I have a bit of an on-stage problem I would like to tackle ......... possibly with the use of a specialist microphone?
I use a TC Helicon voice processor for some of the songs that we do live:
- to give vocal effects on a couple of songs
- to give hard pitch correction (T-Pain) style to one particular song and
- to autotune one particular high pitched song that can sound terrible if I get it wrong
Trouble is, the guitar sound can bleed though the PA - and end up having the effect added - with undesirable results.
We don't mic the guitar cabs up in any way, as we usually play small pubs and clubs - and only stick vocals through there.
Is there a specialist microphone - or some other procedure - that I could use which would minimise this issue of the guitar (and some of the drum sounds) coming through the PA with added effects?
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Making sure that the guitars aren't aimed direct at the vocal mic will help, too.
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Otherwise see the recent thread about singing drummers, although position of the sound source makes one heck of a difference (see the post above about pickup pattern).
With my big soul band I always laid my 2x12 on the floor in front of me like a monitor and miced it up. Made for a clean stage sound and neatly defined FOH sound.
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