Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
...one you experience good feedback, be it Tactile, Visiual, Audio, -vs- bad feedback you will no longer question the term it will be as obvious to you as the Stereo Feedback...
I'm not sure if I'm educated or depressed by your comment Glen! On the one hand, if I should "know it" when I experience it, perhaps my honing and shaving experience has been rather lacking. On the other hand, the discussion here has proved fruitful to me; namely that I'm on the right track and not missing some ethereal "it".

I've been around live sound a lot, and over a long period of time. But I can remember several different occasions where feedback reared its head and the person holding the mic (or irreverently jacking with the board) looked up shocked and said something to the effect of "What was that!?!" Experiencing it didn't tell them what it was, but having someone to name it did...but that's also the benefit of learning to hone from someone as opposed to learning as you go.

Bruno's definition is certainly the most concise and clinical. But it also answers the question, as it were, as to what constitutes "feedback."

Peace,
Jim