How to avoid feedback and other surprises when setting up PA systems.
This easy to read guide is aimed at small groups using PA systems for podium and stage microphone, like churches and self-help groups, and makes concepts clear.
Topics include how to avoid feedback by understanding what it is, with details and many illustrations covering speaker placement, microphones, mixing boards, and active and passive speakers.
Adapted from the DVD "PA Systems For Small Groups," the project to create the DVD, which became the book, was to help schools, churches and self-help groups who often have meetings in venues which require sound reinforcement.
The author traveled throughout North America recording special events, including state conventions, held by Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon groups.
He's a journalist who learned microphone use on radio, and while bringing some help to the conventions by providing his services free for over a decade, he realized how common feedback was, and saw too many times how easily it can ruin the entire event, if no-one knows how to stop it.
If this sounds like a book that can help you, it will.
It's written based on the 5-minute chapters created for the DVD, easy to read, with lots of pictures.
This easy to read guide is aimed at small groups using PA systems for podium and stage microphone, like churches and self-help groups, and makes concepts clear.
Topics include how to avoid feedback by understanding what it is, with details and many illustrations covering speaker placement, microphones, mixing boards, and active and passive speakers.
Adapted from the DVD "PA Systems For Small Groups," the project to create the DVD, which became the book, was to help schools, churches and self-help groups who often have meetings in venues which require sound reinforcement.
The author traveled throughout North America recording special events, including state conventions, held by Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon groups.
He's a journalist who learned microphone use on radio, and while bringing some help to the conventions by providing his services free for over a decade, he realized how common feedback was, and saw too many times how easily it can ruin the entire event, if no-one knows how to stop it.
If this sounds like a book that can help you, it will.
It's written based on the 5-minute chapters created for the DVD, easy to read, with lots of pictures.
