Re: Lecturn mikes was Phildo Lies 3 Times In One Post. What's new?

On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:04:25 +0100, Ron(UK) wrote:

> Mike Dobony wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 May 2008 12:50:50 +0100, Ron(UK) wrote:
>> 
>>> Arny Krueger wrote:
>>>
>>>   Take a lecturn mic. It can't be moved more than a few
>>>> inches without ripping it out of its flex mount. I think we all know
that if 
>>>> you have a mic that goes into feedback when you move it even a few
inches, 
>>>> you are dead. 
>>>
>>> Surely if a lecturn mike is so close to feeding back that moving it 'a

>>> few inches' sets it off, there`s something fundamentally wrong. Either

>>> it`s the wrong mike for the job, a serious mismatch. or there`s a
gross 
>>> problem with either the system or microphone eq.
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> What about absolutely lousy building design?  What about placing a
>> sound-catching, open backed lectern that captures sound and resonates
up
>> the top into the mic and you are fighting between getting enough gain
to
>> make the mic of any use and the feedback.  I have been in many churches
>> where the platform is a very effective sound collector (like the
parabolic
>> mic) and any noise from the pews is focused into the lectern.  Or the
>> platform resonates like crazy?  
> 
> You fix the problem at source - Don`t use a 'sound-catching, open backed

> lectern that captures sound and resonates up  the top into the mic'! 
> change it for something else or modify it so that doesn't happen, or use

> a better mike.
> 

All it needs is money and a new building.  No problem for a congregation
of
25 members from a small town and the pastor needs to have a day job just
to
live on.

> If 'noise from the pews' is getting in the lecturn mike. it`s probably 
> the congregation getting restless ;)
> 
> Ron

I could hear quite talking in the PFL.  There was no room for any more
boost and as it was it was barely amplified, only a few db avobe
unamplified.