A brief word to you about microphone stands. here a couple of stands at one of my willingness systems to set up for me earlier. This one looks reasonable condition to me. I'll use that for my stage right vocal. This one However, I'm immediately suspicious of. There are several things wrong with this microphone stand.
Firstly, it would appear to not be a stand it would appear to be a lien. That is to say it is incapable of standing up. It's one of the legs has been damaged or bent and it seems to have a permanent lien to starboard. There seem to be a couple of other things wrong with it as well. This joint here doesn't appear where the boom arm meets the stand itself doesn't appear to be able to live correctly, we seem to have a knob missing from our dare fracture. This stand is absolutely no good to me at all.
In fact, it's really a piece of scrap metal So take it away and bring me another one. Yeah. Thank you, Luca. Okay, this sounds seems to be a rather better condition. It stands up straight. It's nice and tight.
The stand itself isn't touching the ground. It has all three of its rubber feet. The grip pair tightens up nicely. When you're adjusting a stand. Do it a fiver and undo the clutch before you move the boom rather than trying to force it or make it last an awful lot longer. And it is really important because of course Stan's get hot under the lights In the heat of a concert, the metal expands and they will go loose and floppy.
So it's vitally important to make sure that the stand is done up as tightly as you reasonably can. Now, a boom stand for a singer like this would indicate that they're likely to be a musician, playing a guitar or something of this nature. So should the musician have a problem in the middle of the song, should the stand droop or lean or rotate away from it, they have no choice but to do something about it in order to be able to continue singing. And that usually involves knocking it over or or using some other way to attract somebody's attention to give them some help, because obviously, they can't do anything about it on their own without stopping playing their instrument. last little hint, when you're putting a microphone onto a stand, the easy way of doing it is to undo the handpiece of the telescopic boom.
And rotate the shaft gently like that until it's nice and tight. And always try to present the microphone to the singers mouth. So they sing right into the microphone, not for example, across the top of it or across the side of it like that. It's vitally important that you get in order to get the best reproduction possible that the singer sings right into the diaphragm of the microphone.