How to Prevent Feedback on Stage by Sweetwater
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- Опубліковано 29 лют 2016
- Sweetwater's Don Carr presents some great tips on avoiding feedback while you're performing onstage. From mic-handling techniques to speaker positions, these tips will help you avoid feedback even on small stages.
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I've ran live sound for going on 15 years now and I stil love to watch these beginner videos. I already know all the content in these videos but I still enjoy them. When it comes to feedback you should also do a short video on "ringing out" your monitors and tuning FOH for the room/venue with EQ. Great videos, would love to see more live sound content on this channel. Keep up the good work guys!
I'm starting as an intern at a live music venue and I've been watching tons of videos but I wanted to ask you if you know of any specif ones I should watch or any resources that could help me?
Pretty sure the example of different polar patterns would be more effective if you had not used the already super cardiod Beta 58A as your example of a cardiod mic.
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In relatively low/mid volume live settings such as acoustic gigs, you can usually have the FOH speakers behind you without feedback if you sing closely into dynamic stage mics (with good feedback rejection such as an SM 58, etc) with strong vocal volume so mic preamp gain can be kept low. That way you can monitor what the house is getting and enjoy a nice stage sound without hauling monitors. If you are behind FOH speakers you are going to have lots of low frequency rumble come off the back of the speakers polluting your stage sound...because lowers freqs are more omnidirectional. My band enjoys great stage sound with no feedback...but we are all loud singers so mic gains can be kept reasonably low.
Thank you Sir for the video... great explanation
lol, I've been playing for over 20 years, have set up sound many times, and in my exhaustion, I placed our new PA behind us. My wife kept yelling at me that it should go in front of us, and I kept telling her she was wrong, until it fed back for the 5th time, then it clicked...
😂 😂 😂
You're hard headed
Don't see how she puts up with you.
With a hypercardioid mic the best rejection is at a 45 degree angle to the rear axis of the capsule. Or 135 degrees off axis from the capsule. At 180 it is more prone to feedback.
Back in the day we didn't have these videos or even computers. These things are priceless, I learned by trial and error over a long length of time. Now you have nice people to help you learn the ropes. Be grateful.
DON!!!!! we love ya man ... great to know you're doing videos like this.
That was very Helpful!!!!!!
Thank you so much sir for your packaged information
It’s my favorite demo guy again!! I didn’t get to meet you at GearFest this year.....☺️
very helpful, thanks very much
I like this video.
Straight forward
off brand kashmir playing at the beginning?
Nice, I look forward to meeting you at Gearfest!
@sweetwater I think you are not supposed to put monitors behind the super-cardioid since unlike cardioid it picks from the back. Also, is that one he said is a cardioid a sm58a? if so it is a super-cardioid too!
Right! I learned the hard way
Oh my! Whoever manages the sournd at EVERY VENUE needs to watch this!
What happens if you allow audio feedback to persist? (How violently might one of the components rupture?)
I'm surprised to find no answer on Google or UA-cam.
I think the best things to do was to use dbx driverack venue 360. With advance feedback suppression.
Solid
I have a question could you put 2 monitors on 2 separate tripod on the back of the stage and would there be feedback?
Except that I use a Bose tower PA/monitor that are made to be behind you. Any tips for feedback in that setting? Thanks Don Carr
Eric Perry To avoid feedback, sing loudly and directly (lips brushing the mic) into dynamic mics with good feedback rejection. That way you can keep mic gains low.
This doesn't take into account the drums, bass amp, guitar amps and keyboard amp on smaller stages. Very hard to not have feedback at some point as the band moves around a bit on the small stages. Add to that acoustic guitars with internal mics that feedback too. dbx driverack has helped me out since I can't adjust as quick as these units can.
I am running sound for a band and I am having issues with the low end being way too much. It seems like the kick drum might be resonating to a point where it’s like it gets overloaded and there becomes a massive rumble through the PA. Can anyone think of a way to solve this? Is it possibly bass cab placement, gain staging, a combination of both?
Hello! I'd recommend using a gate on the kick channel, compressing it properly, using feedback suppression, or notching out that frequency with graphic EQ.
Thanks for the interest!
Kevin Spunde, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1732, Kevin_Spunde@Sweetwater.com
I buy Italian stage 6 Chanel mixer. But has no mids. What u suggest
4 of my big speakers are in front & feedback is still killing our ears. That didn’t help. Any suggestions?
How do you prevent feedback from an acoustic guitar on stage in front of a monitor? I have a sound hole muffler but I still tend to get some feedback. How should the EQ on the mixer be set to get good sound yet reduce that low rumble?
Hello, bcain5823! There’s no hard and fast rule for EQ to prevent feedback; That’s because it ultimately depends on the room and what all acoustically is going on there. If you’re getting a low rumble, then I would put a high pass filter on your channel in the mixer, as well as on the monitor send. Ultimately most feedback is resolved through proper gain staging, intelligent EQ’ing for your specific space, and implementing a noise gate. All of those aspects take practice and experience to develop the ear for.
Give us a shout and we can discuss in more depth! Thanks for the interest!
James Masterson, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1641, james_masterson@sweetwater.com
Wait...He said to not place any speaker behind you as it will gain feedback from the mic, has the monitor right in front of him but says the monitor should be directly behind you?
what about Guitar feedback?
Prevent?
I was actually looking for a tutorial on how to make feedback deliberately happen for practical jokes.
Well, I guess you got that since they gave you a solid 3 examples on exactly how you can do it. I wouldn't recommend doing it purposefully though...
i thought i heard "over 2000 years on the road"
kashmire
These points are just okay at the very least. The true way to prevent feedback is to tune (EQ) your speakers and dial out the frequencies that your speakers don't like. You can mix until u do this. And once u do this, u can point your microphone right at your speakers, even put it right in front of the speaker, and it won't feedback, depending on how loud your pushing your p.a. system.
wrong! these tips in the video are the foundation of preventing feedback. Eqing problematic frequencies should be secondary because it also affects the overall frequency response of the PA system. correct mic placement relative to speakers and monitors solve 99% of feedback related issues.
If your mic is pointed at the speakers no amount of EQ'ing will prevent feedback from occurring. Good microphone and speaker placement is always the single most important way of preventing the feedback. Ringing out the systems comes after.
@@ctzeninsane I mean, if you take all frequencies out then that should do it ;)
Or, “best ways to create feedback, wolf eyes”
Bgm reminds me of "Crow zero"😂