How to stop microphone feedback fast
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2022
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In this guide I give you the questions I ask myself when I troubleshoot any sound system and how I solve the problems I find. Save this guide on your phone or post it on the wall of your sound booth as a quick reference!
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Solid demontration. I find putting all vocals through a vocal buss and inserting a 32 band graphic EQ helps to eliminate those pesky frequencies on a group level and then you can fine-tune each vocal without using up your 5-band on-board EQ. Thank you for sharing.
Great video, thanks !
What happens to the tone of the mic? Channel eq should be for setting the tone of a microphone.
You get rid of troublesome frequencies by using the system graphic EQ. Other tricks to get rid of feedback:
- don't crank up speakers too loud.
- don't put too much gain on channel compressors
- mics placement - always have mics behind speakers.
- subtractive eq - always work to attenuate frequencies on a mic channel.
If you do all these, feedback will never be a problem.
Hey James you’re exactly right! This video was just to show what I would do when all else fails. I’ve done some shows where I just had to resort to getting rid of frequencies however possible because they kept building up. But yes, you’re absolutely right about all of that! Thanks for the constructive comment
I believe that in a live situation there is not room to look for a band. There are free feedback trainers out there.
Those can help for sure if you run out of bands on the EQ. Typically if the source tone is decent though you probably won't be using all the bands on the eq or you can even use the eq on your bus if needed. There's a ton of options
There should be a dbx tool that does it automatically
I've always wondered if cutting a few frequencies like that even with a high Q value would alter the voice of the singer for example ? Or say you've got a resonance at 100 Hz with your kick drum mic, you can't really cut it since you'll lose all the essence of your kick...
Hey Paul, the sad part of the story is yes it will have an impact on the singers voice. I have also eq a monitor send like this rather than eqing the actual channel if the eq was having too much of an impact on the tone. Each situation is different and sometimes you just have to handle it on the channel, but sometimes you can get away with eqing the send instead 👍
@@jakerussellaudio thanks for your insight !
So we’re you pushing the fader up to make the channel output louder and that was an indicator of what freq was causing issues? So the higher the fader the higher the freq?
Good question! Not necessarily. In this situation I just made the setup as prone to feedback as possible so I could show how to kill it and those are the frequencies that took off first. Each situation will be different but usually once you take out a frequency or two you’ll be able to get the volume you need out of a channel 👍
@@jakerussellaudio right. It just seemed as you raised the volume the freq you were finding to cut were getting higher. I just a x32 and I need to start learning to recognize freq and stuff now
Could of been a great video but I couldn’t see what you were doing.
Sorry man! I plan on redoing this video at some point now that I have a better setup.
What is critical fr.for woman vocals?
I always think about three things for any vocals. Be sure it’s totally balanced (eq), the dynamics are controlled (compression), and it sits in the mix naturally (effects). For female vocals you might need to focus on the upper mids a little more than a male vocal, but that is dependent on the singers voice, microphone, microphone technique, etc.