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Indigo_blues
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it could be your drums are bleeding into your mics.. try getting the vocalists to stand further away from the drummer.. think that should help. This is assuming you've already tried pushing the faders.
Indigo_blues
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maybe u could give us a better description of your entire setup..
Indigo_blues
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should be ok. pictures. :wink:
Boy, you are not supposed to use hifi equipment to do a PA job.
Firstly the horns (HF or tweeters) are under powered, so they are the first to blow if you drive it too hard. Playback from CDs don't require much power from the horns as most recordings are already mastered for playback. (eg. with proper compression levels)
Secondly, the woofers (speaker) are not optimised for mids, most uses foam or rubber linings. Again same theory as above.
You can probably get away with it by tweaking the EQ and the instruments playing at moderate low volume. Other than that, just get a simple PA system, one set cost about $400 only. (mixer amp + 2 speakers)
Anyway, boy I pity your neighbors.
Go do your jamming at a studio lah, home is for moderate quiet practise at most, unless you have your own underground basement or sound islolated room. Which will cost more than a whole life of visits to the studios anyway, in SG. :roll:
Firstly the horns (HF or tweeters) are under powered, so they are the first to blow if you drive it too hard. Playback from CDs don't require much power from the horns as most recordings are already mastered for playback. (eg. with proper compression levels)
Secondly, the woofers (speaker) are not optimised for mids, most uses foam or rubber linings. Again same theory as above.
You can probably get away with it by tweaking the EQ and the instruments playing at moderate low volume. Other than that, just get a simple PA system, one set cost about $400 only. (mixer amp + 2 speakers)
Anyway, boy I pity your neighbors.
Go do your jamming at a studio lah, home is for moderate quiet practise at most, unless you have your own underground basement or sound islolated room. Which will cost more than a whole life of visits to the studios anyway, in SG. :roll:
Indigo_blues
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Nice pictures.. nice house or condo?
i notice your walls are very bare.. u must try to put up some sound insulating material like bookshelves, sofa, big rugs etc. to try to absorb as much of the reflected sound waves as possible.. that will help a bit.
The room is very small, hence the drums, which are by far the loudest instument, will overpower whatever vocals you put out.. throat how to fight with drumset? Its no wonder that u say the vocals can't be heard.. and when u turn up the mic volume, it will just pick up the drum sound more that the vocalist's voice... even facing the mic the opposite way won't help cause the room is so small..
one extreme solution would be to put the drummer in a separate room.. haha.. that will work but then u will have problems communicating with each other.
Think mikemann is right, u should probably do your jamming in a real studio, no offence..
Well, the other solution is to build a sound proof barrier around the drummer. But that will be quite expensive.
edit: you could also try muffling your drumset by sticking a pillow in the bass drum and plastering the skin of the snare with some insulating material. This will lower the overall output of the drumset somewhat.
cheers.
i notice your walls are very bare.. u must try to put up some sound insulating material like bookshelves, sofa, big rugs etc. to try to absorb as much of the reflected sound waves as possible.. that will help a bit.
The room is very small, hence the drums, which are by far the loudest instument, will overpower whatever vocals you put out.. throat how to fight with drumset? Its no wonder that u say the vocals can't be heard.. and when u turn up the mic volume, it will just pick up the drum sound more that the vocalist's voice... even facing the mic the opposite way won't help cause the room is so small..
one extreme solution would be to put the drummer in a separate room.. haha.. that will work but then u will have problems communicating with each other.
Think mikemann is right, u should probably do your jamming in a real studio, no offence..
Well, the other solution is to build a sound proof barrier around the drummer. But that will be quite expensive.
edit: you could also try muffling your drumset by sticking a pillow in the bass drum and plastering the skin of the snare with some insulating material. This will lower the overall output of the drumset somewhat.
cheers.
Indigo_blues
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kimmi, i also notice your microphone is facing your speakers! This is a bad idea... it will result in very bad feedback.. you should maybe place your speakers on the opposite wall so your microphone is not facing the speakers.
Indigo_blues
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a drum shield may help but if your walls are bare, then the sound from the drums can still reflect off the wall behind the drums as well as the floor and ceiling, so its back to square one... in such a small enclosed area i doubt a drum shield will help very much.
A studio would have all the proper insulation in place already so the acoustics will be much better.. from the look of your photos i'm sure you get a lot of echo and reverb.. especially from that glass cupboard.. glass is about the worst cause its very hard and just about reflects everything..
A studio would have all the proper insulation in place already so the acoustics will be much better.. from the look of your photos i'm sure you get a lot of echo and reverb.. especially from that glass cupboard.. glass is about the worst cause its very hard and just about reflects everything..
Indigo_blues
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try stuffing a pillow into the drum 1st..that should muffle the kick drum.. also tape some insulation onto the skin of your snare. Some medical gauze is good.