How to Avoid the Feedback When Doing Karaoke

 Usually, having an at-home karaoke machine is a perfect way to get creative in terms of musical entertainment with your friends. However, sometimes, you might need a portable karaoke machine that allows you to throw your party and do karaoke in the garden, backyard, park, or wherever you want.

 

No matter if you have a portable karaoke or stationary karaoke machine, you might face some issues with voice quality due to feedback, which can ruin all the enjoyment during singing.

 

Feedback can occur anytime when you have a microphone that is amplified by a speaker. However, you can minimize or avoid the feedback entirely if you know what causes it and how to prevent it in the first place.

 

In this blog, we will focus on these aspects of karaoke setup. So, if you have any feedback-related problems with your karaoke system, keep reading.

 

 

The Cause of the Feedback When Using a Karaoke System

 

Feedback occurs when a microphone can hear itself when the voice is amplified by an amplifier. So, to prevent feedback, you need to take precautions so that a microphone doesn’t hear itself.

 

To avoid the mic from hearing itself, you need to minimize the amount of amplified sound that comes out of the speaker and goes into the microphone.

 

How to Avoid Feedback Problem During Karaoke Setup

 

To avoid feedback in karaoke:

 

First Tip:

Don’t place the speaker behind the performer with the mic. The speaker should not point toward the back of the performer. When a mic and a speaker are placed in a way that they directly look at each other, it is a recipe for a bad karaoke party.

 

Thus, place the speaker in front of the performer facing the audience. In this arrangement, the mic and the speaker will look in opposite directions and thus, work the best to minimize feedback problems.

 

Alternatively, you can also position the speaker in front of the performer facing toward the performer. In this arrangement, even though the mic and speaker will look in the same direction, they won’t look at each other; meaning, the mic still doesn’t face the speaker.

 

While the former placement method is the most resistant to feedback, the latter placement is less resistant. Besides, the second arrangement allows the performer to hear themselves the best but the audience might not be able to listen to the performer properly. So, whenever possible, always go with the first arrangement.

 

Second Tip:

Another way to minimize the feedback is to get the volume setting just right. You will face feedback issues typically with higher volumes. When the volume is too high, sound can strike the corners and surrounding walls and some part of it comes back into the microphone.

 

Thus, after making the right arrangement of the microphone and the speaker, start adjusting the volume up until it starts developing feedback. Then, turn it down a little below the point where feedback occurs.

 

Also, keep in mind that the performer can also move in different directions. So, the sound reaching the mic can change and cause feedback. Hence, keep the volume a little bit lower than the point where you think it is safe.

 

Whether you are a party organizer or you have invited your friends to your karaoke party, these tips will work in every scenario of karaoke feedback issues.