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#398933 - 01/29/15 05:59 PM
Re: LD handheld mike
[Re: guitpic1]
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Registered: 12/08/02
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Loc: Forest Hill, MD USA
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Always check the store policy on mic returns. Many stores will tell you that they cannot accept mics because of health department regulations, which is a lie. There are no such regulations, state or federal. If they give you this crap, tell them to show you the law or regulation in print - they won't do it because there is no such regulation or law on the books in any state in the US. This is merely store policy because they do not want to clean the mic and cannot sell it for new if returned, even if it's on the same day. Good luck, Gary 
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#398950 - 01/30/15 06:28 AM
Re: LD handheld mike
[Re: guitpic1]
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Registered: 11/24/99
Posts: 1675
Loc: Milford, CT, USA
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From a sound engineers perspective, All quality mics, usually $99 and up are all good at what they are designed to do. The reason why some mics seem to perform better than others are outside factors
- everyone's voice has a different sound quality, eq, volume
- each pa that is being used has different levels of sound
- each room you play in will affect the sound of the pa, and the sound of the mic
- the volume you sing at or the volume that is around you will also affect the mic sound
- even if you have a great mixer, but don't know how to adjust the gain on your channel or the basics of hi-passing can make a $1000 mic sound like singing into a bucket
Also just for fun, Mariah Carey usually sings into a very super expensive condesor mic, and lately hasn't been sounding that great, Do you blame the mic? Also I just saw Paul McCartney and Billy Joel, and they sounded amazing, and they where both singing into a sm58 and Bet58 shure, which start at $99
more expensvie mics are always a better route, but doesn't always fix the other issues.
It's funny, I play equally bad on a cheap keyboard as I do on a $5000 keyboard
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#398956 - 01/30/15 07:39 AM
Re: LD handheld mike
[Re: frankieve]
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Registered: 09/21/00
Posts: 43703
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From a sound engineers perspective, All quality mics, usually $99 and up are all good at what they are designed to do. The reason why some mics seem to perform better than others are outside factors
- everyone's voice has a different sound quality, eq, volume
- each pa that is being used has different levels of sound
- each room you play in will affect the sound of the pa, and the sound of the mic
- the volume you sing at or the volume that is around you will also affect the mic sound
- even if you have a great mixer, but don't know how to adjust the gain on your channel or the basics of hi-passing can make a $1000 mic sound like singing into a bucket
Also just for fun, Mariah Carey usually sings into a very super expensive condesor mic, and lately hasn't been sounding that great, Do you blame the mic? Also I just saw Paul McCartney and Billy Joel, and they sounded amazing, and they where both singing into a sm58 and Bet58 shure, which start at $99
more expensvie mics are always a better route, but doesn't always fix the other issues.
It's funny, I play equally bad on a cheap keyboard as I do on a $5000 keyboard DITTO Frank all valid points ... 
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