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How to ring out monitors at outside events.
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<blockquote data-quote="Riley Casey" data-source="post: 202244" data-attributes="member: 125"><p>1 - Put a sample vocal mic in front of a monitor as its likely to be for the show</p><p>2 - Put on your headphones at the console and cue up the monitor send</p><p>3 - Push up the gain to just start some feedback then pull the fader down enough to stop it</p><p>4 - take a guess at what frequency fed back and push up that slider on the graphic</p><p>5 - if that creates feedback higher or lower than the first tone heard move to the next slider and try again</p><p>6 - keep zeroing in the original feedback tone until you find the slider that most quickly recreates that particular feedback and pull that slider down to -6 db</p><p>7 - bring the master gain up again and keep repeating the process until you have brought no more than six graphic EQ sliders down</p><p>8 - go back to the stage and check the mic to be sure it still sounds good.</p><p>9 - repeat as needed to get the level you need until you reach half the sliders on the graphic - any more than that and something else is wrong.</p><p></p><p>RTA's are for sissies. More importantly this process means you train your ears to recognize frequencies during the show. Unless monitors need kick drum and bass guitar be quick to throw away anything under 120 hz and over 10khz. It'll make life easier and sound cleaner onstage. If you're afraid of blowing up a monitor with this technique put a compressor inline set at 20:1 compression ratio with a threshold low enuf to squash just about anything. Feedback will happen long before burnout.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riley Casey, post: 202244, member: 125"] 1 - Put a sample vocal mic in front of a monitor as its likely to be for the show 2 - Put on your headphones at the console and cue up the monitor send 3 - Push up the gain to just start some feedback then pull the fader down enough to stop it 4 - take a guess at what frequency fed back and push up that slider on the graphic 5 - if that creates feedback higher or lower than the first tone heard move to the next slider and try again 6 - keep zeroing in the original feedback tone until you find the slider that most quickly recreates that particular feedback and pull that slider down to -6 db 7 - bring the master gain up again and keep repeating the process until you have brought no more than six graphic EQ sliders down 8 - go back to the stage and check the mic to be sure it still sounds good. 9 - repeat as needed to get the level you need until you reach half the sliders on the graphic - any more than that and something else is wrong. RTA's are for sissies. More importantly this process means you train your ears to recognize frequencies during the show. Unless monitors need kick drum and bass guitar be quick to throw away anything under 120 hz and over 10khz. It'll make life easier and sound cleaner onstage. If you're afraid of blowing up a monitor with this technique put a compressor inline set at 20:1 compression ratio with a threshold low enuf to squash just about anything. Feedback will happen long before burnout. [/QUOTE]
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