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Why do singers put their mouths against microphones?
Scott Dorsey wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote: Apart from the hygiene aspects, why do so many singers have their mouths right up against the microphones when they sing? 1. Because they are unskilled and have not learned proper microphone technique. 2. Because they are used to using horrible PA systems that are being run on the edge of feedback and need all the gain they can get. In general, not a sign of a competent vocalist, but some people just won't stop eating the microphone. A good solution for microphone-eaters is to give them a fake microphone to sing into and then a narrow pattern mike six inches away to actually use. I tried that at a folk festival. The singer refused to continue with the show until I had turned on the front mic - then she could hear the P.A. was working because of all the pops and bangs coming back at her from the back wall of the room. -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk |
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Why do singers put their mouths against microphones?
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 3:35:58 PM UTC-4, Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
then she could hear the P.A. was working because of all the pops and bangs coming back at her from the back wall of the room. -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ ________________ ? ? ? What was going on behind that back wall, knife-throwing contests? -CC |
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Why do singers put their mouths against microphones?
Mxsmanic wrote:
Scott Dorsey writes: No, he was perfect. Ninety years old with perfect hearing? He was lucky, then, especially for a musician. Oh, I have no idea if he could hear at all. But his timing and balance was perfect. He was with a 50-piece band after all, and when you're Cab Calloway, the conductor follows you. And he was, with no PA, louder than a full orchestra. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Why do singers put their mouths against microphones?
Scott Dorsey writes:
Oh, I have no idea if he could hear at all. But his timing and balance was perfect. He was with a 50-piece band after all, and when you're Cab Calloway, the conductor follows you. Here's the effect that hearing Cab Calloway again had on an elderly man in a nursing home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ |
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Why do singers put their mouths against microphones?
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On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 3:35:58 PM UTC-4, Adrian Tuddenham wrote: then she could hear the P.A. was working because of all the pops and bangs coming back at her from the back wall of the room. -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ ________________ ? ? ? What was going on behind that back wall, knife-throwing contests? She was so habituated to bad P.A. that she didn't believe the system was working unless she could hear the reflection from the back wall of the pops and bangs she was creating by getting too close to the mic. -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk |
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Why do singers put their mouths against microphones?
Mxsmanic wrote:
Scott Dorsey writes: Oh, I have no idea if he could hear at all. But his timing and balance was perfect. He was with a 50-piece band after all, and when you're Cab Calloway, the conductor follows you. Here's the effect that hearing Cab Calloway again had on an elderly man in a nursing home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ Hmmmmmmm... That one looks familiar. Like one I just posted here the other day. smh ---Jeff |
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Why do singers put their mouths against microphones?
In article , Jeff Henig wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote: Scott Dorsey writes: Oh, I have no idea if he could hear at all. But his timing and balance was perfect. He was with a 50-piece band after all, and when you're Cab Calloway, the conductor follows you. Here's the effect that hearing Cab Calloway again had on an elderly man in a nursing home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ Hmmmmmmm... That one looks familiar. Like one I just posted here the other day. I hadn't seen it. But then again, that's the effect Cab Calloway has on everyone. Here, try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kioZ-wTPC9I --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Why do singers put their mouths against microphones?
Jeff Henig writes:
Hmmmmmmm... That one looks familiar. Like one I just posted here the other day. It's entirely possible that I saw the link here. I can't remember where it came from. But I posted it just in case. |
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Why do singers put their mouths against microphones?
Scott Dorsey writes:
I hadn't seen it. But then again, that's the effect Cab Calloway has on everyone. Here, try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kioZ-wTPC9I Amazing ... that was around 1980, I think, so he would have been in his 70s. |
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Why do singers put their mouths against microphones?
On Friday, April 13, 2012 3:14:04 PM UTC-4, Neill Massello wrote:
Mxsmanic .com wrote: Apart from the hygiene aspects, why do so many singers have their mouths right up against the microphones when they sing? It's a habit they pick up from all those "auditions". __________ And performers of certain genres do it for looks! They hold the mic by the pop screen ball and press it against their lips as they sing/spit into it, whilst their other hand is jabbing into the sky at every beat. -CC |
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