I saw a cool custom wireless mic this week.

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I worked with the singing MA State Trooper, Dan Clark this week.

He had something that should be patented and sold. Someone made him a wireless mic that has an 1/8 input. He velcros an ipod to the mic and sings with the ability to change tracks on the fly.

It looked like this:
 

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OK, been drinking through the blizzard and have hit "moron" phase. Help me out here:

Do you mean that the iPOD plays through the mic with his voice, at the same level, and it's transmitted to the amp, then speakers directly? No mixing?

Not knocking the mic, the extra input is cool. Just trying to figure out exactly how he uses it....:sqerr:
 
This is what those hip-hop people should do, then I wouldn't have to play cd's back at the board, and have them telling me through the mains which track to skip to or which cd to put in! I don't know why they can't just have a cd with the full set and let it play?!

The funny thing is, 90% of the time if I solo the tracks, all the vocals are there also, they are just mumbling over top of the recording anyway.

Definitely a cool idea, but I think it would be better to have another wireless unit with the ipod on a guitar pack, then it could be adjusted from the mixer. With it all coming from one source to the mixer, any vocal processing would be done to the tracks also.
 
This guy probably does not always have the luxury of someone to adjust levels and "mix" him.
He probably performs at some very unusual places, where he has to be his own sound guy.
think of how nice that setup would be...on a parade float!
 
I'm getting a patent right now (patent pending status in 1 week w00t), and the process is very time consuming. Chances are after a patent search, something similar would pop up in another country.
 
cerebro said:
I'm getting a patent right now (patent pending status in 1 week w00t), and the process is very time consuming. Chances are after a patent search, something similar would pop up in another country.
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I don't think so, because the first time I worked with this guy, I googled it for an hour and couldn't find it. The next time I saw him was when I found out that someone customized it for him.

Don't forget to send me my royalties. :sqwink:


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Although not as simple as the all in one Mic as pictured above, you can achieve the same results with an instrument wireless belt pack. Plug in a splitter and plug a mic in one and a MP3 player in another.
Not much difference " feel" wise.
The picture shown will have a wire going to the MP3 player anyway. Now you will have a short wire from the mic to the belt pack.

The MP3 would have had a wire too going to the Mic anyway also, so it wont matter if it went to the belt pack instead.
 
eezee said:
Although not as simple as the all in one Mic as pictured above, you can achieve the same results with an instrument wireless belt pack. Plug in a splitter and plug a mic in one and a MP3 player in another.
Not much difference " feel" wise.
The picture shown will have a wire going to the MP3 player anyway. Now you will have a short wire from the mic to the belt pack.

The MP3 would have had a wire too going to the Mic anyway also, so it wont matter if it went to the belt pack instead.
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haha, what a great idea!
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eezee said:
Although not as simple as the all in one Mic as pictured above, you can achieve the same results with an instrument wireless belt pack. Plug in a splitter and plug a mic in one and a MP3 player in another.
Not much difference " feel" wise.
The picture shown will have a wire going to the MP3 player anyway. Now you will have a short wire from the mic to the belt pack.

The MP3 would have had a wire too going to the Mic anyway also, so it wont matter if it went to the belt pack instead.
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After reading that again, it's not quite what I had mentioned previously.
Your saying put a Y cable on the input, but I don't think that would work. You don't want the output of the mp3 player going into the output of the microphone.
 
Hank, where did you work with the Trooper. I've heard his sing on TV but haven't had the pleasure in public. Of course that just leaves one less Mass State Trooper sitting in their car on the Mass Pike napping while on a road detail.:sqlaugh:
 
cclark65 said:
After reading that again, it's not quite what I had mentioned previously.
Your saying put a Y cable on the input, but I don't think that would work. You don't want the output of the mp3 player going into the output of the microphone.
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No, both Mic and MP3 into the Input. Since most Instrument packs have just a single input, thats were the splitter goes into play. Sometimes my thinking is going faster than my writing:sqlaugh::sqbiggrin:
 
eezee said:
No, both Mic and MP3 into the Input. Since most Instrument packs have just a single input, thats were the splitter goes into play. Sometimes my thinking is going faster than my writing:sqlaugh::sqbiggrin:
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I think the mp3 player would play back into the mic circuit, which might not be a good thing.

I imagine there would have to be some sort of really simple passive mixer. I have no clue how it's mixed in the jack on the wireless mic. Maybe i'm overthinking it.
 
eezee said:
Just imagine a MIC Input on your mixer. Lets say you only have 1 MIC input on your mixer but you need to plug in 2 MICS. You will plug in a splitter so now you have 2 inputs.

Same concept except on a wireless pack.
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I understand that concept fine.

I would bet that if you hooked an MP3 player to one side of that Y cable, and a mic to the other, you would be able to hear the music playing out of the microphone capsule of a standard wired mic. This could destroy the mic if you turned up the mp3 player.

Also, the output of the mp3 player is line level, much higher than that of the microphone.

That's the issue I"m talking about.

On the one with the wireless jack on the side, I'm guessing that the jack is hooked up after a mic pre-amp, which would isolate it from the capsule, before it gets to the transmitter circuit.
 
I think what Charles is saying is that mic level (in milivolts) is substantially different from a line level (approximately 1 volt) and this is why mixing boards (and wireless transmitters) have mic pre-amps. You could pad that signal down to mic level and combine it, although I'm not sure what level of success you'd have. I suspect that they installed a small isolation circuit after the mic pre-amp but before the transmitter output circuitry.

Ben
 
Yo guys are way overthinking this whole thing.

I am aware that line levels and mic levels are different.
However, looking at the OPs original picture with an AUX in built into the wireless Mic, the signal will still be sent to the SAME wireless reciever that is also plugged into a MIC input, not a line input.

OPs original pic
Mic w/ Built in Aux ( which has a MP3 Player plugged in) --> Wireless receiver -------- > MIC in

What I suggested that might yield similar rsults
Wirless pack with splitter ---------> wireless receiver --------------- > MIC in

What is similar is that the end of the chain is still a MIC input.

Its not like the OPs MIC with built in AUX signal is being split then sent to 2 receivers where one is plugged in a MIC and the other is plugged in a Line.


Just my .02 YMMV
 
but the original post still stands as written

it's a friggin' cool idea
that someone made with their own "smarts"
that works just fine for his situation.

why debate the technology
it's not like any of us will be using it at our next wedding!
:sqlaugh:

unless you wanna eliminate your load time completely!
 
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