How do you get guitar feedback when an amp is out of the question?

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I just crank up my monitors loud enough to get some feedback going, but not too loud so I don't damage my monitors, then hit record. This sounds exactly like what an amp would sound like with feedback. Try it.
 
yeah i've gotten feedback by using my vamp2 direct and putting my guitar's pickups in front of one of my monitors.
 
Tim Walker said:
It's all in the fingers. I can make an acoustic feedback!


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No you can't, your just ringing a harmonic. Acoustics dont feedback...theres no loop going on. Other than resonation.
 
Tim Walker said:
It's all in the fingers. I can make an acoustic feedback!


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If you mean plugged in, that's not a difficult feat, because the body is extremely prone to resonance, sometimes unwanted.
 
At one point, I thought it would be neat to make loops that were ebow guitar sounds. And I put some effort into making them sustain at infinite length. Don't know if this is useful, but you're welcome to give this a try (you can either open this up on ACID or Fruity Loops, or just copy and paste in an audio editor to make a longer sound):

http://smalltimecharlie.com/small_time_charlie_ebowD.wav

But I tend to agree that the best way to do this is to create another track where you create your own feed-back somehow. That will give the best blend with your actual guitar tone, I think. Maybe you can try the ebow and your own feedback mixed together....


dogbiscuit said:
That's a very kind offer and would be very much appreciated if u could. :) I'm doing a cover of 'should I stay or should I go' by the Clash. I am trying to adapt it by stopping after the second verse (letting the chord ring out) and adding some feedback as if the song is ending. Then it's gonna kick in with the end chorus (like as if it was being played live). You get the picture? I'm not sure how long I need. Perhaps about 12 seconds, but it really depends on how the feedback fits in with the song. Ideally more than one sample of feedback would be useful or even like about a minute of feedback to pick out the most suitable part and fade it in where necessary. If it doesn't work then I will just revert to the original song structure and leave it out but it would be good to try it out.
The chord which rings out is a standard 'D' chord. The guitar sound is jangley (plexi lead, 4 times 12" green 25's, mic on axis), similar to the original. You may not want to concern yourself with those PODXT settings, Im just trying to give u as much info as I can think of to describe the tune.
It's quite punky so I'm after quite a punk-rock feedback with sorta fluctuating tone/texture and maybe those clicky/Hendrixy sounds! You know, like there's all sorts going on!
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I have a pod xt live and a variax. It can feedback. You might laugh at me though. The way I make it feedback is by hitting the side of the guitar so all the strings start moving by themselves. Lol kind of hard to explain. I use an open palm and hit on the side just above the strap button. I usually get sustaing and controllable feedback. Good luck and don't break your guitar.
 
Its REALLY SIMPLE. You just turn your monitors up and get feedback as you normally would. And it will record because you're creating a loop that gets fed into the pickups of the guitar. I've done this on many occasions with a POD and when the guitar amp was in a different part of the building with the guitar player in the control room. The only drawback is that there are usually two types of feedback associated with the POD. 1 is really nice that is akin to a real amp and a nice guitar. The second is nasty and is a result of semi-microphonic pickups and the POD. You know what I'm talking about, the disgusting squeal that is completely uncrontrollable. Perhaps this is what you want though. But anyway, real simple

Rory
 
TravisinFlorida said:
but that feedback won't get recorded unless you throw a mic up in front of the monitors. i'm not sure how that would sound.
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Yeah it would. Being that its feedback, obviously the sound's going back into the input source (ie the guitar) anyway.
 
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