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| I have a Celebrity Deluxe with OP24 preamp/pickup system. It has the multi-sounholes. I tried playing it live for the first time this weekend, and had to put it away due to the terrible feedback I was getting. I could hear it start to go the whole time I was playing, and had to continually mute the strings to stop it. After the one song, I put it back in it's case, and pulled out my Strat.
I was told by someone (another guitar player) at the gig that there are "plugs" or other feedback eliminators that help with this. I found the "AirLocks" on the web.
Can someone help with advice? Do these things really work? How can I combat this feedback so that I can play this guitar live. The guitar sounds awesome when playing at home.
I appreciate any help I can get. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I have used air plugs before, a long time ago. Personally, I didn't like the sound the guitar created with them in. You can try different variations with which ones are in, depending on the frequency causing the problem, some combinations will sound better. You may not have to put them all in, as I thought at first.
Personally, I'd rather go with an outboard notch filter. Perhaps you can change the preamp and put a USA preamp in with a notch filter built in, but I don't know the details on that...one of the experts here would know more.
A notch filter, if you don't know, has a dial that you turn until the frequency that is feeding back is cut out. Different rooms and different guitar volumes will cause different frequencies to feedback...with a notch filter you can quickly eliminate that problem no matter where you are playing-and if you have it on board you can even change the frequency if needed on different areas of the stage. Several Ovation USA model preamps have this built in, but you can get it in a pedal form. My Godin Multiac actually has 2 of these built in, in case there more than one frequency feedding back.
I'm sure someone more qualified could probably describe this better. Hope it helps a little. |
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Location: Scotland | Ovations, even the imports, have a very high feedback threshold compared to most traditional guitars. If you are experiencing extreme feedback problems a set of airlocks wont help much. You need to look at your entire rig & how you are using it. Most feedback problems are caused by varying combinations of badly eq'd ( or just plain bad) sound systems, over-loud monitors, playing through amps designed for electric guitars, over-use of the guitars onboard EQ, dodgy room acoustics and incompetent sound engineers. If you can eliminate any of these problems and still need to get rid of feedback then a set of airlocks plus one of these will help
http://www.behringer.com/DSP110/index.cfm?lang=ENG |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | What Paul T. just said. |
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Feedback during live performance - help!
