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<blockquote data-quote="Eric Cagle" data-source="post: 83023" data-attributes="member: 277">Re: The SM58...Yea I know, but I am a libertarian at heart. The poor little sheep singers will sing through anything we give them so I guess we are going to have to be the ones to wake them up. I think we have done a pretty good job of getting the guys with in ears to carry their own mic kit, and even a console sometimes. You don&#039;t really think anyone other than sound engineers figured that one out do you? Ha Ha Ha, now that is funny! When I worked at the Masquerade in Atlanta I didn&#039;t even want to touch some of the gross vocal mics there......and people actually put their lips on them. Yuck! I do actually think we as engineers created this situation by wanting to control things like having a known quality for all the vocal mics, and for that matter all the other mics. In that taking responsability for the sound thing there most likely is a little control freak in all of us, I will speak for myself......There is. I will deaden the ringing on a Drum kit in a heartbeat and convince the drummer why they like it. It is for their own good and for the good of the band you know <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Yes the change will have to start with us, we have the power. I would really rather ALWAYS use my own vocal mics. I hate letting go but it really needs to be done. We already at least have our singers carrying their mics at a national level and I&#039;m am willing to bet it is most (if not all) of the BE&#039;s who are responsible for that. Food for thought.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eric Cagle, post: 83023, member: 277"] Re: The SM58... Yea I know, but I am a libertarian at heart. The poor little sheep singers will sing through anything we give them so I guess we are going to have to be the ones to wake them up. I think we have done a pretty good job of getting the guys with in ears to carry their own mic kit, and even a console sometimes. You don't really think anyone other than sound engineers figured that one out do you? Ha Ha Ha, now that is funny! When I worked at the Masquerade in Atlanta I didn't even want to touch some of the gross vocal mics there......and people actually put their lips on them. Yuck! I do actually think we as engineers created this situation by wanting to control things like having a known quality for all the vocal mics, and for that matter all the other mics. In that taking responsability for the sound thing there most likely is a little control freak in all of us, I will speak for myself......There is. I will deaden the ringing on a Drum kit in a heartbeat and convince the drummer why they like it. It is for their own good and for the good of the band you know :) Yes the change will have to start with us, we have the power. I would really rather ALWAYS use my own vocal mics. I hate letting go but it really needs to be done. We already at least have our singers carrying their mics at a national level and I'm am willing to bet it is most (if not all) of the BE's who are responsible for that. Food for thought. [/QUOTE]

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