Feedback Prevention Research in the Press

News! On April 2nd, 2008, New Scientist broke the story of our work on acoustic feedback prevention, and original articles and interviews quickly appeared on BBC Radio 4's six o'clock news, on BBC World Service, in the Guardian's main section, ITN News and LBC's Morning Report.

John Moore of Jesus and Mary Chain had an amusing response in Guardian Online

and the story was picked up on radio news summaries (LBC, short mp3 file) and Virgin Media, Channel 4, Google News, Yahoo News, etc.

To find out what all the fuss is about, have a look at these two videos that we've produced, which show our software in action. The first video is simulated, and the second is in a realistic recording environment. In both cases, the mixing engineer is able to modify the sound however is wanted. But the moment he turns the software off, feedback reappears.

Return to our page on automatic mixing techniques to find our about our related research in other aspects of mixing and live sound engineering.

Enrique Perez Gonzalez and Joshua D. Reiss

Publications

E. Perez_Gonzalez and J. Reiss, "An automatic gain normalisation technique with applications to audio mixing", in Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 124th Convention Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008.