Sound check - echo

[Jean-Daniel Gamache]

Hi all, I play in a band and we have a gig for the next few weeks in a
200-300 person room. The room floor is wood and the seeling is low so
there is alot of echo when we play. Do you have any tips on how to
setup our sound so that we have less echo.

thanks,
JD

[Scott Dorsey]

Jean-Daniel Gamache > wrote:
>Hi all, I play in a band and we have a gig for the next few weeks in a
>200-300 person room. The room floor is wood and the seeling is low so
>there is alot of echo when we play. Do you have any tips on how to
>setup our sound so that we have less echo.

Get some cheap carpet remnants. Put one on the floor, put one on the
stage, hang one behind you. It won't fix anything below 1 KHz or so,
but it will deal with the high frequency problems.

Also, get more people into the room. The more people in the room, the
more high frequencies will get absorbed.

Use speakers with narrow dispersion and point them at the audience and
not at the walls. Try to keep stage levels down as much as possible so
you can turn the monitor levels down.
--scott
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[anthony.gosnell]

"Jean-Daniel Gamache" > wrote
> Hi all, I play in a band and we have a gig for the next few weeks in a
> 200-300 person room. The room floor is wood and the seeling is low so
> there is alot of echo when we play. Do you have any tips on how to
> setup our sound so that we have less echo.

I have heard that helium balloons are very effective at absorbing sound.

--
Anthony Gosnell

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[Mike Rivers]

In article > writes:

> Hi all, I play in a band and we have a gig for the next few weeks in a
> 200-300 person room. The room floor is wood and the seeling is low so
> there is alot of echo when we play. Do you have any tips on how to
> setup our sound so that we have less echo.

First, turn down the volume. Then adjust the height and angle of your
speakers for the best compromise between echo back to the stage and
coverage for the audience.

What you really need are speakers with a highly controlled radiation
pattern so you can squirt sound to where there are people and not
where there are reflective walls, but this is expensive and requires a
fair amount of skill and experience to set up.



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[S O'Neill]

Mike Rivers wrote:

> In article > writes:
>
>
>>Hi all, I play in a band and we have a gig for the next few weeks in a
>>200-300 person room. The room floor is wood and the seeling is low so
>>there is alot of echo when we play. Do you have any tips on how to
>>setup our sound so that we have less echo.
>
>
> First, turn down the volume. Then adjust the height and angle of your
> speakers for the best compromise between echo back to the stage and
> coverage for the audience.

And tell the bass player to turn down his/her volume and lo eq.

[ryanm]

"Jean-Daniel Gamache" > wrote in message
om...
> Hi all, I play in a band and we have a gig for the next few weeks in a
> 200-300 person room. The room floor is wood and the seeling is low so
> there is alot of echo when we play. Do you have any tips on how to
> setup our sound so that we have less echo.
>
Two people have already posted the most important thing, and that is to
keep your stage volume as low as possible. The louder it is, the worse the
reflections will be. If you're quiet on stage, then you can use the PA to
direct the sound where you want it (at the bodies/people in the room, which
will absorb some of the sound) rather than just blasting the whole room.

ryanm