Monitor help
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Posted on Jul 30, 2009 04:07 pm
dlambe6
Member Since: May 04, 2009
Ok, here's the deal. We are just getting our act together to start making a little money to buy equipment. We originally planned to buy mains before monitors. We booked a fairly large gig recently and now are debating on getting better monitors or mains. We are currently borrowing mains from a friend so it's not an issue if we do not get the mains right away. We are using a small PA that I had from a while back as monitors. We are running from the board into a channel of the little Powered mixer and then running three small 10" speaker cabs as monitors. Here is my question. When we play at a local daiquiri shop, we play in an enclosed patio that is surrounded by glass. I can't get the monitors to stop feeding back. I even ran them through an EQ and I can notice a small difference but they will still feedback. I can't get them loud enough to hear over the music. Will it make a dramatic difference in them feeding back by not playing in the "glass box"??? Is the small space causing them to feedback so bad? Or, is it a fault in the monitor in which we would need to put off the mains and buy good monitors for our gig?
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Jul 30, 2009 04:32 pm It's a little of everything.
The glass is bouncing the signal into the mic's. Your artist have little room, so the monitor is directly below the mic. And your running around a 2 ohm load to your monitors. And the back of the FOH speakers are adding to the overall volume on stage.
All this spells disaster for high volume.
There are several things that will be needed for monitors in a room like this.
The simplest, and cheapest solution is to have everyone turn way WAY down on stage. Give the drummer brushes or something.
If that does not work. Then it gets ratter expensive.
Now your going to need a separate monitor mix for every person on stage. That means buying a new console that has proper AUX out for each mix. And a 31 band EQ for every single mix. Not to mention the amp channel for each mix, if your using passive monitors. If you go Bi amp, then your going to need an amp for each mix.
Bring a bat with you. Threaten to beat the holly hell out of them if they don't turn down. That might help.
