This section is meant to serve as a guide to help you achieve the same quality sounds that dc*b achieves at their home church (UBC, Waco, Texas) on a budget. You can also save pictures to your desktop and re-open for more detailed viewing.

Kick drum mic placement - dc*b uses two mics on the kick drum:

Shure Beta 52 (left), and Shure Beta 91 (right).  The Beta 91 is placed on a blanket inside the drum halfway between the head and the front enclosure.  Toms - they use the Shure Beta 98 (top right).  Snare - Shure SM57.  High Hats and Overheads are Shure KSM models. 

Drum Mic’ing (except for kick drum) can vary when they’re on the road.

Jack’s Divided by 13 SJT37 amp head runs into a Mesa 2x12 cab backstage

Dave’s Silvertone electric runs into this Marshall amp head which drives a Mesa closed-back cab backstage mic’ed with a Shure SM57

Dave’s electric is a 1965 Silvertone Teisco #WG-2L and his acoustics are Tom Anderson Crowdsters, custom made for Dave by Tom Anderson

The Silvertone runs through this Keeley (and B-Wack) Mod. Antique Weston Voltage Meter

with Line 6 DL4 components inside (you can see the silver DL4 switches at the front of the box)

Dave’s Acoustic guitars run into this 2 Channel Pendulum SPS-1 Pre-Amp and then to the board

(Mark’s knee)

Mark testing out 2 new pedals - original pedals shown right of board.

His pedal board runs into this Bad Cad Lynx 50 watt amp head.  The tone knob (second from left) is broken right now, but his ideal tones settings are marked on the tape above.  You can see a few adjustments on the rest of the knobs that may differ slightly from the tape.  The amp powers the matching Bad Cat cab backstage, mic’ed with a Shure SM57

Hogan runs his Zeta violins into his pedal board and then into a Mesa Lone Star Special tube amp

Mike runs his original 62 Fender Jazz Bass into his pedal board, then into a Radial Engineering Pro DI direct box.  His signal goes to the house board from there, but also follows the out (labeled “thru“) from the DI into his Ampeg SVT-VR amp head and Ampeg 810E cab.

Mike uses the “normal” channel on this amp.

The band uses Sennheiser EK300 IEM G2 receivers (bodypack) and Sennheiser EW300 IEM G2 transmitters (pictured in Pro Co Momentum rack below) instead of the Shure PSM600 and 700 they previously used.  Dave told me they prefer the smaller size of the body packs, which also use AA batteries (= cheaper) instead of the traditional 9V.  They also get a wider variety of frequencies or channels to choose from which results in clearer signal quality. 

These are accompanied by Sennheiser’s A2003-UHF Antennas which also insure a clear signal.