I had 6 vocals on stage tonight... Eight fairly hot mixes (10x- Martin LE1200 wedges).
Two leads were female and carry a Shure Ur4d w/ two Beta87 capsules.
The sax player provides his own KMS105 for his backing vocals & an RF KSM-9 for when he sings lead out front.
My two background vocalists were on wired 58's.
Those freaking Martin wedges are so bright in passive mode that I was wishing everyone was on 58's, the whole night. The mixes were stable the whole night after some decent reduction on the top end with a parametric, but not ideal by a long shot.
The beta 87, 105 & ksm9 are all excellent mics. I use all three regularly and own a KMS104 myself for when the need arises... But in this situation, the 58 would have been a smarter choice.
The 58's sounded better in the wedges all night and with far less attention then the nicer ones, which all had far too much top end for those Martin wedges running hot.
Just my opinion though, from a real world point of view.
