Re: Need Suggestions On Reducing or Eliminating Feedback

1. Don't play so loud.
2. Sit so that your body is between the speaker and the guitar's body.
Try various angles too.
3. Tape up the F-holes with masking tape that will not leave a residue,
painter's tape I think they call it. Or purchase some custom-made
neoprene inserts from dougsplugs.com.
4. If #3 doesn't work try stuffing the guitar body with Kleenex or light
cotton first then tape-up the F-holes again.
5. If none of the above work to your satisfaction then buy a
semi-hollow-body guitar like a 335 or a solid-body.

Lawrie Mann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a home office in my basement that serves as my music room as well.
> It's a 12'x9' room, drywalled, with one piece vinyl *** flooring. Not
> the most accoustic friendly room to start. I play and practice with and
> without backing tracks, usually at a low volume when I'm alone. When I
> want to turn the volume up on my archtop, I'm getting feedback on the
> bottom E and A strings. It get's especially bad when my sax playing friend
> comes over to jam, and I need to crank it up.
>
> I mainly use my Vox, clean tone with a bit of reverb, but I've yet to find
> a setting that reduces the feedback. Another guitar playing (and jamming)
> friend of mine keeps his Fender Blues Deluxe here. I get the same feedback
> playing though his amp. I also have a Roland Cube 20. I don't get any
> feedback when playing through that, but it sounds anemic.
>
> Any thoughts and/or suggestions on how to improve the feedback when using
> my archtop would be appreciated. With a wife and three grown up daughters,
> this is pretty much the only room I can play in. However, sometimes that's
> a good thing :)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lawrie
>
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> Lawrie Mann
> Toronto, Canada
>
> Currently Playing:
> 2004 Godin LG Signature
> 2005 Samick LaSalle JZ4
> Vox Valvtronix AD30VT
> 1968 Ovation Balladeer

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