FEEDBACK · SUPPRESSOR · 13
Still Feedback
Catches ringing and howl as it starts and drops a narrow notch on it.
Also in the Speech & Pulpit bundle
What it does
Still Feedback watches for the signature of feedback: a pure, dead-steady tone far above its neighbours that stands out or grows for about a third of a second. A ring that climbs fast is caught at once, notched, and the notch deepens if it returns.
Ring out mode keeps every notch at soundcheck; Live mode uses a small pool during the service; Locked stops new notches. Notches are IIR, so there's no latency, and they're saved with the session.
Key features
- Three modes: Ring out, Live (pool of up to 8) and Locked
- Narrow, Medium or Wide notches, up to 30 dB deep, ramped so they never click
- Music-safe: tested on real songs, piano, strings and speech with no false notches at the default Sensitivity
- Spectrum with every notch marked and the latest catch circled
- Clear live / Clear all
Quick start
- Insert it first on the speech or vocal mic.
- At soundcheck choose Ring out and raise the system gain slowly until it rings; it notches and keeps each ring.
- Back the gain off 3 dB, then switch to Live for the service.
- Use Locked if you want no changes at all.
Controls
| Control | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Mode | Ring out / Live / Locked | Where new notches go, or none. |
| Sensitivity | 0 to 100% | Higher catches rings sooner, with more risk of false catches. |
| Max depth | 6 to 30 dB | Deepest any notch may go. |
| Width | Narrow / Medium / Wide | About 1/20, 1/10 or 1/5 octave. |
| Live notches | 0 to 8 | Size of the Live pool. |
| Watch from / to | 40 Hz–1 kHz / 2–18 kHz | Range the detector watches. |
| Clear live / Clear all | buttons | Remove Live notches, or every notch. |
FACTORY PRESETS
Pastor / lapel mic · Handheld vocal · Choir / ambient mics · Ringing out (soundcheck) · Gentle music-safe
GOOD TO KNOW
In a simulated feedback loop, a howl that reached full scale without it stayed at room-noise level with it. A steady pure tone — a sine synth or a whistle — can still look like feedback, so use Locked for those songs.