J. IRVING-GILES: Hi and welcome back to Gearwire.Com, I'm J. Irving-Giles, and today I have with me a dynamic lead vocal mic from Electro-Voice. It's the N/D767a. It's a supercardiod vocal mic so it's a polar pattern. It's a bit narrower and focused than your average just live performance mic like the an SM58, which most of you singers might be used to. It has neodymium magnets in it and Electro-Voice is proud to be one of the first companies to utilize such magnets. What they do, it’s a little faster response in the mic and just stronger signal so this mic has been highly touted in comparison to mics ini its price range. You'll find it for about $130 retail, just floating around there, which is a little more than the SM58, around the price point of some of the Senheiser Evolution series, just dynamic mics, and right now I'm talking through just our Senheiser Wireless Lav mic, so you can hear the difference when I switch off to the Electro-Voice lead vocal mic.

And just another thing, it is specifically designed for lead vocalists, so singers, if your backup vocalist want to use it, put the foot down, and can we get some B-roll of me stomping my foot? No? All right.

All right. Now I'm back. I've freed myself from the wireless Lav. I've got now wirelesses to hold me down. All I've got is this vocal mic here, and this N/D767a has another feature that Electro-Voice boasts about. It's the frequency response. It has just different range depending on how close you hold the mic to your vocals but it is a lead vocal mic, so I'll dust off the pipes here, revisit one of my favorite songs and just kind of show you the vocal effect here. A lot of singers you'll see on stage just sing right up to the mic, and that kind of muddies it up a little, and when you do that with the N/D767a, you're supposed to get an effect just kind of like a sweetening effect that's great on kind of lower sultrier vocals when you're not wailing out the notes. So let's try a verse like that because chorus is where you want to get really loud and get the oomph injected into your song so here's go nothing.

[J. IRVING-GILES SINGING A VERSE FROM "OUT OF MY HEAD" BY FASTBALL] "Sometimes I feel like I am drunk behind the wheel, the wheel of possibility wherever it may roll."

All right, and then about 24 inches away from the mic, let's see. That's a good eyeball there. If you're really wailing, you want to back off a little bit. It just captures that a bit more naturally so why don't we move over to the chorus.

[J. IRVING-GILES RECEIVING A PHONE CALL] What? I'm recording a video right now so. Wait. What do you want? Real quick. Okay. All right. Later.

All right, and to show off the proximity effect here, I'm going to hold the microphone a little further away, scaled back, and do something that's more powerful, less soft and sultry and with a little more power to the voice there, and I'm going to do a different song.

[J. IRVING-GILES SINGING A VERSE FROM "WAR PIGS" BY BLACK SABBATH] "Generals gathered in their masses just like witches at black masses. Evil minds that plot destruction, sorcerers of death's construction."

All right, so that's the Electro-Voice N/D767a. I've been Owen O'Malley and this is Gearwire.Com.