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Digitech JamMan Stereo Looper… Alesis 520 Monitors…
I’ve got it temporarily wired in through my mixer and also MXL 990/991 microphones and the Digitech RP355.
Having a few issues with mic volume/feedback…maybe mic too close to monitors?? Volume on mixer channel too high??? Volume on JamMan too high??? Not sure, but don’t care for the sudden howl that’s kind of bassy if I begun to turn the volume up to make the microphones louder. Not wanting to overdrive anything.
Any suggestions from the pro’s? There’s volume on the channels, preamp volume for each microphone, volume of the control room output, volume of the main output volume output on the JamMan, and of course monitors volume.
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@luch_handt wrote:
Digitech JamMan Stereo Looper… Alesis 520 Monitors…
I’ve got it temporarily wired in through my mixer and also MXL 990/991 microphones and the Digitech RP355.
Having a few issues with mic volume/feedback…maybe mic too close to monitors?? Volume on mixer channel too high??? Volume on JamMan too high??? Not sure, but don’t care for the sudden howl that’s kind of bassy if I begun to turn the volume up to make the microphones louder. Not wanting to overdrive anything.
Any suggestions from the pro’s? There’s volume on the channels, preamp volume for each microphone, volume of the control room output, volume of the main output volume output on the JamMan, and of course monitors volume.
Hey Terry
Have fun with that pedal. Look up Phil Keaggy on YT and watch his use of the Jammann. He will lay down full rhythm track and harmony vocals with it.
As far as your feedback, it does make one jump a bit. I dealt with it when I owned fully hollow guitars.
My uneducated guess on this, feedback is nothing but an amplifier running wild with a note looping back into your guitar. To me, it would seem reasonable that if you have a pedal like the looper it would intensify any note that is lingering and begin the loop that causes the feedback. With a hollow guitar, if you barely hit a bass string, it can cause feedback to start. You may have hit a note on your guitar, even though its not a hollow body, w/o realizing it
So, I would start with the volume of the monitors first and then try the Jammann volume. It would seem that the output of the monitors would be most likely to affect the mics. It might help to move the physical location of the mics in relation to the monitors
Like I said, an uneducated guess.
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@Bluezhawk wrote:
@luch_handt wrote:
Digitech JamMan Stereo Looper… Alesis 520 Monitors…
I’ve got it temporarily wired in through my mixer and also MXL 990/991 microphones and the Digitech RP355.
Having a few issues with mic volume/feedback…maybe mic too close to monitors?? Volume on mixer channel too high??? Volume on JamMan too high??? Not sure, but don’t care for the sudden howl that’s kind of bassy if I begun to turn the volume up to make the microphones louder. Not wanting to overdrive anything.
Any suggestions from the pro’s? There’s volume on the channels, preamp volume for each microphone, volume of the control room output, volume of the main output volume output on the JamMan, and of course monitors volume.
Hey Terry
Have fun with that pedal. Look up Phil Keaggy on YT and watch his use of the Jammann. He will lay down full rhythm track and harmony vocals with it.
As far as your feedback, it does make one jump a bit. I dealt with it when I owned fully hollow guitars.
My uneducated guess on this, feedback is nothing but an amplifier running wild with a note looping back into your guitar. To me, it would seem reasonable that if you have a pedal like the looper it would intensify any note that is lingering and begin the loop that causes the feedback. With a hollow guitar, if you barely hit a bass string, it can cause feedback to start. You may have hit a note on your guitar, even though its not a hollow body, w/o realizing it
So, I would start with the volume of the monitors first and then try the Jammann volume. It would seem that the output of the monitors would be most likely to affect the mics. It might help to move the physical location of the mics in relation to the monitors
Like I said, an uneducated guess.
Pretty much like a acoustic with a pickup. Apparently the JamMan continues that loop making it dreadful. What I’ve read for the Mike is to have it facing exactly the opposite direction from the monitors which may help. Heck I’ve only had this stuff a couple days, still have time to figure it out and work it out. But, just like I read online, the JamMan’s manual isn’t much help. I listened to some of Phil Keagy on YT, thanks for that. Also there’s some other cool ones up. And KT Tungsal has a tutorial for doing her Black Horse And Cherry Tree, which she uses JamMan to sound as if it’s a band.
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*** Earlier, you said: What I’ve read for the mic is to have it facing exactly the opposite direction from the monitors which may help.
That suggestion doesn’t surprise me
One common trick with hollow body guitars was to turn the amp 90 degrees from the guitar so that the sound waves wouldn’t be hitting the guitar directly. Many hollow bodies have arched backs as well as tops and sound vibrating the back will set off feedback. Turn the amp and let the sound hit an opposite wall
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