my husband bought a kareoke machine and when he sings the sound is too screechy do you have to be a certain lenghth away from the machine with the microphone???
2007-02-22 02:23:37 · 4 answers · asked by tristy 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
your mic is picking up other sounds, such creating feedback. Make sure your mic is pointing in a direction not directly in front of the mains or the monitor, otherwise you will get feedback. Try to have the mic at an angle in which no other sounds are directly pointing toward the mic, except for the vocal or that in which you want to be mic'd.
That, or maybe it's just not Shure.
2007-02-22 02:33:34 · answer #1 · answered by JasSays 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answers above correctly diagnose "feedback" - but what is feedback?
Feedback is sound entering the microphone, being amplified, played through a speaker, and some of that sound going back into the microphone again. Feedback is a resonating loop, where the same sound keeps getting fed-back into the microphone, and amplified through the speaker, only to enter the mic again, eventually going so fast that it sounds like a high-frequency squeal.
Jimi Hendrix made feedback famous by turning up his amplifiers as loud as they would go, and holding his guitar up to the speaker cabinet.
The pitch of feedback depends on the resonant frequency of the system. Speaker type, microphone (or guitar) type, distortion and volume of the signal. Some feedback is a low rumble, some is a sharp squeal, and it all depends on how far the sound has to travel and how the sound is modified (EQ) before it is fed-back into the system.
2007-02-22 06:08:34 · answer #2 · answered by Rick W 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like feedback. Stay away from the front of the speaker. You should always be behind it.
2007-02-22 02:29:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends..
2016-08-23 18:56:12 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋