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Post by Pistol Pete on Dec 3, 2013 15:22:39 GMT -5
Forgive me if this has been done before....but I'd be interested in learning what all you harp players are using microphone wise.
I've recently grown to love my Hohner Blues Blaster, a mic I didn't get on with when I first got it. It sat in my box of mics as a spare for over a year whilst I used a Superlux D112, which at the time I felt was better because of it's thicker & warmer tone & the fact it was possible to get some distortion on it without a wall of feedback.
After a period of living with the spare through necessity, I got a new Superlux and found it horrible and muddy and lacking 'edge'.
So what are you guys using at the moment & why do you like it?
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Post by sarge on Dec 3, 2013 21:34:11 GMT -5
The only mic I've used is a bottle of blues mic and a little finger mic. I really don't know much about mics.
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Post by dadfad on Dec 4, 2013 10:23:49 GMT -5
My present electric-harp mic (don't play much electric any more but when I do...) is an old WWII tank microphone with an Astatic crystal, I cut the handle off and added a volume-control. Prior to that for years I used an Astatic crystal I took out of an old police-car radio microphone. (I bought a box of them for twenty bucks at a police auction!) For the shell I used half of one of those little plastic Easter eggs that come apart to put candy in, etc. I'd lined it with aluminum-foil for shielding and put a volume-control on it. Not a bad hand-held at all. I'd also tried using a little ring-mic I'd made out of an old cassette-recorder mic mounted on a plastic ring I cut off of a piece of PVC pipe for awhile, but the Astatic tank-mic I concocted is what I like best.
For acoustic (and that's generally using a rack while playing guitar) I just use an old SM-55. Another great "find." I bought four of them for five dollars each about twenty years ago at a local Baptist church's yard-sale when they cleaned out their basement. I tried rack mounted harps with varying degrees of success, but finally just settled for playing into a good mic.
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Post by Pistol Pete on Dec 8, 2013 5:55:20 GMT -5
The only mic I've used is a bottle of blues mic and a little finger mic. I really don't know much about mics. I'm not sure you need to know much about them to have a favourite... The nearest vocal mic into the PA is also a perfectly valid approach and one that worked for the likes of Howlin' Wolf and SBWII.
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