Bedroom Vocal Set-Up

[Michael_V]

My wife sings and I play electric guitar for a worship team. We practice our songs at home along with CDs, but it is impossible to hear her voice over my amp. (Yes, I know I could turn it down). I don't want to further clutter up our bedroom by adding a PA system. What I would like to do is run a microphone and the CD player into a 2-4 channel mixer, which would then go to the receiver and out to my stereo speakers. It would be great if this mixer served as a mic preamp/processor with reverb. Small size so it could fit more or less discreetly with my audio equipment, too. Does something like this exist? Any other ideas to amplify her vocals???

[loudboy]

You'll probably blow you're stereo doing this.

I would suggest a small mixer, a headphone amp and some decent cans.

[Scott Whigham]

+1 to what loudboy suggest. If you don't want to add PA speakers, I don't know of another option.

If that just absolutely doesn't do it for you, consider something like the Bose L1 to run the voice + CDs through. It's not cheap but it's a great combo of "compact" and "good sounding".

[GCDEF]

There are a lot of acoustic guitar amps that also have mic inputs. Perhaps consider one of those instead of the amp you're using now. I don't recommend the home stereo approach either.

[buddaman71]

I recommend the acoustic amp-with vocal input channel as well. Dual purpose, as you could use it for any future acoustic applications.

[TNO]

Maybe a TC Helicon Voicetone R1 and an inexpensive powered speaker (like the Kustom stuff on sale at Musician's Friend).

[grateful.ed]

Originally Posted by buddaman71

I recommend the acoustic amp-with vocal input channel as well. Dual purpose, as you could use it for any future acoustic applications.

Yep, I have a Roland AC60 and use it just as a small PA for vocals all the time.

[harpinon]

Though Crate amps are shunned here, they do make rather impressive acoustic amps with XLR inputs that are cheap and sound great.

[Michael_V]

Lots of great suggestions! Thanks! I will be shopping this weekend!