[Scott Dorsey]

ChrisCoaster wrote:

And also speaking of close-miked: Do you have a technique for keeping
performers' lips off the microphones? LOL. I'm thinking about
dipping a few screens in deer or skunk scent. Seriously!

1. Get them monitors so they can hear what is really going on when they
get up close. 90% of the bad mike technique is a side effect of bad
monitoring (and sometimes many years of bad monitoring). And get the
backline levels down.

2. Yell at them in rehearsal a lot.

3. If all else fails, get one of the huge pop screens from Olsen, which
are about half a foot in diameter. You just plain cannot get close
enough to the mike to pop it.

4. Give them a crappy vocal mike and then put a 441 about a foot away.
Use the 441 feed in the mains. Note that this only works for groups
with sane backline levels.
--scott

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