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Tony our BUV has decided he wants to add more to the band experience than vocals. He has been playing a shaker egg and some cow bell to add to our songs using his vocal mic.
However Ray has acquired a really neat traditional rain-stick. Made of cactus limb, by hammering the spines inward and filling with and small stones.
Tony is experimenting as well with a dijurido AWA some other percussion instruments.

What would be IYO the best option for amplification?

My gut feeling is to go with a dedicated condenser mic.
Perhaps on an AB switch from his vocal feed?
But then I have plenty of open inputs on my PA for another mic.

What do you guys think??

Can't honestly say about the mic, I like the a/b on his vocal idea though.

Stick a piezo mic on it. You can even make one yourself.


http://cigarboxguitars.com/resources/wo ... transducer

An SM57 night work, if you keep it out of the monitors. Keep it in that sweet spot!

Cool.

We have a 57 we can try out Phil.

Bookmarked the link 90 ...

Thanks guys!

We have a rainstick as well. Sounds great in the studio, but onstage it might be problematic. If you do mic it, try doing it in a period of silence in the song.

Yeah. Intro for LET IT RAIN.

Thanks for the advice.

Or, you could just glue one of these to the rainstick. You could probably run it into an input channel on your mixer.

http://guitarfuel.com/Piezo_Pickup.php

Man those are a lot less expensive than a mic.
Probably would not offer much in feed back issues in a fairly loud monitor environment either.

C00L !

I'd say go with a small diaphram condenser, cardiod. Most of those things you listed are fairly quite so something like a 57 would require allot of gain.

Appreciate the feedback.

At this point Tony is just utilizing his vocal mic.

We have been so busy constructing new songs the alternative instrumentation issue has slipped to the back burner.

I second the piezo.

Have a look at: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr11/a ... -happy.htm

They're also essentially what drum triggers are.

JamieOxford wrote:I second the piezo.

Have a look at: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr11/a ... -happy.htm

They're also essentially what drum triggers are.

Thanks for the link.

try an ev 408 , 468 ,767 hyper cardiod & bright, 408 is one of my all time favs

Thanks for the input bro.

All bets are off till we get this new guitarist up to speed.
Don't want to fight a two front war unless I have too.