The wedges and fills on stage are all about you, but here are a few tricks to help avoid feedback.
-To be clear, feedback is that horrendous squealing sound that makes everyone forget about everything but that horrendous squealing sound.
-Remember that this is a live show and we need to get your voice above everything else on stage so please sing hard, loud, and clear into the microphone.
The best distance is, your lips approximately 1 inch from the mic, any further and we will begin to hear surrounding instrumentation.
-Please do no “cup” the mic, this means to grab or hold the mic at the top or “ball”. Although this looks cool, it creates a “boxy” vocal sound and promotes feedback.
-If you move around with the mic, be aware of your surroundings. Pointing a mic at a speaker or simply getting the mic to close to a speaker will cause vicous feedback which can lead to damaged mics, speakers and eardrums.

This is important to note when leaning into the crowd mic in hand.
Please remember that the engineers have a responsibility to the house to protect the gear. Blown speakers equal less work, hence we will go to 11, but that’s it.
If the vocals aren’t clear, start by reducing extraneous instrumentation.