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Vocal distortion question

  • 10-08-2010 05:40PM
    #1
    Live at Three
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 300 ✭✭


    Hi
    I am trying to recreate a vocal sound like that of the strokes. I am singing through a guitar pedal and the sound is great, the only problem is that I get crazy feedback when I turn it up at all. I am trying to distance the mike away from the PA and the PA speakers are not pointing to the mike. Any ideas how to avoid this? Will this get worse when I use stage monitors?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    MilanPan!c
    Site Banned Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭MilanPan!c


    Live at Three wrote: »
    Hi
    I am trying to recreate a vocal sound like that of the strokes. I am singing through a guitar pedal and the sound is great, the only problem is that I get crazy feedback when I turn it up at all. I am trying to distance the mike away from the PA and the PA speakers are not pointing to the mike. Any ideas how to avoid this? Will this get worse when I use stage monitors?
    Thanks

    I would get the soundguy to put the distortion through the PA, but not the monitors... Problem solved.


  • #3
    Live at Three
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 300 ✭✭Live at Three


    The PA is feeding into the mike and causing the the feedback though. I'm not using monitors yet.


  • #4
    MilanPan!c
    Site Banned Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭MilanPan!c


    Live at Three wrote: »
    The PA is feeding into the mike and causing the the feedback though. I'm not using monitors yet.

    Is the PA pointing toward the mics?

    Or away, like in a venue?


  • #5
    dav nagle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭dav nagle


    http://www.guitarpedalstore.com/guitar-effects-pedals.asp/pid_8374/productname_Behringer-Noise-Reducer-NR300


  • #6
    Live at Three
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 300 ✭✭Live at Three


    MilanPan!c wrote: »
    Is the PA pointing toward the mics?

    Or away, like in a venue?

    It's pointing away.

    The practice room is echoey though so there's no real way to keep the sound back from the mic. Will need to use a wedge onstage though, this might cause more problems unless I send a clean signal through that and try to put the distortion through the PA as mentioned above.


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  • #7
    studiorat
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    Sticking the mic through a pedal is going to be tricky. It increases the gain and therefore the sensitivity of the mic so you are going to get feedback at all but the very lowest settings. You'll possibly need to use two microphones one clean and one distorted.
    I believe The Strokes used a Peavy guitar amp for their vocal sound.


  • #8
    MilanPan!c
    Site Banned Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭MilanPan!c


    Live at Three wrote: »
    It's pointing away.

    The practice room is echoey though so there's no real way to keep the sound back from the mic. Will need to use a wedge onstage though, this might cause more problems unless I send a clean signal through that and try to put the distortion through the PA as mentioned above.

    yeah, the above advice about two mics isn't bad, for practice... then run it through the PA live... should be grand...


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