Electric Guitar Isolation

I just checked back through my archives and did not see any posts showing my guitar amplifier isolation case for our Worship Center Stage.  This is a case we packed on one of our trailers when we were portable. I reworked the inside of the cabinet and added some acoustic foam to help with the Isolation. I am able to put two combo amps in this case. I have a mic input, an input for the Radial SGI guitar interface, power, and a fan for each amp to keep things cool. Right now I have e609's on the amps. Check the photo.

Mic That Piano part 3

Well I got my Audio Technica ATM 450's in to try on the piano.  Let me just say they sound great. They fit right under the piano lid and look pretty cool, of course the lid is closed so except for this picture no one will really see them. They give a great over all piano sound, which is something I have been looking for lately. I have been using DPA 4061s but they just have not been cutting it with our current players. Our former Music minister Zach played a little heavier and the DPA's sounded great but they lost some of the natural sound with the lighter players we have now.  The AT mics did the job. I highly recommend these microphones and at half the price of the DPA's they are well worth the money.

New Drum Shield

Well we got our new Drum Shield. It is the Phoenix Slim from Whitley Solutions. I was looking for a seamless shield to replace our old Clear Sonic which we have had for about eleven years and was getting pretty banged up.  The new shield looks great and works great. This pic is from our first sound check with this beauty.

Sometimes it Helps to Think Outside the Box

It seems like everyone is moving to a Countryman E6 or other over the ear microphone for spoken word.  And why shouldn't you? They get greater gain before feedback and sound better than a microphone mounted clipped to a tie or coat.  The microphone stays in the proximity to the mouth instead of being to far away one minute and too close the next. Well what happens when you get resistance to the over the ear microphone craze. I had this problem with our teaching pastor Ryan Kelly. We had three issues: First he did not want to wear a "Brittney Spears" microphone. Second he did not like talking to people after services with the microphone on, and if he took it off it never went quite back where it belonged. Third they just did not stay on his head that well.  We tried single ear, double ear, DPA, Countryman, Audio Technica, Samson, but nothing stayed on his head. I really needed find something that would give me the constant microphone position I was looking for. Then one day it hit me! His glasses! I was using the Countryman EMW Omni Classic Lavalier, which I love because it sounds the most natural of the lavaliers I have tried in the past. It happens to be a flat microphone, and is just the width of Ryan's frames. I use two thin pieces of gaff tape to fasten the microphone to the glasses. The microphone is placed as close to the hinge as possible and taped just before the head of the microphone. The second piece of tape is placed just before the earpiece. I hope someday to have a second pair of glasses so we can just leave the microphone attached to the glasses. It only takes about 3 minutes to get the glasses wired up, so not a huge inconvenience. This method has solved all of the concerns we were having with the over ear microphones. His glasses fit his head, the microphone is always in the same spot if his glasses are on, he does not have to take it off to talk to people after service it is almost invisible even at normal conversation distance, and of course most important he does not feel like Brittany Spears. Below is a picture of the EMW microphone.