Re: Mick's double microphone - Hyde Park
Date: January 25, 2005 10:54
The reason is: in those days PA's were still fairly weak in power. So, at larger concerts they simply used two PA's for the vocals, one left and one right. The mixing boards didn't have the facility yet to connect easily, so two microfones were used. If you just tigh them together the sound gets awfull as somne frequencies will interfere, therefore the second mike is taped approx. 5 cm. behind the other. There's many concerts and festivals from that time, mainly the bigger ones, where they used two microfones for the singer. I have wondered myself for 20 years why they do this, but if I remember well it is explained on the comments section from the Gimme Shelter DVD.
Mathijs