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Mic Mechanic Quick Start Video
We’ve just released a video Quick Start Guide for Mic Mechanic. It covers all of the features and operation, with some connection tips as well.
If you own a Mic Mechanic, or are thinking about buying one, this is a great video to get you going!
- July 26, 2012 at 9:36 am by Craig Fraser
- Posted in Amusing, Featured, Mic Mechanic, Products, Support, Tips & Tricks, Video Single, Videos
- 10 comments
Hi
have a customer interested in some of your products, do you have a canadian distributor, or can you sell direct to Canada – I do have a shipping address in Point Roberts, WA
Hi Chuck,
We sell in Canada, both via “bricks and mortar” stores and online retailers. We don’t do any direct sales. On each of the product pages, there’s a “Buy” link. If your customer is in Canada, they can click on that link to get a list of local distributors.
Most of the main retailers carry our products.
Love it…Mine arrives 12th march…can i hook up a harmonizer inline with the mic mechanic…(I’m gonna get a tc helicon harmonizer at the end of the month…any suggestions?…thanks….
Heya Darren,
You have a bit of a compromise if you chain the Mic Mechanic. If you run something like an H1, you’ll probably want to run it before the MM in the chain, so you get: Lead Vocal –> H1 Harmonies –> MM Tone –> Reverb/Delay. The issue is that you won’t be able to take advantage of pitch correction, since you’re giving the Mic Mechanic multiple voices.
The other choice is to go: Lead Vocal –> MM Tone –> Correction –> Reverb/Delay –> H1 Harmonies. The issue with this chain is that you’re harmonizing to effects like reverb, which can get wonky for the processors.
I’d go with scenario 1 personally. The other choice is to use the MM solo for a while, then upgrade to something like a VoiceLive Play (or Play GTX) and give the MM to someone else in your band, so they can tighten up any other vocals that sing along with you.
I just bought MicMechanic. I went for this product because i need (urgently) a vocal effect to accommodate venues that don’t have any effect processor whatsoever. A Vocal on a outdoor venues that didn’t have any reverb at all is, IMO, died. Or very dull indeed.
But what i’m most interested in this product is actually the correction. I certainly didn’t expect the correction would be like a Hard Tune-ish Cher-ish voice, which probably provided by C1 and/or Synth, but i feel like the correction on this kinda weird.
CMIIW, but i feel like when i cranked up the correction, it actually kinda double my voice, and that second layer is the one which effected by the correction. Is that what it is, or i’m wrong? Or maybe it’s because i already updated the firmware?
I’m planning on buying several products later on, to expand my performance. So thank you for creating great products.
Hi Yonathan,
What you’re hearing is phasing between the corrected signal and the un-corrected voice (typically you’re hearing via bone conduction).
Check out this Craig’s Corner episode that I made to explain what’s going on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWrEIuiDXsA
Can you show us how you had it set up for
the excellent ad you did, when you cut off your
voice and we all went to Amazon to purchase
a mic mechanic.
I’m more interested in using it for some short
1-3 minute, informational videos … making the
sound jump out (just as you did in that video) ..
but not requiring the echo-ing vibrance of Mount
Kilamanjaro disintegrating in the background.
Thanks … Good stuff !
You’re a great presenter.
Hi John,
For a presentation, I’d likely just turn the Dry/Wet knob all the way to the left (dry), which kills all of the reverb/echo. Also, turn Correction to OFF. Essentially, you’re just getting the Tone circuit at that point, which is what adds the EQ, Compression, De-Essing and Gating to the voice.
Thanks for the kind words
Funny presenter, well done. I like when he disappeared below to procure the power cord. Kept me entertained. Good stuff.
hahaha. great presentation! bravo!