UPDATE: Took these tips with me to a gig yesterday and my mics have never sounded better than yesterday. Had absolutely ZERO feedback and had get volume out of my mics. Thank you again so much Nick and thank you for explaining things out that are easy to understand

@NickSpinelli

3 жыл бұрын

Love this!!! Thanks bro!!

@landon8105

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickSpinelli No bro dont thank me. All thanks go to you for real. You've literally made me so confident with my new DJ business. If you see this I just have one question for you. I know you hate on skrims. What woukd be an alternative to skrims to help with cable management? I'm not at the point yet where I can go battery powered.

Nick, interesting video. One major flaw is your last bit about the right microphone. The SM58 having a cardoid pattern doesn't mean it picks up from all directions. It's actually the total opposite. It'll reject from the rear and pick up from directly the top. I have d&b audiotechnik subwoofers and those are cardoid pattern subs. There's two subs in one box, one facing forward and one facing to the rear. Why? So that the low energy behind the sub cancels out with the front. The result, no low energy going to the rear. The same concept applies to cardoid microphones. The beta58 is a super-cardoid microphone so the polar pattern is even more aggressive than the SM58. An omni-directional mic is really the mic to avoid so you don't get feedback. Your message is great, the facts are just jumbled up. Cardoid is not omnidirectional. Omnidirectional mics like the Shure SM63 are the type that pickup from all directions. The SM58 is just not as directional as the Beta58.

@GilliganRocks

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he kind of lost me there... if you don't understand how this works, I really have issues with anything else you might say you "know" about. :/

@therobbobchannel6561

2 жыл бұрын

Lol and when he showed a mic while talking about the "SM58" it was definitely NOT an sm58

@OfFormerFame

Жыл бұрын

I think he's trying to show the pattern if you're looking directly into the mic. In which case, his explanation about the difference between SM58 and Beta58A is sort of correct. The radius of the pickup pattern would be smaller on the Beta58A. But it discounts the roll-off difference to the sides, and completely ignores the rear of the mic. Either way, not a great explanation of the mic patterns and how they affect things.

@averysmith5246

Жыл бұрын

He was talking about looking at it from the top, in which case cardioid does pick up from all directions horizontally like his diagram showed. The only place cardioid rejects is from the handheld portion behind the diaphragm. And the pic he showed was an SM58 capsule on a wireless transmitter body.

@MrCalebgrayson

Жыл бұрын

@@therobbobchannel6561 that’s a wireless mic body with an SM58 capsule.

Beyond only DJs, this is an incredible guide for everyone working with a PA system. It lays crucial techniques out in a simple way. The world’s amplified sound would be far better if everyone watches this video.

I've just started watching your videos and I want to say that you have a great online personality for the topics.

Nice stuff man. Great tips and nice to see when the video AND audio are on point.

This has been the most helpful video for me concerning feed back ❗🔥

I love your videos, so helpful, thank you for making this!!

Hi Nick! We had a gig last night which required mic announcements by us and attendees to make speeches / toasts / prayers / announcements. We don’t usually book gigs with a lot of mic usage from people outside the DJ booth but a recent booking which was a fitness concert resulted in mic feedback . The person who booked us and performed decided to move our speakers during the show to face each other and the mic he was holding 🤦🏻‍♀️ There were other performers and I could not get to him fast enough. This time, we sat and watched your video and developed a plan on speaker placement and height and education for our mic users. We had one tiny second of feedback because the hostess turned and walked straight towards a speaker and pointed it up and at the speaker. When she came to the booth, I used your mirror analogy and I saw an instant lightbulb! I am a baby DJ, learning the craft and my partner has years of mostly backyard and bar experience. We enjoy your videos / content and have learned SO much. We just wanted you to know that we appreciate you, your knowledge, and your ability to give practical application in your “tutorials”. I do have a question for you regarding song requests but I’ll find that video and ask there to give a boost to another video and help that algorithm 😊

This is awesome, thank you! As a singer & DJ, feedback makes my skin crawl, I'm implementing this immediately!

Best videos !! A Dj of 20 yrs and I’m learning so much !!! Thank you ‘ nick S. !!!

Thanks Nick for a super-clear explanation of this phenomenon!

Thanks for this video. Very informative and helpful!

This is a great video Nick. Thank you sir.

Man this’s a great video. I’ve been fighting this for years. Thanks so much man!!!

Great information, Nick. I appreciate it

Wow this is a complete game changer, thank you!

Awesome, simple explanation and can do it immediately without adding any devices. Good job bro.

20 years doin this shit and im still learnin watching your videos. Thank you bro 🖖🖖

@NickSpinelli

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate you Shaka!!

Great information Nick!!

Great work!! I'm new but true to this game & you just helped out a lot!! I'm not too proud to admit that I've been sitting here for hours trying to figure this feedback thing out.

Thanks for your videos bro helps a lot!❤

Finally, someone made some sense of this issue. Thanks!

@NickSpinelli

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

I have found your video very helpful indeed and you are so entertaining. Fabulous!

Nick, thanks for that awesome tutorial! I'm a drummer in a band, and I recently became more involved with managing our overall sound. I'm a newbie when it comes to this, so I'm gathering up as much info as possible. Your explanations were the most clear and easy to follow. Your approach is awesome! I'm now a subscriber. Thanks!

You’re fantastic Nick! Love all of this and your humor of course is on point 😁😁

Fantastic video. Thank you.

Great Tips Bro. Keep them coming.

really good video bro!! thank you sir!!!

Thanks brother great information and really needed. Also thanks for explaining the difference on both shure mics!

Great video, super informative!

Thank you for making this video. It’s instructional, simplified and you are funny/entertaining ❤loved it

I find this very helpful. Thanks

this was very informative, thanks!

Awesome video Nick. I use shure/qlx but more so for the connection. Never knew about the patterns til this. Thanks!

Another great video brother 🙌💪🏼

Thank you ! ❤ it changed my my gig !

great info! tx man! i'll try this tips at my next gig. i salute you from Romania

Great video!!! Thank you

Sweet! Love this Video!

that was very helpful thank you

Great tips. Thanks

Thank you girl! 😊

An excellent, clear, description of feedback.👍👍👍😁

Well thought out and detailed video that even dummies can understand. you've helped me tons and taught me a thing or two!!

Great video! thanks

Thank you, I learned alot!!....

This really massive thank you bro

that made it so clear for me!

So inspiring thanks so much sir

Dude, thanks for explaining all this in such clear language...

Super helpful video Nick! I never understood what feedback was before, and you just made it so simple and clear! I have so far only had one feedback faux pa in one of my MCs, so now will back into it soon after the Christmas and New Year lull, and my calendar is starting to fill up, i'll know never to make the mistake of stepping into the dispersion patterns of the speakers. 👍🏼🎤

Thanks for the info 🤓

Keep entertaining us Nick! Your content is by far the best on KZread. "Unless you eat it!" LOL

@NickSpinelli

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate you!!! 🙏🏼🤣

Excellent love it

Really awesome video and way of expressing things with compact informations.

Thank you so much. I didn’t know anything about the cause of feedback.

so Helpful !

Awesome presentation Nick

Thanks mang!!!

You are a fabulous sound instructor bro; great just great!

EQ the feedback out, Ring your system out and pull out the prob freq.s and THATS how to not get feedback. you also gave good tips.

great vid thanks

Thanks . advice very useful.

Thanks man for the mic information! it will be useful for the wedding toast! :-)

I use a Sennheiser e935 wired mic and an Audio Technica System 10 wireless mic. Never had any problems with them. Also have a Shure SM-58 as a backup. This was a great video, always entertaining.

Your gain advice help me so much I am the sound tech at church and I have been fighting with feedback for over 10 years and now I know how to fix it I always look at gain as power or force and velocity at volume but now looking at as a door is way different

Solid tips NS !!

@NickSpinelli

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark!

i loved ur video! not only very informative and useful, youre also really funny xD

Great audio on your video! Surprised you didn't mention two of THE most important things to eliminate feedback. Distance of the microphone from the sound source and volume of the sound source. The louder a person's voice is and the closer it is to the microphone, the less gain you will need to achieve the same volume out of the speakers. Before I give anyone a microphone I look them in the eye and physically show them how close to put it to their mouth. I usually recommend what I call the 'thumb up" method. Grasp the microphone just below the windscreen, put your thumb up and place the tip of your thumb to the tip of your chin. The mic will stay an inch from your mouth and there won't be a Doppler effect if they start turning their head to look at people.

This was SUPER helpful! I'm just getting started and played my first show a couple days ago (I do live vocal looping & singing) and we had a crappy sound setup for my rig, and no engineer present to help fix things so I got MAD feedback during my set. Your explanation of GAIN vs VOLUME will stay with me forever -- I love the image of gain as a doorway! Thank you!

exactly the issue i was facing and it resolved. I was planning to do game streams with commentary. And this works perfect. Thanks for for your tips and guide. liked and subbed

the polar pattern of the 58 is cardioid, your diagram was omni, cardioid is more rejection from the handle area, and super cardioid is more rejection from the sides of the rear. i agree the supercardioid is a tighter polar pattern, its better to use when using 2 monitor blocks. for mono, cardioid is better for rejection

@RichardChappell1

4 ай бұрын

Except a supercardioid has a stronger pickup directly from the back than a Cardioid - so can be bad in front of monitors. Cardioid is much better for live sound, and a supercardioid is better for a studio or recording environment.

I totally agree with you about the SM58. I used one as a Dj and always held it on my chin but touching close to my mouth

Furthermore- the Beta version has a hotter output as well than the normal Shure 58. This means that you get, all around- a total better microphone. You get a more narrow pick up pattern (supercardiod) and more output from the microphone. On the 87A- you even get a more high frequency output which adds sizzle and sparkle on the vocals. So for the application of usage- I usually give my Beta 58 to males and Beta 87 to female vocalist to use.

this video made me subscribe to your channel nick , thanks alot

Good video and I'll be researching the Beta 58.

Thanks!

Thank you bro, you left me no choice but to subscribe!

Good one Nick.

That ain't 90 degrees Nick! 😂 😂 Your most helpful video yet in 2021! Thanks

@NickSpinelli

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!!

Awesome tips

Killer info, thanks for the heads up on hat mic head.

Thank you spinellio's

This video is helpful asf 😁

Sorry, the gain is not the “door” as the guy in this video states. If you run your gain very low, then make up for it in later gain stages you end up with more circuit noise, not some sort of elimination of sounds you may not want. Running low low gain levels and higher “volume” levels does not give you higher net volume levels at the speaker. What you get is a volume knob that is turned up further, which may look like it’s louder but not sound any louder!

@DanMcLeanJr

Жыл бұрын

Ya. The idea that the gain control somehow filters out sounds based on anything other than loudness is incorrect. There are protocols for setting the imbalance between the gain knob and the volume fader, but I am certain no one at RCF told him what he said in the video. It’s a shame that his friend at RCF has this video now attached to his name.

Thanks so much very clear explanation. Also explained how to use the Shure 58👏🏾

Thank you bro

Thank you.

Excellent video

Additional very helpful tricks I can add is to use an additional equipment feedback destroyer. It costs a little more though. A sound engineer showed me how to kill and completely eliminate feedback is to use a 32 channel graphic equalizer or higher, the sound engineer showed it using the mackie app in the ipad then there is one specific frequency that kicks the feedback, all he did was slide it all the way down, it did not alter the sound quality from the mic and speakers like you litterally hear the sound from the person being choked or kinda like pinching the persons nose, it worked like magic

Nick. Good job. You explained a couple things in a more logical way that I didn't get in similar vids.

Thanks man

Awesome job Nick per usual.. However when you get to someone like me that runs a Behringer X32 Rack mixer I have a few more bells and whistles that help as well such as a limiter, adjustable Low Cut Filter and DeEsser. Sure most djs won't use that stuff however I find if I set those just right and have my gain at -18 dB it's the best I can get without any feedback

Thanks for the amazing video!!! How do you place speakers behind you? I have a small rectangular room where speakers can only be hanging on walls either behind me or other walls. It is only for vocal speeches, no instruments involved.

3:48 lol great video and information, I learned something and was entertained.

This is such a helpful and easy to understand video. Thanks so much for this and all the rest of your content! You rock, Nick! 🤘🏼

Thank you

Hey man... I love your video and awesome explanations! One question. What would you recommend for a congregation type setting? In our Hall, we have like 15 ceiling mounted speakers. Most of the time, there's no issues, but for some members, when they comment, instant feedback. We have to lower the volume pretty much all the way down making it hard to even hear their comment. Something about their voice tone or frequency that causes feedback, I don't know. Most of the time, it happens with the soft-spoken members. Anyway, we're using a TOA 900 series amplifier for the volume control. We're using the Shure SM58 wireless mics with a Shure BLX4R receiver. What would you recommend we do to help avoid that feedback?

Me and my cousins do Metallica covers, this explains a lot. I'm pretty familiar with a lot of technical things. This one I never picked up on, but the way you explained it in such a simple manner made a lot of sense. Now I see where we made these mistakes. So simple. Learn something new everyday

Great info.. thank you but do you have one for line array tops?