"Carlos Alden" wrote in message
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in article , JS at
wrote on 5/10/04 3:31 PM:


I know I know bad question!!! But I try to turn down my low end and
that helps a bit. The speakers have a volume knob that I crank. Low
talkers tend to get feedback on me and thought there was a magical eq
to work around these issues. So I guess I have been doing the right
thing.

I also can't comment much when I can't see the hall, but here's an idea
for
you. I've done sound (with Eons, no less, and a Mackie) for a lot of
contra
dances (acoustic fiddle music, lots of early American and irish, etc., and
a
caller for the dancers) and I've found that for the vocals it often helps
to
turn up the mids a bit for clarity. A lot of people who don't know about
sound issues think that turning up the treble will help the speaker sound
more intelligible, but it just yields more feedback, especially with an
inexperienced mic user. Oh God, they like to go out on the floor and wave
the thing around in front of the mains. Then, of course, everyone looks
at
ME as if I was personally generating the howls and squeals.

Turning down the low end does help, and try increasing the mids a little
bit. If you have a sweepable frequency mid control, try and find that
sweet
spot in the vocalist's voice that yields clarity.

usually around 1.6K but careful too much and it sounds like a McDs drive
thru
George


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