"Ron Capik" wrote in message
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Mike Rivers wrote:
What I hate is when the singer/guitarist decides to play an
instrumental and puts the vocal mic down on his guitar because he
thinks that having two mics on it will make it louder. Then when he
finishes playing the tune, he starts talking into no microphone.


Holy ****, it's not just me! :-}

As we used to say at Channel Nine, "This is why they call them 'talent'." To
the original poster: I second Scott's suggestion of an Electro-Voice RE-16
as being remarkably feedback-proof. I used to work with a contra-dance
caller who liked to stand about 5' in front of the speakers. The mike was an
RE-16, and the speaker was an E-V Sentry IV, and it didn't feed back. When
there was a problem in one of the sets, he would sometimes lay the
microphone down on the speaker's bass cabinet, in front of the midrange
horn. It didn't feed back there either.

Also, you probably should take the compressor out of the chain completely.
Not only is it a really, really bad compressor, but it's probably adding to
your feedback woes. In a situation like this, you're better off without it.

Peace,
Paul