How to Fix Microphone Feedback

Microphone feedback is that dreadful howl or squeal you sometimes experience eminating from loudspeakers during a live performance, speech or presentation. The HowToAV team looks at techniques and technologies to avoid feedback and ensure an interference-free performance. Microphone feedback - also sometimes referred to as the 'Larson effect' can be both annoying to the audience and performer, as well as damaging to a sound system and your ears! The effect occurs when sound from loudspeakers is picked up by the microphone, re-amplified and then picked-up again from the speakers. This continuous loop results in the howl or rumble of the feedback effect. A number of options should be considered to eliminate feedback including: - Avoid placing microphones near to the loudspeakers - Place microphone as close to the sound source as possible, rather than increasing the volume of the microphone - Use directional microphones, such as cardioid or supercardioid - Reduce the number of open microphones on a speech system - Use graphic equalisers or parametric equalisers to ring out the frequencies where feedback occurs - Add a feedback eliminating device to your audio system to cut the exact frequency causing the feedback - Avoid hard / reflective surfaces in the environment - Advise the presenter or performer where to stand (and where not to stand) on stage or in the room to avoid proximity to loudspeakers #howtoav If you have a question for the HowToAV team, send us a tweet at https://twitter.com/HowToAV or leave us a message in the Comments section below... Where to Buy: http://www.cie-group.com/