Len Ovens wrote:...
- lead vocal (also da boss), Male, uses stand. sets the eq on the PA for
bass and highend up and midrange down (U shaped yuck)
problem identified :) solving it is beyond the realm of the technical and may necessitate the use of blunt instruments.
> but then the whole PA is set to his voice as he likes it.
- vocal three, female, classic trained.. hardly needs a mic at all but
has the Dixon I mentioned before... may as well be using a carbon pile
telephone handset.. lucky she doesn't need much reinforcement.
still - it's nice to have a decent mike on a good voice, where it will make a difference.
i honestly don't know why a 30-band eq lets you boost stuff. 99% of users would be much better off having an eq that only provides attenuation.
honestly, an omni mike won't help you. fons does have a point in saying that omni mikes have some advantages and could be put to good use outside the realm of classical recording, but until someone sorts out your lead singer problem, that's academic :)
get a mixer with two semi-parametric mids, problem solved. very decent ones are available nowadays at very low cost. a year ago, i got the club i work for to invest in a new board (an a&h gl 2800 for about 3k euros plus taxes, which is really negligible for a professional venue), and the musicians have been more than happy with it. a board with that feature set and sound quality would have been high in the five digits 15 years ago. nowadays, there's really no need (and no excuse) to work with inadequate mixers if you're serious about your music.
shotguns are not useful for music stages. they do have better side rejection in theory, but at the cost of a very irregular off-axis response. the few times i used shotguns in the theatre, i found they would give me even less gain before feedback than a standard supercardioid, and required insane filtering.
When I was in broadcast(80 to 85), the ENG guys had sennheiser shotguns.
They used them both camera mounted or hand held... the talking head could
hold the mic very low almost out of the picture.