How to Arrange Your Sound System Onstage Part 3

CD/Cassette Players

For music, surely everyone bring their own CD, cassette tapes, MP3 players, iPod, apple notebooks, and other laptops. Just make sure that these gadgets are easy to cue when you're going to use them.

Lectern Microphone

If you are going to have a speaker up in a podium, a snow-cone shaped microphone is not advisable because it has the tendency to block the speakers face. Instead, select a low-profile gooseneck kind of microphone. Its slim shape allows a good view of the speaker's face plus it delivers a great sound. Make sure to include at least two of these lectern microphones in your sound equipment rental.

Wireless Microphone

Speakers like to use wireless lavalier microphones when speaking. These kinds of mikes are easy to carry around the stage and down the audience and they give great sound too. However, wireless microphone can be a hard work for a soundman.

The lavalier are often used away from the speaker’s mouth so the soundman must increase the volume risking the unpleasant whistling sound of acoustic feedback. In this case, your soundman must be experienced and is able to handle cases like these.

Feedbacks and Audio Equalizers

To eliminate acoustic feedbacks, you must secure feedbacks and audio equalizer units. It is inevitable that the speaker will step into the audience and thus this makes him/her placed in front of the audio speakers. The result is a catastrophic acoustic feedback.

Acoustic feedback occurs when the sound that is amplified from any loudspeaker re-enters the sound system through an open microphone. This already amplified sound is amplified over and over again.

Feedback is a common problem at any event that has sound systems. Therefore in able to prepare for it, make sure that you have an experienced technical support. It is up to these people to make the sound quality better and pleasant to your audience. A good IT solutions provider is aware of these things so they know what equipments to provide you.

If you are planning to organize an event, be hands on with it and take note of the useful information above.