Can you define "harsh" please? Does your sound "pop" to life when you suddenly have a strong signal, or is it certain frequencies that are annoying? Or does it pop into distortion and break up on certian high notes.. what is soudning uncontrolled??
You may need a compressor to catch some of those peaks (an Alesis 3630 works very well and is inexpensive--but DBX and Drawmer are much nicer quality)--or your gain structure may need some tweeking.. You can use the Dead On Demand EQ to cut some of the harsh frequencies--typically 2k-5k dipped. As what others said--how is your EQ set? Please--there are no smiliey or frowny face EQ curves in Live Audio... Should be at -0-db ref FLAT with a few slight cuts in some frequencies only as needed...
-w
|