Why do I keep getting electric shocks / tingles through microphones when I'm playing and doing backing vocals? It's something that's been happening occasionally since I started playing in bands years ago and I got a nasty shock thru the nose at practice last night 😕
I generally like to get close to the mike, as you're meant to with sm58's and the like, so contact is inevitable. I just don't like that sometimes it fizzes or shocks my face. One of our singer's friends is in a band where the guitarist was fatally electrocuted during a rehearsal and I don't particularly want the same thing happening to me.
Anyone got any experience of this? (PS. we were at hired rehearsal studios last night so I can only vouch for the fact the my guitar is correctly earthed, the other equipment is not mine).
