De-Feedback Plugin for Working Musicians: More Gain, Less Feedback with Devin Sheets

About this episode

The episode features Devin Sheets discussing the development of the De-Feedback plugin for live sound feedback control and the innovative techniques behind it.

You’re invited into a legacy family audio business that refused to accept “good enough” on feedback control and instead chased the impossible: a truly zero‑latency, AI‑driven way to push your PA louder without squeals. You follow Devin Sheets from growing up on sound gigs to roaming European stages, then back home to build De‑Feedback plugin for working musicians, a live sound feedback plugin and on‑the‑fly impulse‑response generator that listens like a seasoned engineer: separating human voice, room reverb, background noise, and feedback in real time so you can grab at least 6 dB more gain before things start to howl. Along the way you see how NAMM sparked the idea, how inverse impulse responses and probability math beat old EQ and gate tricks, and how “homebrew AI” meant sneaking into every empty church at 3 a.m. just to teach the model what real rooms actually sound like. You also learn how to think like a modern working musician: using social media to find the right AI programmers across the world, leaning on LLMs to translate, collaborate, and even rate contractor work so you can move faster without losing control. You come away knowing you can drop a dedicated De‑Feedback…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Hamilton

Guest: Devin Sheets

Topics covered

• audio technology
• live sound
• feedback control
• AI in music
• musician tools
• sound engineering

Keywords

• feedback control
• live sound
• AI-driven technology
• musician tools
• sound engineering
• impulse-response generator
• NAMM
• social media
• contractor work

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NAMM

Products: De-Feedback plugin

Places: Europe, church

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