3 Using your microphone
3.1Introduction A handheld vocal microphone provides many ways of shaping the sound of your voice as it is heard over the sound system. The following sections contain useful hints on how to use your microphone for best results.
3.2Working Distance Basically, your voice will sound the bigger and mellower, the and Proximity Effect closer you hold the microphone to your lips. Moving away from
the microphone will produce a more reverberant, more distant sound as the microphone will pick more of the room’s reverber- ation.
You can use this effect to make your voice sound aggressive, neutral, insinuating, etc. simply by changing your working distance.
Proximity effect is a more or less dramatic boost of low fre- quencies that occurs when you sing into the microphone from less than 2 inches. It gives more "body" to your voice and an in- timate,
3.3Angle of Incidence Refer to fig. 1.
Fig. 1: Typical micro- phone position.
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If you sing directly into the mi- crophone, it will not only pick up excessive breath noise but also overemphasize "sss", "sh", "tch", "p", and "t" sounds.
•Therefore, sing to one side of the microphone or above and across the microphone’s top. This provides a well-bal- anced, natural sound.
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