Any tin whistle players in here?

[thatcelticband]

Hey, If anyone knows the answer to this, I'm all ears! Our Piper plays whistle as well but is having difficulity micing and hearing it in a live situation. Anyone have any advice?

[auld argonian]

Almost everybody that I know just plays into a microphone on a stand. I have seen low whistles that have a small microphone attached at the sound hole and used with a wireless belt pack but those are few and far between.

Best

AA

[fluter]

Hey, If anyone knows the answer to this, I'm all ears! Our Piper plays whistle as well but is having difficulity micing and hearing it in a live situation. Anyone have any advice?

You might try a head-worn vocal mike. Works for flute...

Do you have a monitor mix going already?

[McGurk]

Hmm, being a wee bit of a whistler myself, I'd say loose the pipes, the whistle is fine on its own! :P

(I better hide now, methinks I dare not guess how many people that'll offend! )

[Kiltedmusiclover]

I would send a pm to Jimmy Carbomb.
He plays one for his band Barley Juice and they can
play traditional or rock out with the best of them.

Here is a photo of his setup from the Grandfather Mt. games.

[thatcelticband]

You might try a head-worn vocal mike. Works for flute...

Do you have a monitor mix going already?

yes but cant get mix hot enough to hear it. He keeps jumping from low regisster to octave trying to blow hard enough to hear it. Of course, there is the tuning problem as well

[thatcelticband]

I would send a pm to Jimmy Carbomb.
He plays one for his band Barley Juice and they can
play traditional or rock out with the best of them.

Here is a photo of his setup from the Grandfather Mt. games.

thanks will do!

[haukehaien]

Make sure your mike is pointed at the soundhole, or that the soundhole stays within the radius (for non-directional mikes). As far as hearing it, can he get a monitor of some sort? An in-ear would be best, but even if you can feed some back through a regular stage monitor that would help.

[Alan H]

Check the type of microphone. Mine happen to be studio mkes that MUST be very close to the sound source. This is for live recording, so that each instrument/voice has essentially no interference from any other in the studio. They're great for studio recording, but they are rotten to useless for a live concert, for example.

[fluter]

I asked: monitor?

yes but cant get mix hot enough to hear it.

monitor of some sort? An in-ear would be best,

That's where I was leading, too. If a headset mike would work for the whistle, you could possibly combine it with a monitor headphone/earpiece.

I have not yet had the pleasure of seeing y'all play, nor seen more than the video on your MySpace page. You'll get better help from those who are actively gigging, I'm sure.

The choice of mike and miking technique is the first part of the critical path. Try as many mikes as possible.

I won't presume to say much to Liam about technique, but I've been playing flute and recorder as long as he's been playing pipes & whistle, so---when all else fails DO eat the mike, as the singers say. I often put it overhead at forehead level pointing down at my nose & the instrument, but this may/may not work on stage. Then I let my mustache almost tickle the mike

A dedicated monitor of some sort: If a "reasonable" monitor speaker won't get it, try a JBL EON 15 or something similarly unreasonable. I call the EON the flutists revenge. I have 2, if needed there's one for me and one for the stage mix. The flutist's revenge Mark I was a 2x12 cabinet with 4 dome tweeters and a little amp, with which I could make the drummer take notice.

Finally a dedicated monitor mix if it's needed: take the mike to a little mixer and send one signal to the monitor and another to the mix? The ubiquitous little Mackie or Spirit Folio would be useful and not too dear; they have decent pre-amps for the money.

Having said which, it's been a looong time since I had to build a live PA, so take it for what it's worth. Hopefully you won't need all of it.