Pro Sound Web: I ran across the following while reading through some old SynAudCon newsletters. My thanks to Peter for allowing us to share it with you here. As Pat Brown of SynAudCon noted, “These are for real - there are people out there that really believe them. This makes for good job security for all of us!”
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This is hysterical. While admittedly I don't understand what some of these "tips" mean, the ones I do understand are ridiculous. Number 7, are you kidding me, from experience I can definitively say that feedback happens all the time, especially during sound check and rehearsals. Number 8 is a good one too. I guess there is some truth to it since by not using phantom power with condenser mics you wouldn't get feedback, since the mic wouldn't actually work! The one about turning eqs upside down in the rack to make them phase inverting is a good one too. As long as people seriously believe these I agree that there is definite job security for trained sound engineers.
Some of the "advice" given here is hysterical. I've heard a few of these before, but some of these seem just ridiculous. Of course, there are nuggets of truth in some of these, which is a big reason why this list is a problem and why some of these things seem so believable. For example, number seven. All though it's BS, it's similar to the idea that there's a chance that things that were okay before can still go wrong during a performance. Either way, I'm glad that someone took the time to set straight a lot of these myths about sound
Wow, these are pretty great.
I think my favorite is number 8, which is arguably correct:
“8. Disconnecting the phantom power is an infallible remedy for feedback when using electret and condenser microphones.”
Assume that the cause of the feedback is from that microphone, then yes, it will eliminate the feedback on that mic. Of course, the mic also just won’t work.
Some of these are pretty dumb, but some of these myths are also understandable mistakes. Maybe this article would benefit from providing an explanation as to why some of those are myths and not fact. It just feels like they’re alienating their readers.
These tips are quite hilarious as most people would seem to argue. While it seems that there are sprinklings of truth in this article I think that the overall satire that it gives off is almost overwhelming. 15 and 16 seem to be my favorite, "15. It is best to equalize a system using pure tones rather than pink noise as they are far more musical." and, "16. Good microphones don’t feed back." Just because these are the most ridiculous to me (and 15 is the most hilarious). ALL mics have the potential to feedback, NO MATTER how "good" they are. It's funny to know that somewhere in the industry people are reading these and ACTUALLY BELIEVING THEM!
These tips are quite hilarious as most people would seem to argue. While it seems that there are sprinklings of truth in this article I think that the overall satire that it gives off is almost overwhelming. 15 and 16 seem to be my favorite, "15. It is best to equalize a system using pure tones rather than pink noise as they are far more musical." and, "16. Good microphones don’t feed back." Just because these are the most ridiculous to me (and 15 is the most hilarious). ALL mics have the potential to feedback, NO MATTER how "good" they are. It's funny to know that somewhere in the industry people are reading these and ACTUALLY BELIEVING THEM!
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