( live sound ) do feedback destroyers really work ?

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alecmcmahon

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im hearing alot of mixed feelings about feeback destroyers...


i bassicly have a crappy ghetto rigged PA system.. made up of a SAE 2500 home thearter power amp , a tascam 4 track cassete recorder , and some old yahamma wedge monitors and 15" monitors. i get sound, pretty loud... but they is ussally tons of feedback...

so i was thinkking of adding one of those cheap behringer feedback destoryers to my chain for like a 100 bucks... what do you guys think ? do they actually work ?
 
The ones we have at Church are Sabine, and not inexpensive, and thus far mostly ineffective.

Getting them setup seems to be the key. The other standard EQ units we have, where feedback shows as a red light over a band in the 31 band EQ has proven to be more useable for tweaking the sound for feedback.

Ed
 
Ed Dixon said:
The other standard EQ units we have, where feedback shows as a red light over a band in the 31 band EQ has proven to be more useable for tweaking the sound for feedback.

Ed
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I have just changed to this type for my stage monitors and was suprised how easy it was to set up and also how effective it was. I usually gain about 5-6db in level before the feedback sets in again.

Tony
 
A 31-band eq and good ears or a rta to do circles around a feedback destroyer.
 
I got the ULTRA-CURVE PRO DSP8024. It works very well. First thing we do with it is pink/rta a new room and save the eq setting. Then let the feedback destroyer catch any stray problems. It's all pretty much automatic and very easy to use. There has been absolutely no feedback since we started using it.
 
I don't know which unit our band had a while back but it could notch out up to ten frequencies causing feedback. After a while it would release one of the notched out frequencies in favor of some other frequency and we'd have terrible feedback. We had more feedback problems with the feedback eliminator than without it. We got rid of it and haven't had any problem that couldn't be solved by turning a knob or moving a mic or speaker.
 
awsome, thanks guys for all your replys, i learned alot..



but after alot of thinking and going over the budget im just gonna start saving up for a real PA system.... like one of the 1,000 dollar yahamma packs.... ( but used )....

thanks again guys.
 
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