AKG D5 Vocal mic , vid 1

0:00 Basic video number one on this guy here

Alright folks, basic video number one on this guy here. It's from a company called AKG. This is a microphone for all those people who don't even know what that is and believe me there'll probably be quite a few people out there who've never seen a microphone before. Now from AKG this is known as the D5. Now first of all I'm going to show you what is in the box. Right, there it is, that's the box and first things first I'm going to show you this. That's the baggy thing that you can put it in. And that is not dissimilar to a pencil case, so I'm going to hide that otherwise my kids will be using it and taking it to school. Also you have one of those which has got nothing to do with night time activities for couples, but it looks quite interesting actually. That of course you stick on the microphone stand and you put your microphone in like that. There you go, and there. You see now logically right if you're going to put it like that...

0:55 Ideally they're quite happy

It's going to possibly do something like that, but again you're going to have a lead there. So ideally they're quite happy. And you get lots of this stuff that I think is wonderful. I love that stuff! It's like, you know, you just pop it and stuff. Right, lots of that. And microphone guide, which is quite important. It shows you all the different microphone guides, well I want to say microphone guides, the different microphones you can get and headphones etc. The one thing I do find quite comical in a sense, but then again we have to imagine that a lot of people out there probably have never used a microphone before, is the instruction manual. And believe me, alright, that's how thick it is, but it's in quite a few different languages. But for you and I, let's say, who've used a microphone before, we get the microphone, we take it out the box and we go plug it in and we talk. Maybe there's a switch on it, etc. for turning it on and off, but otherwise...

1:54 Hold microphone

You're just talking to it. But, of course, what I like about the instructions is it goes into slightly more depth. For example, hold the microphone quite close to your mouth and you're going to seem very loud and prominent. Move it away, you're going to get a bit of background sound as well, so maybe that's something to take into consideration when you're at your gigs. In other words, if you want, let's say... If you want someone else around you to get a bit of centre stage, so you want them to be heard as well, then move the microphone out here, like that, and they're there, so the crowd can hear them and you. But if you just really pissed off with them and can't stand the voice, you can hold the microphone here so you can't hear them. Now I have used this in quite a few gigs and I've noticed that the sound is very bold, very round, lots of bass.

And I don't get much feedback from it.

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