How does one use a mic with a DL4 or similar pedal?

[colbybmiller]

I've always known that Thom Yorke and other musicians use various guitar pedals with their vocals, but I can't figure out how they do this while still having their vocals sound well enough.

 

I attempted hooking one of my SM58s up to a DL4 last night to no success. It's just too quiet.

 

So how does Thom Yorke do it? Anyone have any advice on this?

[t_e_l_e]

you could use a mixer send and return (or insert) channels as efx loops, depending on the mixers options there are a tons of ways how to wire it up

 

you could use a mic preamp between mic and your efx pedals

something liek this, is on the cheap side

http://www.thomann.de/gb/art_tube_mp.htm

 

if have no clue about preamp and if this suggestion is anything good, but its a start

[martha_KH]

You will need a low to high impedance adapter. Something like this should do it: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/audio-technica-cp8201-in-line-transformer

[imbuedblue]

Thom has a Radial JDI passive direct box in line between his vocal effects and the FOH mixer.

[Phil O'Keefe]

You will need a low to high impedance adapter. Something like this should do it: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/audio-technica-cp8201-in-line-transformer

 

That would correct the impedance mismatch, but not the level and mixing issues - the level coming out of the typical dynamic / moving coil vocal mic is typically much lower than the output of a guitar.

 

Eventide came out with a clever pedal not too long ago called the Mixing Link that's designed to deal with both the level and impedance issues. If I needed to run pedals on the vocal mic, and wanted to control that from on stage, I'd get one of those.

 

 

 

 

If you want the soundperson to handle it, it can be done at the mixing console, but again, you'd need to preamplify the mic signal first, then take a board send, convert the impedance, run that into the pedal, then take the pedal's output back to the board via an aux return...