Feedback / Microphone: Difference between revisions
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=== My vocal microphone keeps encountering feedback. Is there anything I can do to stop it? === | === My vocal microphone keeps encountering feedback. Is there anything I can do to stop it? === | ||
From the Official Product Troubleshooting Page <ref>[http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEW_STATIC_PAGE_EVENT&url=/musicians/support/troubleshooting.jsp&ck=0#feedback Official Product Troubleshooting Pages]</ref>. | From the Official Product Troubleshooting Page <!-- TODO fix this link --><ref>[http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEW_STATIC_PAGE_EVENT&url=/musicians/support/troubleshooting.jsp&ck=0#feedback Official Product Troubleshooting Pages]</ref>. | ||
* Orient the microphone so that it is not pointing directly at your Cylindrical Radiator™ loudspeaker. It’s best when your system is not directly behind you- give greater than 5 feet distance between you and your system. | * Orient the microphone so that it is not pointing directly at your Cylindrical Radiator™ loudspeaker. It’s best when your system is not directly behind you- give greater than 5 feet distance between you and your system. | ||
* Try using a “close-miking” technique to increase the gain at the microphone and to reduce unwanted stage sound. | * Try using a “close-miking” technique to increase the gain at the microphone and to reduce unwanted stage sound. | ||
* Use the HIGH tone control knob for the microphone channel carefully. Feedback could occur when this is set too high. | * Use the HIGH tone control knob for the microphone channel carefully. Feedback could occur when this is set too high. | ||
* Upgrade your power stand to newer software that offer a high gain preset. see: Software Upgrading (This covers firmware update and Version 2.0 [[Presets]]) | * Upgrade your power stand to newer software that offer a high gain preset. see: Software Upgrading (This covers firmware update and Version 2.0 [[Presets/Model I and Classic|Presets]]) | ||
* If using a vocal effects processor, make sure that it is not contributing to the feedback problem. | * If using a vocal effects processor, make sure that it is not contributing to the feedback problem. | ||
* If stand -mounting a directional microphone, tilt the microphone up ten or twenty degrees off the horizon so that it is less sensitive to direct sound from the speakers. | * If stand -mounting a directional microphone, tilt the microphone up ten or twenty degrees off the horizon so that it is less sensitive to direct sound from the speakers. | ||