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The band I play with has just acquired a new practice space, and we're excited to have a central hub for all our gear and practice time. It sure gets tiresome having to 'clean up' after each meet so normal living can go on around our gear. Speak of the devil, our gear isn't so hot. I guess I'm the designated organizer for the sound, and most of the gear I have was either free, very used, or bought new when I was 15, the golden days when I would drool over Musician's Friend catalogs for hours and read every word.
On to the issue at hand: since I can easily run our practice mix through this junior recording computer, is there such a thing as a feedback suppressing program or plugin that I could use to keep things under control in our small practice room? I've already been moving the microphones as far away as possible from the speakers, and aiming them away too, but the room is not big enough. Would hanging old quilts and blankets on the walls reduce feedback at all?
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Feedback killers damage your tone, kill your system headroom and are a waste of money. If you know how to place your speakers with the mic you have, and set up proper gain struvture, they are not needed. You do however need some EQ I suspect.
In terms of this equipment, there isn't any tone to kill. I have two cabs with 15" woofers and horns, and they were only $120 each. And I've learned since I bought them that you get what you pay for. :-D
I've got a cheap 31-band graphic EQ, but 31 seems like too much. I never know what to do with them all. If I have 6-8, I'm in heaven, but not 31. But if I'm running everything through the computer anyway, I can probably do what I need to digitally. It looks like my E-MU 0404 sound card has parametric EQ's built in. Should I try to manually do what a feedback suppressor does?
A 31 band gives you more options (frequencies). It may be too much. That is good if it is. You should never want to have to boost or cut many bands. Less is better ideally.
A parametric EQ in a soundcard may be ok. It may not. It could be more precise, meaning you can dial in a specific frequency and then narrow the bell to notch out feedback. If your computer has a spectrum analysis plug-in, then you might look at that, and then dial it out with the parametric. Parametrics can get people into trouble.
What a feedback eliminator does is look for peaks. You set your mixer up with unity gain. You then push your master fader up until things start to ring. Then the processors will start to knock those f's out. Some of them will have parameters allowing you to set the width of the notch. Eventually everything can ring. So you have to know when to stop. Most units rotate filters. So you can run out. You never should to begin with. But, unless you are using these is a commercial install with no technical support, these are a very big waste of money. That said. The Feedback Ferret by Peavey is probably one of the best bangs for the buck.
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