I use a Sure Beta 98C. A bit more than $100, but clips on the rim a treat. However it needs an amp with phantom power.
Before I upgraded to the Beta I used a MicVox power supply with volume control built in. this has a self adhesive pad tofix it to the drum.
Your main problem with miking a bodhrán is to get an even tonal range from low to high. Bass tends to be too boomy and will need the equaliser reduced in the lower frequences. The top and middle may also need some gain to get a full response. The sound is always fantastic but the art is to get it to sound like the drum is being played acousticly but just louder. That can be quite a challenge.
The small clip-on mics used on other instruments are almost universally electret condenser mics. If you stick one in a drum you'll overload it and just hear massive distortion.
You really need to mic drums with a dynamic mic, preferably a drum mic. Unfortunately they're all quite big.
So if you can't sit still and play like a proper bodhranist, then an SM57 and a roll of gaffer tape is probably the best solution.
Standing or sitting, a bodhran is one of the only occasions where I'll say an SM57 is a good choice. You can get a mic clip that attaches to the rim of the drum - drummers use these for their snare drums. Run the cord behind one of the crossbars so it never puts strain on the mic itself, that's likely to pull the whole rig loose. If you haven't got crossbars, go get your bodhran fixed.
I love the image of a band on the stage, with some guy standing there pounding away with all his force on a sofa cushion. That's brilliant.
Even better when you consider that crates and cutlery are actually treated by some as serious instruments.
Now, the shopping cart, that's an instrument - but you'd have to have been in Portland in the days of Hitting Birth to know what that's about.
It's interesting to watch the discussions here when people make the wrong assumptions about a person posing a question. Bodhran automatically means it's a windup. Just imagine for a minute that the person is a highly skilled and wonderful musician---do you make jokes then?
Bodhran clip on mics
Bodhran clip on mics
How are ye,
Was wondering if anyone can tell me where to get a decent clip on mic for a bodhran for around $100
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by Pio Ryan
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
Ebay
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by mcknowall
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
check out mics for trumpets or sax
they've clip and a goose neck
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by padre
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I use a Sure Beta 98C. A bit more than $100, but clips on the rim a treat. However it needs an amp with phantom power.
Before I upgraded to the Beta I used a MicVox power supply with volume control built in. this has a self adhesive pad tofix it to the drum.
Your main problem with miking a bodhrán is to get an even tonal range from low to high. Bass tends to be too boomy and will need the equaliser reduced in the lower frequences. The top and middle may also need some gain to get a full response. The sound is always fantastic but the art is to get it to sound like the drum is being played acousticly but just louder. That can be quite a challenge.
Happy drumming.
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by curiadydrwm
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
Don't bodhran players sit down when they play? What wrong with a regular mike?
Or are you one of those who likes to jump around on stage while whacking the thing?
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by ...
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
Here you go chaps:
http://www.drumdojo.com/bod_micing_2.htm
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by Gran Cassa
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I would happily jump 'round the stage "whacking the thing" if there was a quid in it.
(Been doin it for fun for 55 years or so)
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by mcknowall
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"Don't bodhran players sit down when they play?"
How would anyone know?
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by Steve Shaw
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Some performers prefer to stand. A clip on is much better in these circumstances.
By the way, you don't 'whack' a bodhran, you play it.
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by curiadydrwm
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
Some people sit down to pee, what's that got to do with it?
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by mcknowall
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
The small clip-on mics used on other instruments are almost universally electret condenser mics. If you stick one in a drum you'll overload it and just hear massive distortion.
You really need to mic drums with a dynamic mic, preferably a drum mic. Unfortunately they're all quite big.
So if you can't sit still and play like a proper bodhranist, then an SM57 and a roll of gaffer tape is probably the best solution.
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by skreech
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
No compromises, you play a bodhrán.
And proper bodhránists can play standing up or sitting down.
A flexible clip on mike placed inside the outer edge of the drum but with the mike itself outside the enclosure, works perfectly
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by curiadydrwm
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
I assume that as we're discussing amplifying a bodhran we are at least talking Albert Hall here?
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by Steve Shaw
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
No. Just any event where the other instruments are miked up too.
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by curiadydrwm
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
Standing or sitting, a bodhran is one of the only occasions where I'll say an SM57 is a good choice. You can get a mic clip that attaches to the rim of the drum - drummers use these for their snare drums. Run the cord behind one of the crossbars so it never puts strain on the mic itself, that's likely to pull the whole rig loose. If you haven't got crossbars, go get your bodhran fixed.
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
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You know them punters love that thumpety ploopety thwack whack. Minus well turn it up and make whoever is paying the band happy.
...and that's the story from the crude materialism desk, back over to the arts and decency section!
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
I love the image of a band on the stage, with some guy standing there pounding away with all his force on a sofa cushion. That's brilliant.
Even better when you consider that crates and cutlery are actually treated by some as serious instruments.
Now, the shopping cart, that's an instrument - but you'd have to have been in Portland in the days of Hitting Birth to know what that's about.
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
Don't you find that your monitor and speakers kind of get in the way of session intimacy?
# Posted on December 15th 2010 by Atahualpa Quigley
Re: Bodhran clip on mics
It's interesting to watch the discussions here when people make the wrong assumptions about a person posing a question. Bodhran automatically means it's a windup. Just imagine for a minute that the person is a highly skilled and wonderful musician---do you make jokes then?
I'm gonna go learn a new tune now...
# Posted on December 16th 2010 by kennedy
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Guilty as charged. I meant no harm - 'twas simply an attempt to inject a little humour.
# Posted on December 16th 2010 by sara505sings