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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Helping out the Teen band last night. We have a new guitar player with a Epiphone acoustic equiped with some kind of small condenser mike. Big time feedback! Short of getting him to trade it in on an Ovation, does anybody have any good ideas on how to limit it? |
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Location: NJ | Loan him one of yours? |
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Location: closely held secret | FBQ1502
or possibly a refrigerator box cut at shoulder height.
This has the added benefit of visually hiding the guitar, therefore also limiting the embarassment levels of the rest of the band.. :eek:
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| Turn the mike down as low as possible while still getting a signal then turn up the amp to compensate. Makes for a thin sound but often works. If he's only got a mike on it he is always going to have problems. |
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Location: North Carolina | The feedback occurs as the mic is picking up the signal from the amp, sending it back, picking it back up,etc. The only way to break the cycle is to put a soundhole cover on the guitar so that the mic doesn't hear the speaker, only the guitar. It does affect the tone, though.
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | I'd suggest a feedback buster for the soundhole, but that might really alter the sound picked up by the mic. If there is no piezo pickup in the bridge, short of getting a new guitar he would do better to have an inexpensive one installed. There must be a jack already. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | It has a pre-amp too. I wonder if we could install a sound hole style pickup and run it thru the preamp? Sound like a lot of work to get a poor sounding guitar to sound poor. |
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Location: closely held secret | If you have to get inside to rewire the preamp, you might as well go with a saddle pup.
Sound like a lot of work to get a poor sounding guitar to sound poor. I agree. It's a shame they went to the trouble of putting a preamp an a miked-only guitar and didn't include a notch filter. If it's got eq on the preamp I suppose you could play with that, but as schroeder said, he's always going to have problems amplified.
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Location: East Tennessee | Hi,
Feedback buster is the way to go. Try placing a sheet of paper over the sound hole to see if that is the problem. I saw a guy on a country program do that. May I suggest an ad for Ovation Guitars. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Thanks all. I'll try the paper first and see how it works. |
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