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Eq'ing a microphone to not feedback at all
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<blockquote data-quote="Josh Millward" data-source="post: 201752" data-attributes="member: 970"><p>There are a couple really important things to keep in mind when watching that video:</p><p></p><p>1. He is yelling into that microphone rather loudly. Yes, it is amplifying his voice, but notice that he is right up on the mic and his voice is quite loud. This allows the input gain of the microphone channel to be lower to begin with.</p><p></p><p>2. They are using wedges with large format compression drivers in them with lots of power behind them. This allows the system to remain linear with large peaks. You simply can not get this same kind of performance out of little lightweight wedges with a small amplifier, it does not work.</p><p></p><p>3. Having the system processors tuned correctly is also a big deal. You should be able to get tunings from the manufacturer that will allow that kind of performance if you are using those kinds of tools.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I can't stand a graphic EQ, regardless how many bands it has on it. I very much prefer a fully parametric EQ with at least 5 bands or more per channel. I can get similar performance to what he is demonstrating here when biamping Peavey QW-M wedges with a Pro-9200 amp and an appropriate DSP based processor. I do not use 31 band GEQ's, instead I use the parametric EQ's on the console outputs.</p><p></p><p>However, I can not get that kind of performance when using Peavey SP or PV series monitors, they just don't have the sauce that is in the QW-M.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Josh Millward, post: 201752, member: 970"] There are a couple really important things to keep in mind when watching that video: 1. He is yelling into that microphone rather loudly. Yes, it is amplifying his voice, but notice that he is right up on the mic and his voice is quite loud. This allows the input gain of the microphone channel to be lower to begin with. 2. They are using wedges with large format compression drivers in them with lots of power behind them. This allows the system to remain linear with large peaks. You simply can not get this same kind of performance out of little lightweight wedges with a small amplifier, it does not work. 3. Having the system processors tuned correctly is also a big deal. You should be able to get tunings from the manufacturer that will allow that kind of performance if you are using those kinds of tools. Personally, I can't stand a graphic EQ, regardless how many bands it has on it. I very much prefer a fully parametric EQ with at least 5 bands or more per channel. I can get similar performance to what he is demonstrating here when biamping Peavey QW-M wedges with a Pro-9200 amp and an appropriate DSP based processor. I do not use 31 band GEQ's, instead I use the parametric EQ's on the console outputs. However, I can not get that kind of performance when using Peavey SP or PV series monitors, they just don't have the sauce that is in the QW-M. [/QUOTE]
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