Identical to “shotgun” microphones, there are numerous helpful equipment to assist lavaliere microphones carry out their finest. On this lesson you will be taught in regards to the necessities to maintain in your equipment. Let’s check out a few of the equipment that include one of these microphone:
Wearable Microphones
Our instance is an Audio Technica 899W, and there are a couple of totally different variations of this microphone. This specific instance is offered and designed to go together with an Audio Technica wi-fi transmitter. There’s one other model, for about $100 USD extra, with an XLR energy module. The cool factor about this microphone is that it comes with a bunch of very nice equipment, and the equipment that comes together with your microphone might be an necessary factor relating to selecting your microphone.
You may see that some microphones include a very fundamental clip and perhaps a wind display screen, and others include a very wholesome accent package deal.
The Microphone Clip
Not all microphone clips are the identical. The 899W has a pleasant steel clip that comes with a very good stout spring. It even comes with a rubber boot that goes over the alligator tooth in case you are clamping on to delicate clothes. It has an additional clamp so to get the mic oriented in the correct manner, and the precise microphone mount is modular, so it truly comes off and might be changed with totally different variations. Having all these choices can show to be very helpful.
One of many different helpful issues a couple of mounting system is that you need to use the mount (with out the clip) in a shirt buttonhole with a chunk of tape to safe it, for a low profile mounting choice.
Factor Covers
This microphone additionally comes with a component cowl, which is a protecting display screen that’s designed to over the top of the microphone. This isn’t designed to have an effect on the general frequency response or the sensitivity of the microphone although different microphone manufactures, like Countryman, do have totally different interchangeable caps that drastically change the frequency response. Like most microphones, this one got here with a really fundamental wind display screen.
You do not have to purchase the precise windscreen that goes together with your microphone, though some microphones are a particular form, just like the Tram TR50 or Shure SM93 — extra of a sq. or rectangle form so a few of the smaller windscreens do not match. However many of the lavaliere microphones that you will see on the market are in truth spherical, so you’ll find a bunch of third get together windscreens on the market.
Now, talking of wind, you will get bigger windscreens with fury covers. If you are going to mount the microphone to the skin of your clothes and really be exterior, that is the sort of safety you need.
Different Mic Mounting Choices
There are a couple of extra mic mounting choices. For instance, there’s a two-part magnetic system the place you place a little bit steel disc beneath the garments, and the microphone snaps proper to it. This may be actually useful for clothes the place you may’t clip the material.
Cloth Tape
Even in case you are utilizing simply the fundamental mic clip for a lavaliere microphone, normally you will use a chunk of cloth tape to make and safe a little bit loop to behave as a pressure reduction. I like to make use of one other piece of tape someplace near the place I am mounting the microphone to assist maintain the wire up and get it pinned down beneath the shirt so it is not seen or transferring round and altering the location of the microphone. Gaff tape and double sided tape are useful gizmo to have and can be utilized for all types of inventive mounting, they’re primarily prerequisites when working with lav mics, however for taping clothes an awesome different is cloth medical tape, which does not go away residues and is supposed to stick to cloth.
Developing on the following lesson, you are going to find out about one other microphone different, “pencil condensers.”
