New Singer Toolbox - Help Me Shop

[nedorama]

Welcome to the forums.

The SM58 is a great mic - no need to replace it.

ART Tube MP - while there are better preamps, the ART tube series are great bang for the buck. If you're using someone else's PA, you may or may not need this as most mixers you'd just plug in to a mic input.

Alesis 3630 compressor - this is not a good piece of equipment and would be better as a doorstop - it's a weak link in your audio chain. For most live singing, I'd avoid compressors on your vocal chain and learn to control your own dynamics. If you really need a compressor/limiter, a used dbx166 or an FMR RNC would do you well.

Koolertron - I'd ditch this and invest in a real wireless system with molded in-ear phones. This will net you the best improvement as you'll get better sound quality and higher signal to noise with better systems. If you don't move around too much, consider a Rolls PM50s - let's you do wired in-ear monitoring and with a mic thru, you can adjust your mic level in ears with a mix from the board of everyone else - it's your own personal "more me" control. Plus, being that it's wired, it will always work and never drop out. For $75 it's great.

Effects processing - maybe light delay or reverb, but you don't want that in your monitors as it may mess up your timing. I'd say go without effects for now.

Hope that helps.

[Kiwi]

If you can afford it, look closely at a TC Helicon Voicelive2. Sell everthing except the SM58 and just use the TC for everything.

Unless you are running wireless mic, why use a wireless monitor? Keep it simple. The headphone output on the TC could drive whatever in-ear monitors you can afford.

The TC has everything you need and then some. Preamp, EQ, Compression, Gate, FX etc And while you think you may not want the autotune or harmonies or rhythmic stuff or looping etc ... if you have any sense of adventure, this stuff is far too much fun to ignore ...

I have two of them, and just picked up the rack version which is more convenient for what I do.

It's very easy to overdo FX. But there is only one way to learn ...