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<blockquote data-quote="Kevin Maxwell" data-source="post: 201786" data-attributes="member: 321"><p>EQing monitors.</p><p> </p><p>Some of the things that help have already been mentioned. To get the best gain before feedback a good monitor is a must. The trick I use is I use SMAART I put pink noise into the monitor so it is going thru the monitor EQ. I route the vocal mic pre-fader into one of the channels of SMAART. I aim the vocal mic into the monitor (be sure the mic is only routed to SMAART at this time and not to the house or monitor feeds) and proceed to EQ the frequencies that are sticking out. This process usually eliminates needing a person to stand in place with or without a hat. Then the next thing to do is listen to see if you got carried away or not. Many times I also find that I need to carve a little bit around 250 out also. If you did it right and it worked it will still sound good and be resistant to feedback. I have been able to make monitors extremely feedback resistant with this method (most of the time) sometimes it doesn’t work the first time you try it and you have to do it from scratch again. I like to start at the lower frequencies and go up to the high frequencies it seems to work better this way. I have gotten monitors to be extremely feedback resistant to the point of someone pointing a mic at a monitor and it is not feeding back.</p><p> </p><p>One time just for my knowledge I ran a cable from a monitor on stage to another one of the same model and had it next to me so I could hear what the person testing the monitor (talking and yelling into it) and telling me to keep turning it up was hearing and if and when it feedback. It was at an unbelievably painful level and I vowed never to do that again. And one of the musicians had arrived towards the end of the experiment. I told the guy I was working with that that level was insane and if they ask for more than that they must be deaf. A little bit later the musician sheepishly asked for more knowing what I had said. So I gave him more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kevin Maxwell, post: 201786, member: 321"] EQing monitors. Some of the things that help have already been mentioned. To get the best gain before feedback a good monitor is a must. The trick I use is I use SMAART I put pink noise into the monitor so it is going thru the monitor EQ. I route the vocal mic pre-fader into one of the channels of SMAART. I aim the vocal mic into the monitor (be sure the mic is only routed to SMAART at this time and not to the house or monitor feeds) and proceed to EQ the frequencies that are sticking out. This process usually eliminates needing a person to stand in place with or without a hat. Then the next thing to do is listen to see if you got carried away or not. Many times I also find that I need to carve a little bit around 250 out also. If you did it right and it worked it will still sound good and be resistant to feedback. I have been able to make monitors extremely feedback resistant with this method (most of the time) sometimes it doesn’t work the first time you try it and you have to do it from scratch again. I like to start at the lower frequencies and go up to the high frequencies it seems to work better this way. I have gotten monitors to be extremely feedback resistant to the point of someone pointing a mic at a monitor and it is not feeding back. One time just for my knowledge I ran a cable from a monitor on stage to another one of the same model and had it next to me so I could hear what the person testing the monitor (talking and yelling into it) and telling me to keep turning it up was hearing and if and when it feedback. It was at an unbelievably painful level and I vowed never to do that again. And one of the musicians had arrived towards the end of the experiment. I told the guy I was working with that that level was insane and if they ask for more than that they must be deaf. A little bit later the musician sheepishly asked for more knowing what I had said. So I gave him more. [/QUOTE]
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