On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:23:17 -0400, Hal Laurent wrote:

I don't follow your logic here. Do you put your microphones in your mouth?
Or lick them? Where is the health hazard? And even if you do kinky things
with your microphones, how long are germs going to live on a metal
microphone grill?

Don't even get me started on how modern children get shielded from germs so
much that I don't know how they're supposed to build up antibodies...

You don't have to be deep-throating a microphone and simultaneously
tonguing its shaft and playing with the cable to come into close oral
contact with it. I'd venture to say that tonight on late night television
you will be exposed to musical acts who literally have their mouths on the
microphones and are not doing anything that could be considered remotely
abnormal or kinky.

I'm sure you realize by know that I am talking about performance mics, but
I'll reassert that point.

I'm also sure we can all remember back to elementary school when we
learned that germs like to grow in dark, damp places. Now, I've never
lived inside a microphone grill, but I can imagine that it is fairly dark
in there. I do know that germas and bacteria are small enough to pass
through that grill... even through the inner filter, which conveniently
traps moisture from breath and sweat. This sounds disturbingly like a
growth medium to me, but you can take your chances.

- dsb


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