MIC TECHNIQUE: VOCALS
🎤 The mic shapes your sound way more than you think. Are you shaping it back?
🗣️ Live technique isn’t just vocal. It’s technical. Direction, distance, angle, and air all change what the audience actually hears.
🔦 A unidirectional mic works like a flashlight. Whatever you point it at becomes the brightest part of your sound. Aim carelessly, and you lose clarity or trigger feedback.
📏 Proximity is your volume control. Close for intimacy. Far for power. Sideways when you want to thin the tone. Every inch has consequences.
💨 Plosives are air attacks. Angle the mic or sing across it to keep your P’s and K’s from blowing up the mix.
🎶 The mic doesn’t replace your technique. It extends it. Voice + mic = the real instrument in live performance.
🆕 Check out Part 2 for the performance side: shapes, presence, and how the mic becomes part of the story.
