Any experience with using a clip on mic with your mandola?
Brands, type of clip, where has been the best spot to aim the mic?
Any experience with using a clip on mic with your mandola?
Brands, type of clip, where has been the best spot to aim the mic?
Does your mandola have an oval hole or F-holes? It makes a difference with mic placement; F-holes are easier because you can clip a mini condenser mic aimed at the bottom of the bass-side F-hole, away from your picking hand.
Here's how I use a DPA 4099 mic on my Weber octave mandolin. Not a mandola but I use the same position with my mandolin and OM, and I'm sure it would work fine on an F-hole mandola:
If it's an oval-hole mandola, maybe someone can chip in with advice.
Yes, F holes. Looks like the DPA 4099 would work.
Thanks very much.
Generally you adapt a Lavaliere mic ..
that's the big market they fill .worn on all those TV talk shows rather than a boom mic overhead,
just off camera..
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
the DPA made my dola come alive. Awesome. Used it on my F5 at an open mic for the first time too. Wonderful
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