How to Eliminate Microphone Feedback

How to Eliminate Microphone Feedback - As Fast As Possible

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5 жыл бұрын

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Feedback in your church sound system is the fastest way to get a #soundtechsolo. In this video I'll show you 7 easy steps for how to eliminate microphone feedback, so your church worship team can lead without distractions.
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@AttawayAudio 5 жыл бұрын

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How to EQ with an electric drum set that won't let you eq the parts of the drum set separately.

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@crouton3455 4 жыл бұрын

After watching a 10 minute video of some dude mostly talking about himself and not giving any actual advice this video was really refreshing. To the point and actual good tips.

@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

Haha! Thanks Crouton!

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@awesomethings6124 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Straight the point, and very informative. This helped me a lot.

@bartman156. 3 жыл бұрын

I'm doing the technician course in music and this was my homework. I'm enjoying this.

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

fun homework assignment!

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A very fast and informative newbie guide, so I'll give it a thumbs up despite not learning anything new myself.

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@chandlerkessler9871 Жыл бұрын

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@ednaafiriyie9180 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sound Ninja. Quick and fast. I am making a presentation before church group on zoom. I bought a Maono. Thanks for advice.

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! Looks like a nice little mic

@jeremybrase3727 7 ай бұрын

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@tomd3630 4 жыл бұрын

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@majorredbeard Ай бұрын

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@n.h.moreno 4 жыл бұрын

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@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

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@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

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@Ourhomeschooladventures 2 ай бұрын

So helpful

@kevinperera18 6 ай бұрын

Sound Ninja!! Thank you!

@alipatekris5479 5 ай бұрын

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@elijahmwilajr6625 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video

@nicholassefah1031 4 жыл бұрын

Sound ninja. Thanks for the video

@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome Nick! Thanks for watching!

@dafidkemuol8994 3 жыл бұрын

I like his explanation with a smile 😀😬

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

😃

@djabthrash Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video

@ekowahyu7732 3 жыл бұрын

best explanation video, thanks mate

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@whistlemusic8572 3 жыл бұрын

Love your video's brother. Would be awesome if you did a video on properly setting up floor monitors on a stage.

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like fun! Except everyone i know has ditched wedges as much as possible

@balkansavage 4 жыл бұрын

Sound njinja! Great tips! 🎤🔥🔥🔥

@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Vu Le!

@garychadwick1240 2 жыл бұрын

Sound ninja! Thanks

@keith_hudson 4 жыл бұрын

Really enjoy the content.

@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Keith!

@javierf55 3 ай бұрын

Splendid video, so useful. In my case, I have a Fender Hotrod Deluxe amp, plus a Shure SM58 mic. I recently bought a Hohner Crossover C harmonica, so I bought a Shure A85F transformer. but the problem now is that I'm getting so high feedback noise even with minimum volume; the solution at this moment is to play the harmonica, like twenty feet away from the amp, which is not practical for rehearsing.

@christianleetrager4605 5 ай бұрын

For house bands and bands playing small venues with the monitors nearby, you absolutely want a cardioid mic. Cardioid mics are BEST for cutting down on feedback and crowd noise bleeding into the mic. Super-cardioid mics cause more feedback.

@campoarmonico 2 жыл бұрын

Sound Ninja!

@zekeyv 4 жыл бұрын

Sound ninja thanks man!

@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

It's truly my pleasure Ezekiel! Thanks for being a sound ninja 🙌

@kingkauri5900 5 ай бұрын

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@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

God bless you Eldad!

@greghenderson4856 3 жыл бұрын

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@paulmorrey733 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@michaelanderson4265 6 ай бұрын

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@getsmarter5412 2 ай бұрын

While looking for feedback, protect your ears and speakers by dropping the threshold of a downstream limiter as low as it'l go with NO auto gain adjust. This will of course limit any sound coming through to a very low level, including feedback. Great thing to see and hear your pa feedback at a controlled -40. Wanna reduce the chance of feedback? Throw every other front line vocal mic out of phase. Rather than multiple mics loading up, they now cancel that loading, stablizing both mains and monitors. -Your welcome.

@AttawayAudio 2 ай бұрын

great tip! thanks

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@devin1leon 2 жыл бұрын

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Very nice thanks...

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@jonathanjoseph8030 4 жыл бұрын

I never thought about puting wedges between the polar patern gaps, sound ninja

@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a big help! Thanks for the comment Jonathan!

@natephil-ariyo7402 Жыл бұрын

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@billwhitfield7437 2 жыл бұрын

Ya nailed it

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@lofenoialof5320 4 жыл бұрын

How far from a wireless lavalier mic would you recommend for placing 2 12" speakers on stands? Thanks!

@SBN35 4 жыл бұрын

Love your videos! I am just getting into sound mixing at a new church plant and we are all a bit lost to how to do it right. What do you do when you are getting feedback on the pastor's headset mic? Having a hard time capturing good clarity and power without getting feedback issues.

@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Headset mics and lapel mics are extremely challenging. If you can, try using a graphic EQ on it to notch out the frequencies that feedback first. Do this by having your pastor (or someone with a similarly shaped face) speak in their "spot" on stage and slowly turn it up until the first frequency starts to feed back. Pull that same frequency down on the graphic EQ, and then start pushing it up a little bit more. There may be a point where it's just "loud enough" to be intelligible, and then you can EQ the mic with the channel's parametric EQ to sound natural (this part is a challenge in itself). Other considerations are the mic itself - a cheap one is going to be harder to get to sound good and not feed back. Plus all the other stuff I said in the video 😃

@eskuadron4-407 Жыл бұрын

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@tomasenrique Жыл бұрын

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@davejr08 4 жыл бұрын

Sound Ninja!!! Also love the comment to mute all unused channels!

@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Island Dave! 🙌🏼

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@christee299 4 ай бұрын

Sound Ninja! Lol. Thx 😁

@billytremoloband7456 2 жыл бұрын

New sub here, been watching your vids on vocal/drum comp , very interesting! If limited on drum mic channels (we only have a simple analog desk in our band) would it be possible to use the likes of a beta 57 on the snare but with its rear facing the hi hats therefore picking up hats due to being super cardioid ……..? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@FibroTony 3 жыл бұрын

Sound ninja!

@DhanjitMr 4 жыл бұрын

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@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dhanjit!

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@@AttawayAudio most welcome sir..

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@ShannonLandsberger 2 жыл бұрын

I have heard that adding a bit of delay can also help with feedback. I haven't had a chance to test this yet. Your thoughts?

@trendytrenessh462 2 жыл бұрын

Sound Ninja

@vanboii919 2 жыл бұрын

Sound ninja

@MrFuzzyGreen 2 жыл бұрын

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@protoman247 4 жыл бұрын

SOUND NINJA!!!

@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

Keep it quiet! Didn’t you learn anything in ninja school???

@protoman247 4 жыл бұрын

Must’ve missed that day :(

@thereturnwoo 2 жыл бұрын

We practice in a small rooms you can book. We are constantly having issues with the feedback to the point that we have to have the mic too low to really gear the vocals. I do believe we've tried to do most of these tips but the size of the room etc doesn't really cater to it

@sethhutch9012 2 жыл бұрын

ive been in the same situation. The solution ive found is to move over to headphone monitoring. I send my mix into a headphone amp/splitter and everybody can plug in. Its not the perfect situation, but being a loud band in a small room has lots of issues that the headphones help fix.

@Hey_you_guys 6 ай бұрын

Only way to deal with it is using in ear monitors or have everyone play quieter.

@MatthewDudek Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's great and I understand it, but will all analogue gear, it is a bit more tricky than just pushing some buttons and lookin g at the screens. Also, I get Comb feedback patterns where there are hot-spots in various places between speakers that just ring no matter how much I try to correct the EQ and gains... Any ideas? I'm not a ninja... maybe ninja-ish, sorta.

@Shadow91507 4 жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq.

@AttawayAudio 4 жыл бұрын

It depends on the rating for your speakers and amps. It’s most likely that the clipping amps would damage a speaker component, and if it’s only one frequency, probably only the single driver that’s reproducing it. Or the amp. But it’s probably like asking “how long can I redline my car’s engine before it blows up?” 🤣

@XenoTravis 2 ай бұрын

HAHAHA I am sitting here at my desk wondering how other people are using their good mics on those desktop spring stands and mine just instantly gets feedback. .... I just turned the mic diaphragm to be in front... Fine now. Got the MXL 990 Blackout. I didn't know people get them to take them apart and mod them. That is dope as an embedded engineer (that sucks at soldering or really any tool that isn't a drum key).

@AttawayAudio 2 ай бұрын

Yeah turning the mic the right direction DEFINITELY helps.

@Evapors Жыл бұрын

sound ninja

@djmarybaloo 2 жыл бұрын

sound Ninja

@Salem-cc1kk 3 жыл бұрын

Sound ninja indeed

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

nice 🤣

@gearjammer89 5 жыл бұрын

Could you please do a video on properly setting gain. Thanks!

@AttawayAudio 5 жыл бұрын

Sure thing! Is there anything specific you’d like me to address in it? I’ve got a script written but haven’t shot it yet

@gearjammer89 5 жыл бұрын

@@AttawayAudio I guess just a general guide as to ideal fader placement and how much gain should be added. One problem I encounter is the worship leader has a really strong singing voice but talks really quiet when praying or doing announcements. So if I turn up the gain to be able to hear him while talking then it's very distorted when he sings. I use a Soundcraft SI Expression mixer.

@AttawayAudio 5 жыл бұрын

Definitely set the gain for the singing - the distortion of clipping a digital input is bad news. You'll just have to crank the fader when he's speaking. Compression can help too - use the makeup gain to turn it back up after reducing the level with the compressor, giving his quieter sections a little more juice before the fader.

@ilovegsus 2 жыл бұрын

SOUND NINJA

@AkereleOlalekan 16 күн бұрын

Pls can u make a tutorial on how to use feedback destroyer FBQ1000

@PixelPotato 3 жыл бұрын

FREAKING OW. The feedback at the start DESTROYED my ears- NOT OKAY

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry 🤷‍♂️

@PixelPotato 3 жыл бұрын

@@AttawayAudio It's alright, thank you for the helpful video and putting it out there- I think I just got irritated because that actually did hurt my ears lol and also I had my mic on and it destroyed their ears as well so I was a little grouchy. Sorry for taking it out on you

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

no sweat! sorry again!

@Th1460br 2 жыл бұрын

What about the gratful dead and the wall of sound thing? I mean, when the speaker are behind the microphones ??

@ilerioyedele8481 3 ай бұрын

What was that frequency analysis tool that was shown at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="103">1:43</a>?

@travisgulley2652 2 жыл бұрын

As well as microphone feedback occurring when a microphone is pointed at a full range pa speaker Does microphone feedback occur if you were to point the microphone at a low frequency pa subwoofer

@AttawayAudio 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely. But it's likely you'll have the HPF up on the mic so it's typically less of an issue.

@BonafideToolJunkie 10 ай бұрын

Can you also remedy the feedback problem by clicking Phase switch?

@unfinishedworship3173 2 жыл бұрын

One of my all-time pet peeves. In movies when someone uses a mic and they put a feedback squeal to inform the viewing audience that they are using a mic. 🙄

@AttawayAudio 2 жыл бұрын

lol I just had a montage go through my mind of all the movies I've seen that in. There was a Don Knotts movie where it happened at a political rally and he called it out "electrical engineer must be a democrat" 🤣🤣🤣

@moniquesmiths4224 Жыл бұрын

How to use phase shifting in the congegration to avoid feedback on monitors.

@icecreamdaddy 2 жыл бұрын

sound ninja! LOLz

@xa_reno 3 ай бұрын

Most difficult and most technical is no.6 and it is also the most useful if positionings are not an option and in small closed rooms..

@deejayaraullo43 3 жыл бұрын

I’m wondering how to do it with headphones. I just got a new headphone with built-in microphone and I’m getting a ”flat-line” feedback sound which I don't know where is coming from. 😩

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, not sure how to help you with that! Sounds like a problem with the headphones themselves

@djmarybaloo Жыл бұрын

#soundninja

@bartman156. 3 жыл бұрын

sound ninja.

@AttawayAudio 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching bartman156!

@avindraboodram6998 2 жыл бұрын

Sound ninja...

@channelyoutube7542 2 жыл бұрын

Sound ninja 😂😂😂😂

@revelationevents2323 6 ай бұрын

Do you recommend the sq7 from Allen and Heath? I’m thinking about getting it after a whole lot of research. But I see posts of people talking about problems. I would really appreciate your comment. Blessings brother

@AttawayAudio 5 ай бұрын

I love the SQ series from A&H. The quirks are slight enough that it doesn't really bother me too much.

@revelationevents2323 5 ай бұрын

@@AttawayAudiothanks for the answer my brother. I greatly appreciate it. God bless

@f00kwhiteblackracismwarsh07 Жыл бұрын

we have 5 worship leaders and one of the girl voice is very quiet that i have to increase gain a lot for her voice to be loud enough even for the back seat of the church but it only introduce feedback easily. i have not tried GEQ which i think might help but concern that it will mess up her tone. She like most female has mid-treble tone of voice and no bass so GEQ will only really mess up. Help

@AttawayAudio Жыл бұрын

GEQ doesn't necessarily mess everything up. You just have to be surgical with it. You might also try a different mic for her and make sure her mic technique keeps her microphone close to her mouth. Not everyone who learns to sing learns how to use a mic, so keep that in mind.

@xaviertr6240 10 ай бұрын

my cat chewed the antenna can that cause feedback?

@damianchristie288 2 жыл бұрын

if you have a feedback problem and are using an sm58 mike it is likely if you get rid of the sm58 you will also get rid of the feedback (give it as a present to someone you dont like ) and get a decent mike

@martinvannostrand8488 Жыл бұрын

Well it’s the industry standard vocal mic so we better know how to use it