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It was a good day when Shure came out with this Discontinued Microphones PDF listing years ago http://www.shure.com/americas/support/user-guides/discontinued-products/.... This made it easy to find which microphones had good elements, but were cheap due to their awkward size or lack of cool art deco styling.

Yesterday I shared some reasons of why I don't like volume controls. Here are some reasons why a volume control can be good...

1) Set your volume control to 10, and the amp as loud as it can go just before feedback. Now drop your volume on the mic to 8. This 8 will be your normal volume, even for solos (remember to play softly as your normal playing volume... you want to have dynamic range so that you can play louder for your solo). If the band gets too excited and plays too loudly, then you know you have two more notches on your volume to get louder. continue reading...