Mic'l recently expounded: > >You can use a cardboard TP tube, or paper towel tube instead of a mic to >get an almost mic'd-like effect. Cup it tightly now... > >The "wah wah" you get covering the end of the tube is pretty cool. > >My wife says it sounds like a completely different instrument, going >thru the tube. (This is reminiscent of the old thread on megaphones.) >
Along these (odd) lines, and this goes back to the thread about cheap off-the-wall mics:
A lot of small stereos have mixing mic jacks. A while back I thought I might play along with some tunes through one, but didn't have a mic. I did have a pair of cheap walkman headphones, though, and so I plugged them into the mic jack.
Only one of the tiny speakers gave any response (stereo-male into mono-female after all). But getting a tight cup around the harp with it in the palm of my hand, and cranking up the volume, made some pretty decent noise. Emphasis on noise, but hey, in a pinch some beginners might get a vague notion of how they sound amplified, at minimal cost.
Now, if I taped that little speaker inside a TP tube.......Nah!
