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Insane feedback at corporate meeting

I'm not a live sound engineer, I tune the audio in ambulance/police radios, but I'm always told to do the live sound for company-wide corporate presentations for the CEO and top level management. I'm not very good but there is no one else.

They insist on using lapels and I really struggle with feedback. I feel like I've done everything I can:

- swapped to cardioid lapels

- moved the speakers as far forward and as wide apart as possible (they seem to always stand right next to them no matter where I put them)

- tried to give them a brief of what to do (most don't listen)

- made sure the mics are placed correctly (because they insist on lapels, they swap them around because we only have 3, so they end up in all sorts of funny positions, sometimes upside down)

- sent the mixer outputs to a sound card for parametric EQ (has crashed twice recently - i know this isn't a great thing to do but it's all I have)

Despite all this, I still get insane feedback and I struggle to get people to understand. They always think I'm an idiot for not just 'turning it up'. I'm 99% sure it's the room causing the issue. We do it in our cafeteria and the ceiling is quite low.

Does anybody have any tips for what I could try next? I thought about trying to suggest the idea of headsets instead?

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u/pigispig — 11 days ago
▲ 94 r/retrobattlestations

Back to the 2000's - my current home office setup

Pretty much everything in this picture was made between 1999-2007.

Photo taken on camera from 2001.

u/pigispig — 3 months ago
▲ 10 r/careerguidance

I've (28M) worked at my dream job as a team of two for 4 years and I really love it. My team member left and I had been alone for about 6 months. We recently replaced them with a new engineer (30F) who is two 'ranks' above me. In inverted commas because the ranks here seem to mean different things to different people. (Being ranks above me doesnt necessarily mean they are my superior).

Since they started, I am no longer getting invited to important meetings and everyone comes specifically to talk to her about things instead of me, despite myself having the technical knowledge built up over 4 years. It's not her fault though, and she often forwards me any invites for meetings I havent been invited to, but I always feel awkward and like i'm not wanted there.

Anything I say often gets ignored and we end up having a whole string of meetings before someone else comes to a conclusion which is exactly what I had already told them 4 weeks earlier! and everyone praises them like it was their own idea. Very frustrating not only because I dont get the recognition but also the time wasted.

Am I right to feel this way or am I being overly sensitive, or perhaps blinded by jealousy?

Should I speak to me manager, despite him partially also doing the sidelining?

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u/pigispig — 5 months ago