hot4blues
97 posts
Feb 02, 2018
7:02 AM
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Just wondering. For anyone and everyone. When playing harp as well as breaks for singing into the microphone, does anyone cover the top of their microphones with a windscreen? Even though they're not needed if playing directly into the microphone, they come in handy when singing and preventing any unwanted material (bad breath a major culprit) entering through the steel mesh covering the tops of the mics.
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jbone
2472 posts
Feb 02, 2018
7:06 AM
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Nobody uses my mics but me. So it seems to be a non issue
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Buzadero
1316 posts
Feb 02, 2018
8:06 AM
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Not for any hygienic, sanitary or other germ mitigation measures, but for the past few years I've used a small Crown Royal bag.
Some years back I picked up an Ultimate 58 from our own Greg Heumann. It's my chromatic mic, but with the size of the chroms I was sometimes getting a metal on metal click when I was using one hand when the other (button hand) had to come off to do something like turn a page, adjust a knob, etc. I use the 58 with the chrom precisely because I want the cleaner sound, so the little clicks and scratchy sounds were becoming obsessively annoying to me.
I started sticking a tiny blue felt Crown Royal bag like a condom over the head of the mic and cinching the little drawstrings. The tiny Crown bag for the little airline size liquor bottles fits perfectly and the felt is just right for dampening the contact relationship between the mic screen and the back of the chromatic.
Plus there is a really nice by-product of the visual eliciting positive comments that it's cool.
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dougharps
1697 posts
Feb 02, 2018
8:17 AM
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When sitting in for a song I have occasionally used a clean handkerchief as a high cut filter on a vocal mic that was painfully bright for harp. The Crown Royal bag sounds cool. I would use a Blanton's bag if I did it.
If you share mics, you could try a foam cover. If you have your own mic I am not sure it would make much of a difference in the long run.
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Doug S.
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Buzadero
1317 posts
Feb 02, 2018
9:00 AM
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Ha. I'd use a Blanton's bag if I had the choice. So far, I haven't seen a mini-bottle (airline size) bag for anything but the iconic Crown Royal.
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dougharps
1699 posts
Feb 02, 2018
9:07 AM
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The Blanton's bag is full sized... I keep my Biscuit mic and Ultimate 58 in Blanton's bags.
I never saw a small one either...
I have an old cloth Turner Mic bag that is smaller than the Blanton's bag. It is vintage and cool, but I am afraid to wash it as it might fall apart or fade out the lettering.
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Doug S.
Last Edited by dougharps on Feb 02, 2018 9:09 AM
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