Our gear - microphones

A new series of posts that I wanted to start on is the kind of gear that we use. People often ask what kind of gear we use for our various applications. Over the year we tried many different models of equipment and gear. Of course, we're still a small church and our installs and mobile locations vary in size and form.

Now, just to start this post, I wanted to talk about the variety of microphones we use for our speakers.

WIRED - we have about 2 handheld models we use: both from Shure - SM58 and SM58Beta. These are basically the industry standard of microphones. I've seen these used everywhere. The standard SM58 tends to have a stronger bass response than I like for most voices but the Beta is quite a bit more expensive.

WIRELESS - we use a variety here of different mic heads.

* Countryman E6 and E6i and B6 - the E series is the one that wraps around your ear and the B series is a lapel mic.

* DPA 4065 - this is a wireless head that wraps around both ears. We've become most fond of this mic head b/c of the response and the ease of placement of the mic head.