Lapel Microphones

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Hi all,

Does anyone use lapel microphones?
I have been asked by a customer if I have one although it's not important.
I've looked into these before both for hire but also for myself if doing a quiz night etc..

Any recommendations? I don't want anything too pricey.

Cheers
Gary

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Have a look to see if your current system has a compatible lapel mic, Gary.

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Sorry Angela, What do you mean?
Excuse my ignorance but I thought a lapel microphone was like a radio microphone and that it had a controller system that you connected to the mixer?
Apologies for being dense!
I've got to nip out quickly but will be back to see the (obvious) abuse I am going to get for being a numpty! :confused:

[CRAZY K]

Hi all,

Does anyone use lapel microphones?
I have been asked by a customer if I have one although it's not important.
I've looked into these before both for hire but also for myself if doing a quiz night etc..

Any recommendations? I don't want anything too pricey.

Cheers
Gary

I guess Shure is a standard option--Matt from Spin had one for sale recently I believe.

Personally I have kept away from lapels and headsets as I cant get the quality I want for MY shows.

ie Plenty of punch treble and bass and no feedback.

Just my view, maybe if you pay mega money you can get a good result( but not in your spec)

I tried a headset from Paul James with his fabulous Void System--didnt do it for me so I used a hand mike ( Sennheiser) ---that was magic!!!!!!!!!!!!

What Angela means Gary is you could ADD TO a wireless mike system BY BUYING A LAPEL MIKE---sooooo---if you have say a Shure Wireless system with a hand held mike you can also buy a lapel mike to go with it.

OR a JTS like mine OR a Sennheiser OR others.

HTH

[Corabar Entertainment]

Sorry Angela, What do you mean?
Excuse my ignorance but I thought a lapel microphone was like a radio microphone and that it had a controller system that you connected to the mixer?
Apologies for being dense!
I've got to nip out quickly but will be back to see the (obvious) abuse I am going to get for being a numpty! :confused:

Well, for example (and sorry if I'm misunderstanding you and teaching my grandmother to suck eggs), we have a shure radio mic system. We have the base unit, plus 2 radio mics, plus a headset mic, and the same model could also be purchased with lapel mics (We didn't buy any, but it was handy to know we could just add them on if we wanted to).

We could use any combination we wanted with the base unit - eg two radio mics; 1 radio mic & 1 headset, etc. If we wanted lapel mics, we'd just buy the lapel mics themselves and use them with our current base unit.

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Ok, thanks.
I don't use my Radio mic that much to be honest and it's a cheapy £100.00 job that I purchased around 6 years ago.
It's a Numark one.
Thanks again, I'll look into this further now I understand what you mean.

[DazzyD]

I've used lavalier mics (to give them their proper name) before when mic'ing up people for speeches and presentations and I quite like them. Although, I've never owned them myself, I would go for these:

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/displayProduct.jsp?sku=MP3387596&CMP=aballbrochure

as I quite like the Trantec S4.4 systems - they're very flexible and adaptable. Not the cheapest but not the most expensive, either. Some higher quality systems can cost ten times this (Shure do ones that are £500+).