I'm designing a radio studio, and to prevent feedback, I need the studio monitors to automatically mute themselves when the microphone faders start to go up. It would be nice not to have to do it manually everytime.

I also can't have some DIY job with wires and microswitches! Is there some kind of unit i can buy which does the job?

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tinward wrote:

I'm designing a radio studio, and to prevent feedback, I need the studio
monitors to automatically mute themselves when the microphone faders
start to go up. It would be nice not to have to do it manually
everytime.

I also can't have some DIY job with wires and microswitches! Is there
some kind of unit i can buy which does the job?
x
google shows at least 2 firms who make faders with microswitches fitted.
That's what the pros use.

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:39:40 +0000, tinward wrote:

I'm designing a radio studio, and to prevent feedback, I need the studio
monitors to automatically mute themselves when the microphone faders
start to go up. It would be nice not to have to do it manually
everytime.

Proper faders have micro switches built in, normally at least two.
One for "fader open" to mute the SLS or start a remote machine etc
and one "overpress" for PFL. Ideally there needs to be some automatic
way of only faders that are carrying a studio mic circuit mute the
SLS. BBC studios use the screen of the jackfield mic plugging for
this.

If you can't swap the faders or their price tag is too high or use a
decent desk then don't feed the SLS with studio out but a mix-minus
of the studio mics. This does lose the warning to people in the
studio that a mic fader is off the backstop though.

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tinward wrote:
I'm designing a radio studio, and to prevent feedback, I need the studio
monitors to automatically mute themselves when the microphone faders
start to go up. It would be nice not to have to do it manually
everytime.

I also can't have some DIY job with wires and microswitches! Is there
some kind of unit i can buy which does the job?

Search for "Radio studio mixer", but you'll not like the prices. What
they normally use is a microswitch attached to the microphone fader, and
some electronics to mute the monitor channel. Some DJ mixers have a
similar switch, but only duck the music level.

You could also just turn the monitor speaker volume down all the time so
you don't get feedback, but still have enough volume to have confidence
in what you're monitoring.

Or monitor on headphones.


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On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:28:27 +0000, John Williamson wrote:

You could also just turn the monitor speaker volume down all the time so
you don't get feedback, but still have enough volume to have confidence
in what you're monitoring.

OP said studio monitors not cubicle monitors... B-)

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:28:27 +0000, John Williamson wrote:

You could also just turn the monitor speaker volume down all the time so
you don't get feedback, but still have enough volume to have confidence
in what you're monitoring.

OP said studio monitors not cubicle monitors... B-)


You'll have to explain that BBC studio speak I reckon the O/P Dave..
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Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:28:27 +0000, John Williamson wrote:

You could also just turn the monitor speaker volume down all the time so
you don't get feedback, but still have enough volume to have confidence
in what you're monitoring.

OP said studio monitors not cubicle monitors... B-)

As the OP mentioned a radio studio, I assumed he was talking about
confidence monitoring used to make sure that something is actually going
out to continuity or the transmitter. ;-)

Although a speaker mute relay could also be used to start and stop the
logging recorder to save space.

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John.

On 20/03/2012 3:39 AM, tinward wrote:
I'm designing a radio studio, and to prevent feedback, I need the studio
monitors to automatically mute themselves when the microphone faders
start to go up. It would be nice not to have to do it manually
everytime.

I also can't have some DIY job with wires and microswitches! Is there
some kind of unit i can buy which does the job?

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Shure Vocal Master system used to come with anti-feedback switch.Maybe
there is such an add on unit sold by them


It killed qulity though ... but was useful for setting up a load of
Mics ... once set up complete the circuit was switched off.

In article ,
tinward wrote:

I'm designing a radio studio, and to prevent feedback, I need the studio
monitors to automatically mute themselves when the microphone faders
start to go up. It would be nice not to have to do it manually
everytime.

I also can't have some DIY job with wires and microswitches! Is there
some kind of unit i can buy which does the job?

As had been said, the normal way is via micro switches on the faders. A
level sensing device wouldn't be much use for silence. ;-)

However, why are you feeding studio mics back to the studio foldback
speaker?

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On 20/03/2012 03:39, tinward wrote:
I'm designing a radio studio, and to prevent feedback, I need the studio
monitors to automatically mute themselves when the microphone faders
start to go up. It would be nice not to have to do it manually
everytime....

Ignore it. The OP is not real, and it's a four year old query pinched
from 'Yahoo Answers' so that he can show the Spammy URL.

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Adrian C