This post started 5 years ago, didn't it?

I've been using the Crowne CM-311A for the last 4 years, and I am so happy with it. Besides sounding great, I can do this:

1. Look at the buttons and display of my keyboard without taking my mouth off the mic.
2. Look at the audience everywhere in the room without taking my mouth off the mic.
3. Cough without being heard by pressing a button on the belt pack of the mic.

It is a great microphone for an arranger keyboard player. No boom necessary.

The only people that shy away from it are those who get really loud at the top of their range or really soft on the low notes. I think the CM311A has helped my singing because I have learned to sing throughout my range at approximately the same volume.

If you often worry about taking your mouth off the mic to look at your keyboard or people on the sides of the room, the CM311A should definitely be looked at.

Beakybird

Thanks guys. My Crown 300 is a CM311A also and I have no complaints about it but I am always looking for new and better equipment and it seems that there is nothing much better than the Crown CM311A but I was hoping to learn about a better one with less bulk and therefore less visable to the public. I enjoy mine, singing through the keyboard with an inline impedance matching transformer as it is a low impedance mic..
By the way I found mine in a guitar store, used for $125.00 and it seems to work fine and shows no sign of physical damage.
Larry C.

Were you no longer happy with it, or?

Scott

Scott I took back my 855 because I hated the beta 58 for my voice......

[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 09-09-2005).]

Scott.........If you want I will send you my Senn 855 to try to see if you like it.....if so I'll give ya a swetheart deal on it if you want to keep it .....if not no prob, send it back but at last you can say you tried it.

All the above is correct. On Gary's recommendation I purchased the Q7 primarily because of feedback problems I was having, but now well resolved... thanks, Gary.

Glenn

Anyone using the EV N/D967 MIC?

I need a new Toy....
http://www.electrovoice.com/productfamilies/33.html

Donny, HankB has one. Of course I tried it out. It sounds great to me, but not "greater" than most high-end mics. Depends on your voice, as you know.
I still haven't found anything I like as well as the Senn 855.
DonM

http://www.sennheiserusa.com/newsite/productdetail.asp?transid=004846

Don looks like they replacesd the E855 with the E865.......

I also enjoyed the E855.....for awhile...
but my trusty SM58 workhorse does the job for me so I keep returning to it.....I'd love to try that EV is hank selling it?

I've been using a Countryman E6 now for over a year..... love it...stays right with me while moving my head around, etc. It's also so light I don't even know I have it on a lot of the times.

Jeff