How to Set Up PA Systems : Dynamic Range for PA System Setup

[lanswipe]

Short faders, lol

[frost0813]

My experience has been that the poinbt at which something is no longer comfortable to listen to anymore, is distortion.

[TheKilo305]

I should expect a berkeley education wouldnt cost much. There isnt anything special about any school in california...by design it's the land of degenerate morons. Yep.

[drummersoundguy]

@jmvmain Mackie? Highest quality? Right....

[Alchohollica]

Thanks for these video's, im studying sound production & engineering and these video's are good revision. If people really want to learn to be a sound engineer then go out and do it, don't sit about expecting to get a degree on youtube.

[noeldador]

yamaha mixer? use ashley or rane..

[jmvmain]

@noeldador why? Yamaha has some of the top rated board out of all of them. In fact Yamaha and Mackie are the highest quality with boards. This is just a smaller board. You obviously haven't seen a real board like the Yamaha M7CL

[adamacin34]

@jmvmain HA. Try looking at Digidesign, MIDAS, or Digico. Yamaha is all right. Certainly the standard, but not the best rated. Yamaha doesn't have nearly the sonic resolution of any of those brands.

[noeldador]

yamaha mixer

[abcop00]

People eat candy in church? LOLWUT.

[reditreefrogs]

Unity gain setting is the same as the flat spot on a channel...middle gain no effect...

[basketcase219]

im just getting in to live shows and i was wondering if u could hook amps into pa speakers can anyone answer that

[Bansheekilr]

if you're referring to guitar or bass amps, you simply just have to mic ur amp and send that signal to the mixer.

[JeffProductions]

NOOBS!!! thais is a Yamaha not a Mackie!!!!

[JeffProductions]

thais=that's

[megachin]

exelent mixer

[megachin]

ing. by sound

[Steve128967]

Expert: Kip Bradford

Bio: Kip Bradford head baker for a popular chain of restaurants in Southern California for more then a decade.

Filmmaker: Kip Bradford

A baker covering PA systems? Lol

[americaneagle791]

Thats a huge fucking mixer.

[junkai21]

Legendary Mackie ! I have one too . 24 . 8

[outpulse92]

@junkai21

äääm, Yamaha...

NOT Mackie !!!

noob -.-

[xtebanxteban]

what feedback has to do with dynamic range??

[pitudo69]

if you keep your feedback in check, you can max your dynamic range (headroom). If you have a nasty feedback you will have to keep your volume low to prevent FB to trigger, get it?

[xtebanxteban]

even if you lower your volumen (db's) you still have Feedback....... but honestly I forgot why I put that coment anyway..lol

[pitudo69]

yep if you still have FB @ low volumes means one or some eq bands are the culprit, or your mics gain are set to high, or the FOH speakers are to close, monitors to loud, so many variants! Regards.

[goobs52]

omfg. if you have managed to get time to ring out the room before the show. most if not all standing frequencies in the room should be under control...

The only feedback that will be introduced into the FOH ( Front of House ) system will most likely be from the onstage mix (fold back / stage monitors). eliminating these frequencies via monitor graphic EQ can be tricky with hard reflective surfaces on stage. ie Wooden floor boards, plaster or wooden roof, hard walls. but completely possible.

[pitudo69]

I completely disagree with you on this, there are a lot of venues made only of concrete blocks those are fun to eq even w/o monitor running; most of the time some LF's and MF's need to be cut and then set the needed highs, if the situation you imply was true we would not need eq but a treble and bass control, what I do is eq FOH, mix band FOH, then eq mons, mix mons individual band ch. and last turn up mons main volume enough to even out with FOH trust me, will sound terrific, no FB at all baby!

[goobs52]

i have had feed back via accoustic guitar, on stage, which turned out to be the artist playing the guitar wanting more treble, and accidently increased the mids on his pickup/preamp eq, 400hz and 670hz were killers. :P

the way i Ringing out a room effectively eliminates FOH feedback. and if you manage to get this part of the tuning down with an empty room, even more so effective. because one the room fills, the more bodies in the venue = more absorption. although sometimes marginal...

[goobs52]

For Example....if you have vocals compressed to a point were there is no dynamic range left, there is a higher likelyhood of feed back either on stage or through FOH due to the higher overall level required after "flattening" the peaks and troughs from the said vocals.

[pitudo69]

see again missleading people, You should to say: You DON'T overcompress the vocals, never! unless it is intended to sound unnatural, Set the comp threshold just to get the peaks, set ratio 1:1 or 2:1, soft knee and no more! and again feedback is due to bad EQing.

[aarfeld]

Well, there's the theory--now, how do you set the damn thing out here in the real world?

[pitudo69]

good eq, that's the whole point!

[nathanfornash]

Funny that an "expert" system designer forgot to turn off the camera microphone when feeding the headworn mic in...check out the comb filtering, yea baby!

[sonidomadrid]

I PRAISE¡

[MTXSHO9732vV8SHO]

Damn... Do some of you people actually expect a "Berklee Education" in 3 minutes? Grow up, get some real life advice. IF you already know all this (goodie goodie for you) move on capturing live sound on home studio recording environments. ALL this information 'works' whether your talking about a 4 channel mixer or a 32 track board. Maybe, you should try actually learning to use what you have before complaining about the FREE help on youtube. Sounds like typical, American bitching to me.

[MightySaturn5]

yeah MTX...I agree, most people cannot appreciate what they have and end up bitching.

[ladjkaoz]

@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO well said lol..

[AngelOfSin666]

sound engineering is for some. and not for others. its all to do with your knowledge of music and how things should sound if they sound good... and the word "good" is too variable... there for, if it sounds accurate... same again what is accurate to one person.... each to their own i say...

[peterm3964]

I have yet to see ONE expert from EXPERT villiage > ~!!!!!

[retodd4259]

yeah i cant afford a 31 channel mixer or a 32 band eq either...

[posthastey]

That was eerie! At 0:53 he sprouted the horns of Beelzebub.

[UserIsBoth]

the equipment is too advance.

[voodoospunky]

You are a retard. Its only a 32 ch board and a cheap one at that. Oh what scared you, was it the 31 band EQ? You shouldn't be messing with sound if you think that equipment is too advacnced.

[94XJ]

C'mon man...not everyone is used to running good boards. Some people are stuck with Behringer boards. XD

[tallandhandsome29]

"Shouldn't be messing with sound"? Pretentious twat.

[kylekam14]

thats what i was thinking i cannot afford anywhere near a 31 channel board, i only have a 4 channel board thats what i can afford, so.