Mic help, please.

[paisteguy]

Arrrrrgh. So frustrating....

I'm using ATM35 clip on mics on my toms (ATM35) and an AE2500 on the kick (AE2500). I'm running them thru a Behringer mixer (Mixer). **Regardless of your personal opinion of the equipment, this is what I have to work with.**

All four of the ATM35s and the AE2500 are giving off this peculiar feedback. After the drum is struck, there is a lingering electronic "roar / rumble". Sounds kind of like rolling thunder, if that makes any sense. The roar will linger for almost 10 seconds or so unless I kill off the channel fader.

The individual channel faders are between 50-75% when this is happening.

What is further aggrivating me is that I can't bring the main mix fader more than an eyelash from the off position before the feedback roar goes bonkers.

I've tried the roll-offs on the mics and the "low-cut" button on the mixer to try to kill some of this and I've had no luck.

Since it's all the mics are doing this, I figure it must be me. Can anyone offer some advice?

 

[noisedude]

'Feedback', in the sense it's usually used, happens when a sound gets back into a mic for a second time from whatever source the mic is being played back through. So my question is - what are you monitoring with? If it's really loud phones or some kind of speaker then there's a chance it's looping because of that when you raise the mic gain to a certain point.

Nothing else springs to mind apart from that.

 

[Big Kenny]

also, make sure you have no effects running through. sometimes a delay or high doses of reverb will cause the "thunder "