Re: Need help on Vocal Mic Selection Female Soul Singer Lead Vocalist
Totally get that, and if the question had been what to do to upgrade the system I'd have suggested a pair of px/tx218, a dc-one and some decent amps.
From a system building point of view, when building from scratch, one can either specify the best overall system for a given budget, or one can specify a functional system with some holes to be filled later. Such an incremental build system might not at any one time be the best system that could have been built for the amount of money spent, but might provide the best upgrade path without rendering previous investments prematurely worthless. Microphones can be a very long term investment, I've got a couple that is thirty and fourty years old. If each new investment becomes the strongest link in the chain, with quality that surpasses everything else, that investment(equipment) is then likely to have a long period of usability before it becomes due for replacement (due to quality concerns). Investing in equipment that is par with the overall level of the rig will not represent an actual or potential improvement, and will not move you forward.
Sometimes a par purchase is necessary to achieve the quantity needed, like not being able to justify 20 choir mikes at $500 each, 20 mikes at $150 each gives me better results than getting 7 mikes at $500 and making the singers share. Once the amount of equipment required to handle the job is acquired, it then makes sense to make single upgrades in terms of priority, either based on replacing broken/worn stuff with significant upgrades or occasionally, when one has the opportunity to offload stuff at a good price, replacing functional stuff with significant upgrades. It would be great if one could build a totally balanced system and then sprinkle a few hundred $ worth of fertilizer every now and then when the wallet allows, but alas.....
