Microphone in live sound

In live sound you will have different microphones and microphone techniques to use during performing and recording. this is because different microphones are made to pick up different frequencies more thasn others. you have a different microphone set up for drums thanyou would for vocals or acoustic electric guitar.

Vocals- you would use a condenser microphone because this has a wider range or dynamic range and wider range of frequencies. We use a DR80C Roland condenser microphone. Things about this microphone which makes it good for vocals in recording mainly, (this is still classed as live sound.)

Pad Switch for adjusting to high inputs

Low-Cut Switch for eliminating undesired low frequencies

Low-noise and high-input durability, plus wide dynamic range structure

This is good because yet can be adjusted. This makes it more reliable to record the right sound made by a singer. Also the decibel levels.

Another microphone you can use for a vocalist on stage is a

Shure SM58 Dynamic Cardioid Vocal Microphone.

This is because it isolates the main source sound. This is goo because it allows your voice to be heard and cutting out the background noise making it more clear and pure. The structure of the microphone is to ensure that it isn’t going to break any time soon. It is a shock mount system to ensure that it lasts for years rather than not that long. Microphones like these are expensive and having to replace them will cost money overtime, so that they are made in this manor makes it more reliable than having to replace it every so many years. This also helps when we have someone using it that respects your stuff rather than breaking thing. This will ensure that it will last longer and perform at the best quality that it can.

Drums - when making up a drum kit, you have to know the technique best for your drum kit or at least a couple for variety. You will also have to consider the condenser or a dynamic microphone. For a drum kit you would mainly use a

"The TX-2 is specially designed for low frequency use such as kick drum, or bass instrument. Similar in application to a Shure SM52 at a fraction of the cost."

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Using these microphones is because a kick drum makes a very low sounding and bassey noise. If you were to have a microphone that picked up higher frequencies then you wouldn’t get the correct sound needed for a kick drum. so using a microphone suitable for the bass and low frequency you can get the most pure sound to how it actually sounds rather than just picking up high frequencies.

To pick up the high hats and toms and the symbols you would use a wider range microphone to pick up low mid and high frequencies. This is because all drum kits can sound different very slightly. This could be from the age or just how they are made which would also determine the sound they create. The microphone you would use for these things is the Shure SM57. This is because the range of this microphone is more likely to pick up the whole sound of the snare or toms or the other parts of the drum kits. Using the SM52 would not be suitable because that is more likely going to just pick up the low sounds rather than the whole range. So to pick up the low mid and high frequency range you would use the SM57 for these parts of the drum kit.

You would also have to consider the microphone technique as you want to pick up everything from the drum kit not just the overall sound.

I would recommend the Glyn johns methods because you capture mostly the individual parts of the drum kit, so when you record it you can then also change the sound of each part to suit what sound you want to go for. This will also be changed by the genre of music. Maybe you use an electrical created drum beat rather than a pre-recorded or performed drum take.

Electric Guitar - you get many types of guitars. The general electric guitar however I don’t think you would use a microphone for. You would just generally use the jack to jack cable and an amp and then a microphone for the amp to make the sound more clear, or just the sound from the amp when performing live. This goes the same for the bass guitar. However you would use a microphone to record/pick up the sound of an electric acoustic guitar. I would recommend a condenser microphone for the electric acoustic guitar and when recording with a di box the recording from the microphone is more likely to record/pick up the lower frequencies. The sound from the di box will sound crisper so recording with a microphone will give you all different sounds from that guitar which you can also edit after the track is recorded. Or that you can change the levels while playing live with the control deck.

MICROPHONE STANDS

What are the different types of microphone stands can be used during live sound performances?

You can use this microphone stand and put it on a table and use it that way. This is usually used in a studio for live radio or for the control room to communicate with the person in the recording booth.

this is good because then the microphone will not be rolling around on the table while on a live radio broadcast but then the bad side is if somebody hits the table, even the slightest bit there is the possibility that the microphone is going to pick that up, but it shouldn’t be too noticeable or questionable.​

This is a microphone that your can adjust to the high and angle needed for the performer. You can have it really small for short people, or you can adjust it for the person that is slightly or a lot taller than the other person or the average person.

The same applies to this as I have written above. This is easy to knock, however the tripod standing position helps to make sure that the microphone stand will not topple over at any point. This is the same for any other equipment.

This is a normal straight and sturdy, microphone stand. You use this to perform in big gigs. This is more malleable. You can take it around to different venues

this has an adjustable screw type part in which allows you to loosen it and then move the top half of the mic stand up or down depending on the height of the person or the thing being detected by the microphone, and then after adjustments have been made then you can just tighten it.

Polar patterns in microphones.

Polar patterns are also really important, because of feedback. A cardioid patterned microphone such as a SM57n and SM 58. These are mainly used for vocals and they are good because they do not pick up sound from the back of the microphone, so this will stop feedback from a monitor in front of the performer on stage. This is why the SM58 and SM57 are used during live performance.

A Shure SM58 microphone is used in live sound because its cardioid pick-up pattern is resistant to feedback. This is goo ceuase it makes the performance more professional.

This is also another reason that certain microphones are better for certain instruments.

Frequency response?

frequency response is the dependence on signal frequency of the output–input ratio of an amplifier or other device.

The frequency response is the output level or sensitivity of a microphone over its operating range from lowest to highest frequencies.

you can get a Flat frequency response

and a

Tailored frequency response