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JaspTech Audio
Добавлен 19 фев 2024
Hi, thank you for checking out my channel. My name is Craig Jasper and I'm a sound engineer as well as a gigging guitarist. I'm also a music teacher and the head of music at a secondary school in the UK.
This channel is aimed at gigging musicians to help them with their PA and Live Sound issues. I know there are LOTS of very talented musicians and performers who, despite their musical talent, struggle to get a good sound from their PA equipment and struggle with issues such as feedback etc. This channel aims to teach people how to deal with and eliminate these issues in an easy to understand way.
I have a lot of experience performing in live bands and working with live sound. I've played in bands for all of my adult life. I was also the in house sound engineer at music venue for 10 years before starting a teaching career. I have a first class honours degree in Music and Music Technology and I've taught both Music and Music Technology at GCSE and A Level.
This channel is aimed at gigging musicians to help them with their PA and Live Sound issues. I know there are LOTS of very talented musicians and performers who, despite their musical talent, struggle to get a good sound from their PA equipment and struggle with issues such as feedback etc. This channel aims to teach people how to deal with and eliminate these issues in an easy to understand way.
I have a lot of experience performing in live bands and working with live sound. I've played in bands for all of my adult life. I was also the in house sound engineer at music venue for 10 years before starting a teaching career. I have a first class honours degree in Music and Music Technology and I've taught both Music and Music Technology at GCSE and A Level.
How To Eliminate Microphone Feedback - For Gigging Musicians.
Feedback is an issue every gigging musician will face, especially if we are taking our own PA system to our gigs and setting up in small confined spaces within the venues we perform at.
This video will look at how we can avoid microphone feedback and ways of eliminating it should it still occur.
If you find this video helpful, please let me know in the comments, press like on the video and please subscribe to the channel.
#livemusic #livesoundengineer #livesound
This video will look at how we can avoid microphone feedback and ways of eliminating it should it still occur.
If you find this video helpful, please let me know in the comments, press like on the video and please subscribe to the channel.
#livemusic #livesoundengineer #livesound
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How To Setup A PA System - A Step By Step Guide For Performers
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In this video we look at how to setup a basic PA system for a live gig. In the video we look at speaker positioning, how to connect a mixing desk to the speakers and how to get signal from a microphone plugged into a mixing desk. This video looks at how to connect a powered mixer to passive speakers and how to connect a passive mixer to powered speakers. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel...
These video is very nice i love very much ❤ . These video also helps for the Biguners, its very clearly explained. Thank you so much sir , can u upload more videos related to sound 😊
Sounded like a good idea then after 2 videos …… nothing ! Shame
Sorry - more videos will happen. Just been very busy with other things
great info
Great video, Brother! Very nice presentation.
excellent.
thank you 4 the infos
Good video, loving the transitions ❤
Very good. Thanks 🙂
Just found this video accidentally…this is very useful video..and so i hit the botton subscribed..
Excellent, just excellent. Thank you!
Yes yes sir
Nice
Great video brother
Is your intro on Spotify? its fire just busted out a little boogie
Waiting for further videos ❤
New video on the way soon.
I stumbled upon your video and this was absolutely great information. I subscribed halfway through once I realized how great you were and providing information. Thank you so much!
Thank you for subscribing. I’m glad you found the video useful.
thanks for all the great info.
No problem at all, I hope it was helpful.
Just amazing ! Thanks lot !
No worries. I hope you found the video useful.
I was watching because in my last gig, I had someone speaking and I couldnt get my volume high enough without feed back. In watching this video, I think my lows were too mixer highs, mids and especially the lows will too high. I will try it out at my next gig. Also with people speaking, it is hard to get them to talk into the microphone properly causing me to turn up the gain and volume. I'm using a dynamic microphone (Shure SM58), would a different microphone be better in a live event?
Have you had chance to have a play at another gig yet? When it comes to people just speaking into a microphone it can sometimes be difficult to get the volume needed, especially if the person speaking isn’t talking directly into the microphone. I had this at DJ gig a few weeks ago where somebody used my radio mic to give a speech. They held the mic really low and didn’t speak directly into it. Thankfully though, where they were stood was behind my speakers. I also cut the lows and low mids, which cleaned up the sound and helped prevent feedback. Like I say in my intro I’m a music teacher and I often setup a microphone for the head teacher to use when stood at a lectern. For this I do use a condenser microphone rather than a dynamic microphone. A condenser microphone (which needs phantom power) is designed to pickup sound from further away, but the downside to that is they can then also pickup reflected sound and signals coming from the PA speakers more easily, so you may need to do more work on the graphic EQ. I hope some of that helps.
This is exactly what i struggle with everyday! Please do more videos on this.
This is a good instructional video, easy to understand, but that background music is so distracting, you dont need it, this is not MTV, please re-upload this video minus the background music. Thank you. i'm a subscriber.
Thank you. Yeh I made a bit of an error with the background music and didn’t notice until after uploading. I thought it was a lot quieter when editing but think the video/file compression altered things a little when rending the exported file. RUclips doesn’t let you replace videos, only delete them which means losing everything associated with the video. Lesson learnt for future videos though.
@@JaspTechAudiodo you have an email where i can send some questions to? Thanks
Hi. Yes no problem. It’s JaspTech.audio@gmail.com
I think people have different preferences… The background music actually didn’t bother me at all… 😂
This was a Gold Mine Of information for a lot of Musicians learning to mix live sound, Great video bro. 🔥🔥🔥 PS: Just make sure to drop the background music when doing those sound checks.👊
Thank you. Yeh I made a bit of an error with the background music and didn’t notice until after uploading. I thought it was a lot quieter when editing but think the video/file compression altered things a little when rending the exported file. Lesson learnt for future videos.
this was great , thank u so much really helped. Can u do a vid for Dis and setting our levels
No worries, glad you found the video useful and good to hear it’s helped. Can you be more specific about what you need some advice with?
@@JaspTechAudio like what levels should everything be at , I.e from the controller, mixer, and speakers
Goldmine of must-have live sound info. So many musicians don't understand these concepts. Subbed.
Thank you. Hopefully people will these videos useful and help them out at gigs.
Thanks for this, i really dont think you need the background music at all in my opinion, or have it really really low in general. Its useful content and I found it distracting. Keep it up thankyou!
Thank you. Noted for next time. To be fair, I’ve learnt something doing this video. The music was really low during editing, but it looks like Final Cut has done something whilst exporting the video. It’s either applied some automatic volume changes or the file compression has done something during the export. There are parts of the video where the music gets louder when my talking gets quieter (like when I pull the mic away from my mouth) and other parts when the music pretty much cuts out, like when the mic is feedback during the graphic EQ section. This is something I automated or programmed and only noticed it after I’d uploaded the video. Glad you found the video useful though.
Great video but lose the background music. When you were doing the microphone test at around 5.40 it wasnt helping.
Thank you. Yeh I almost dropped the background music for that bit. Noted for next time. Cheers.
Very helpful. Thank you.
No problem at all, good to hear the video can help somebody. Please subscribe if you haven’t already - I’d really appreciate it.
Great video, please post more about this topic
Thank you. I’m working on another video as we speak. The next video will look at ways to avoid and eliminate feedback.
I watched your video just now after having mic volume trouble at my gig last night. After watching your video, i discovered that the PAD button on my mic channel had inadvrtently been pressed, im assuming when i was packing it to take to the gig. The PAD button isnt the easiest to see and i didnt realise that this is its function. So that explained why i had to turn my mic volume on the mixer ridiculously high to get a decent level of sound! Got my mixer out after watching your video and spotted it immediately! Problem solved thanks to your video! Have subscribed and looking forward to more tips. Many thanks.
Brilliant! Glad I could help. I’m working on the second video at the moment which looks at how to deal with and eliminate feedback. Hoping to get it out in the next few days.
@JaspTechAudio look forward to it. I just changed from a Shure sm58 to a Sennheiser E945 mic. Being a super cardioid means it picks up less surrounding noise and I've not experienced any feedback since, so I'm really pleased with it.
Nice 👍
Thanks, nicely explained and in line with the way i set up. Just need to get the rest of the band on board to understand gain ! I have subscribed and look forward to further videos.
Thank you. Working on the second video at the moment. Hoping to get it out at some point over the weekend.
Sorry but have to criticise you set up process. Setting up your system and having already set your amplifiers whether in your mixing desk, stand alone, or contained within the speaker cab itself to 0db (unity) before having established all of your input and output levels on your mixing desk is just asking for trouble (usually the loud screaming trouble from your speakers that makes you want to drink bleach). Unless you really know the venue (especially if it's a small venue) Turn your amps right down (whether in your mixer, stand alone, or in speaker). Set each and all of your input channel gains (with EQ flat) and then and only then, using one on stage microphone. Bring your main outputs up to unity (hopefully no sound from your PA, good thing, if you've got noise then bad thing) Bring microphone (slowly....) up to unity. Then! assuming you have no squeaky squeally sounds, gently increase the gain of your amplifier(s) until you start to hear the microphone "feedback". IMPORTANT! The feedback frequency may not necessarily be a high pitch/note, it may well be a low end rumble/boom. What you will hear is if you hold the amplifier gain steady that the feedback tone will start to increase in level. When this occurs pull the microphone down fully. All things being equal your feedback will disappear. You now have a good idea of at what point your system goes into feedback. If your PA is going into feedback before you've made any real change to the input gain of your amps then you're using way to big amps/speakers for the gig. Conversely if you're running your amps flat out and still not pushing the system into feedback you may well struggle during the gig itself. However the important factor is knowing where and when your system starts to feed back. From that point you can start using techniques such as Speaker placement, Changing Mic types, System and Input channel EQ as an aid to help you get a few more db in level out of your system. IMPORTANT POINT Every venue has a point at which you can make a microphone on stage feedback. If it's an arena sized venue you'll need a lot of amps and speakers but there will be a point you can make the mic feed back. If it's a pub sized gig then that feedback point is going to take a much lower number of speaker power to achieve and regardless of how much you spend on the quality of kit at your disposal, You will hit Feedback it's about how you avoid getting there too soon, but get there you will
I’m sorry but I respectfully disagree. At no point did I say to set everything to unity. I said to set power amplifier to unity and that I mix with my master volume set to unity. I then adjust channel volume accordingly to suit the mix. I do understand your point of view, but every venue I have have worked in and every engineer I have ever worked with does this the same way. The power amps are always set to unity, the mixing desk then determines the volume of each input using the channel faders. And it isn’t always practical to use amplifier volumes to determine your maximum volume before feedback. For instance, when I play a gig with our band and PA system we use multiple powered cabs. So I would be walking all over the stage adjusting individual amplifier volumes finding the point of feedback. The venue I work in regularly, the power amplifiers are in a room next to the stage, nowhere near the FOH position. The same result can be achieved with the amplifiers set to unity and using the mixing desk to find the point of feedback. Both ways will achieve the same result. Thanks for your input though.
Nice clearly presented information, look forward to seeing further content on more advanced themes. 👍
Thank you. I’m hoping to record the next video either this weekend or the following weekend. It will look at how to deal with microphone feedback at gigs.
Nice one, I think a lot of people don't know how to properly ring out their PA to the room and limit their potential for better sound.
Agreed. And I see people making simple mistakes that won’t help with feedback problems before we even get onto graphic EQ’s and ringing out etc. The video will go through a few steps and mistakes to avoid then look at using a graphic EQ on both digital and analogue desks.
Most valuable part of this based on what I've observed out int he wild is - "don't use guitar cable from powered PA to speakers" . Nice video; I look forward to the next ones
Thank you. Glad you liked it. I’ve seen A LOT of people over the years using regular Jack to Jack cables instead of speaker cables! The next video will look at how to deal with feedback at a gig.
Brilliant video! This is just the guide I’ve been looking for - simple, clearly explained and very useful!! Thank you ☺️
Thank you, I’m glad you’ve found it useful. This is the first video I’ve made for this channel. More will be uploaded soon 👍