How do you connect an overdrive pedal to a microphone into a PA system for live shows?

You don’t….

What causes feedback is the mic picking up the sound coming through the speakers, which it amplifies, which comes out the speakers, etc…. thus the term “feedback”

Hooking up an overdrive pedal to a mic is kind of like throwing gasoline on a fire.

You can reduce feedback by placing the mic behind the speakers and by using your EQ to cut out the particular frequencies that are most prone to feeding back (which depends on the room itself, placement of the speakers, characteristic of the microphone, position of planetary alignment, butterfly wings flapping in china, sunspot activity, etc….)

@YoBob But I’m interested in that boxy clean over driven overall super dry sound. See here

Any suggestions for live?

Use a computer to make the effect.

Yep. Most mixers have a way to patch in various effects. Do it at the mixer rather than running your mic directly through an effects box.

what do i tell the sound tech? “make it super super dry?”

@XOIIO connect a laptop to the PA system for live performance?

Tell him to slightly overdrive the preamp so it will clip just a tiny bit when you swallow the mic.

I really do miss being a rock star….

@auhsojsa Yeah, essentially, not that hard to do.