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Ah, the old question: How do I make the vocals heard over a band with a tiny PA? It's not always easy. Compression won't help you; it may actually make things worse by making feedback more likely. It sounds like you're using underpowered PAs, and if you want the vocals to be loud enough you'll need the band to play more quietly. But the band has to want to ...

Neil Fein wrote a great post about what you can do, but another thing to consider is to make sure you talk with the sound guy about how you want it to sound. If there is a dedicated engineer there and it is a smaller venue, chances are good that they aren't very good and may be used to the "living room experience" ie, crank the bass and the guitars and ...

The quick and dirty explanation. Dynamic: Usually but not always cheaper more rugged and less likely to be damaged so a lot of stage work is done with dynamics Used for high sound pressure work like on snare drum or instrument amp Sometimes used in studio work though usually vocals and acoustic instruments will need condensers typical example Shure SM58 ...

As Dr Mayhem says a dynamic mic moves a coil in a magnetic field to generate the electrical output, and condensers are based around changing capacitance of the transducer. Condensers require a pre-amp and power. The power for this can either be supplied by an internal battery or by 'phantom power' a DC voltage (usually between 9 and 48V) output by the ...

Dynamic microphones are basically loudspeakers in reverse - instead of a voltage in an electromagnet moving a cone, sound waves move a magnetic material in and out of a coil, generating electricity. They are robust and have high gain so are used on stage a lot. Condenser microphones are a capacitor where one of the two plates moves with the sound waves. ...

A non-technical suggestion: consider revising your song arrangements and playing style so that the instrumentalists interplay with the vocalist — be quiet when she is singing, be loud when she isn't. Create interlocking patterns, moving the accented notes you play to occur when the vocalist takes a breath or pauses between phrases. Make sure every ...