Zulu - the GTD622 is a good mic (many professional KJ use them for their shows), I use the GTD733
You need to balance your input gains, try the following: (description below is based on using X Air Edit on PC) and have a singer/s help - excuse for a "nhau" party!
1. On the mic receiver, set the volume turned to max (the reason is you want max output from your mic and control the mic level on the mixer) - could by why people say it's not sensitive, but I disagree since my friends tells me the mic is "nhe" which I think means it's sensitive to picking up even soft voice
2. Balance the gain of your inputs (mic and music) on the mixer to match by going into the INPUT tab
3. Increase the Mic Gain level so that the mic and music peak level around -10dB (the meter peak should be yellow in color), this will give you some headroom before clipping (red color, which is bad and you'll get distortions)
4. The music will be easier to set (for me I use the Lexicon with laptop, so on Lexicon I have it at 11 o'clock and input on mixer at 0dB)
5. Mic: this is where the singer/s come in - have them sing into the mic and then increase the gain until it's close or slightly higher than the music peak without clipping (on mine I have the male mic at +27dB and female at +30dB (to account for softer voice)) - though, using the automix feature may help with the balance for duets (I just haven't tried/experiment with it yet)
6. On the MIXER tab, set the mic channels at 0 and music at -3db or so (singer volume should be slightly louder than music) - but when both are active, the meters should be at the same level - from there you can sweep up/down to adjust each channel (but should not have to adjust much)
On the mic eq, try this:
Low cut at 120Hz
300Hz: set at -5dB with Qual at 3 (improve muddiness sound)
900Hz: set at -3dB with Qual at 3 (reduce nasal sound)
6000Hz: +5dB high shelf (add airyness)
Depending on your ear, mic and room - play around with the eq and see what sounds good at each frequency
Also set the gate and compressor (I just use the default VOCAL settings)
btw, you will get some feedback - so play the music at the volume you normally do, then have someone sing and walk around the room, while they do this, choose the main output channel and open EQ tab - choose TEQ and RTA, when you hear feedback you'll see a particular frequency go high - cut that freq to eliminate the feedback (watch this video, also, I use an android tablet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O97SOb3EtLkEdited by user Friday, May 04, 2018 9:24:29 AM(UTC)
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