No Feedback, thank you very much
Okay, I’m not going to criticise people for not giving me much feedback on this site. Chances are if you’re actually reading it, you don’t have much knowledge of audio in the first place, so what would you comment about?
Besides, I’m talking about feedback in the audio sense; when what is playing out of your monitoring source, typically speakers, is reaching back to the microphone and is getting re-amplified. Then that process just continues to happen until you get that awesome ringing sound.
I bring this up because it’s a common issue with conference audio and can be helped substantially with a very simple solution; put the speakers IN FRONT of the microphone.
While early reflections (the first sound waves reflected off the walls) may arrive back at the mic position, in general moving the speakers in front of the microphone position (podium, panel table, etc.) will dramatically decrease the amount of sound coming back and if you’re using a cardiod microphone, you should reject most sound from behind the mic source.
Happy conferencing!
