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Here are the things to avoid. 1. Holding the cable. The XLR connection is designed so that the lead flops out of the back of the mic. Wrapping the lead round your hand/the mic or any manner of things may look cool, but if the connection is breaking up, you will pay for it in sound problems with even the best leads. 2. Holding the mic too high up. Keep your hand off the grille/capsule. This is the bit of the mic that people will hear you touching. Worse than that, it can cause feedback at much lower levels due to the reflections built up between your hand and the capsule. This will incur the wrath of your friendly engineer and probably mean that your monitor mix will get a whole lot quieter in a big hurry. 3. Swinging the mic round by its cable. You are not Roger Daltrey. Stop it. 4. Pointing the mic at the
monitor. Feedback hurts everyone's ears. See the end
of point 2 above to find out the result. OK. I've practiced in my bedroom. What happens now? You get the gig; and are lucky
enough to get a sound check. Here are a few pointers of
what to do. Firstly, listen to the engineer. They work in a variety of ways, all of them have little quirks in what they like, but are likely to let you know what they want. If you co-operate you are likely to get a good crisp sound and plenty of foldback without running the risk of howling feedback all night. Pete
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