Sound guy gets yelled at

[Jagwah]

Video of a sound guy getting yelled at after the singer experiences feedback. What is happening here? Wouldn't feedback be a speaker and mic positioning issue? Would he really be moving the levels of the mic so much it starts feeding back like the singer claims? He was singing at the first instant of the video and it obviously wasn't feeding back then...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/2AbzBZr3bq

[RobC]

I would make things fool proof with either fixing the microphone's position, or putting up an electric fence for animals, so that if such singer goes into the red zone , it gets zapped and backs off. It will still yell, but at least not at me. : D

[motuscott]

I have found tasers work well for keeping singers "in the zone".

[zoidkirb]

It's the sound guys job to tune the fold back wedges to the microphone by filtering out the frequencies that want to feedback at higher volumes.
And then setting a volume that is stable and feedback free, while being loud enough for the artist.

There's actually quite a high skill level required for this.

From this video it's hard to know who's really at fault here. While it is on the sound guy to tune well, and the singer isn't doing anything unreasonable at all such as pointing the mic right into the speaker or cupping the mic; perhaps what we don't see is the singer previously being abusive and demanding ever higher volumes until this happened?

[Jagwah]

I would make things fool proof with either fixing the microphone's position, or putting up an electric fence for animals, so that if such singer goes into the red zone , it gets zapped and backs off. It will still yell, but at least not at me. : D

If only we could pick and choose our clients, this guy would have some trouble!

I have found tasers work well for keeping singers "in the zone".

It's the sound guys job to tune the fold back wedges to the microphone by filtering out the frequencies that want to feedback at higher volumes.
And then setting a volume that is stable and feedback free, while being loud enough for the artist.

There's actually quite a high skill level required for this.

From this video it's hard to know who's really at fault here. While it is on the sound guy to tune well, and the singer isn't doing anything unreasonable at all such as pointing the mic right into the speaker or cupping the mic; perhaps what we don't see is the singer previously being abusive and demanding ever higher volumes until this happened?

It seems like the feedback has been happening over and over again in that session, maybe the levels and positioning are a bit off but it's hard to tell. Also without any backstory it's hard to know is that guy a hot head who flips out all the time, or was the feedback really hurting him. Maybe eventually there will be some more info about it.

[RobC]

Gotta do what Chef Marco did with rude guests. Just throw them out.