jamisonparker feedback guitar tone

[Jakeman1086]

I really love the haunting feedback tones these guys have running through their songs. A good example is the beginning to "Here's Everything I've Always Meant to Say". Can y'all give me all your thoughts on how they achieve their guitar sounds (not only the feedback but also the heavily distorted chords).

I want to know it all. Equipment, types of reverb, effects, techniques. I honestly know very little about feedback and working with it, as I only have experience with software emulators (namely, vintage amp room).

All inputs much appreciated.

 

[DrewPeterson7]

I really love the haunting feedback tones these guys have running through their songs. A good example is the beginning to "Here's Everything I've Always Meant to Say". Can y'all give me all your thoughts on how they achieve their guitar sounds (not only the feedback but also the heavily distorted chords).

I want to know it all. Equipment, types of reverb, effects, techniques. I honestly know very little about feedback and working with it, as I only have experience with software emulators (namely, vintage amp room).

All inputs much appreciated.

I'm completely unfamiliar with the band, but reading your post, something tells me you'd REALLY have fun sitting down with an Ebow and a delay pedal.

 

[Jakeman1086]

I actually do that a lot - and it's a lot of fun

That's not the sound I'm after though. I'm thinking they may very well use an ebow to get their guitar amp to feedback the way it does. I have never used a real amp and use simulations through my studio monitors, so I don't know what exactly this would achieve. Any more thoughts?

 

[DrewPeterson7]

I actually do that a lot - and it's a lot of fun

That's not the sound I'm after though. I'm thinking they may very well use an ebow to get their guitar amp to feedback the way it does. I have never used a real amp and use simulations through my studio monitors, so I don't know what exactly this would achieve. Any more thoughts?

Ahh, ok, nice. I'm an ebow junkie myself.

Well, if the ebow isn't cutting it, and you've never played a real amp, then I'm going to agree with what I suspect your hunch is and say that what you're hearing is most likely the sound of a real amp, in the room, cranked up and allowed to decay naturally into feedback.

Simulations are fun and all, but (and call me a tube snob) I've never played anything that can compete with the sound and feel of a real amp moving some air. This is especially true when you're talking about non-tonal aspects like the musical loop that causes feedback, where the strings begin vibrating sympathetically with the sound waves coming out of an amp...

This may or may not work, but Joe Satriani cut an album (Engines of Creation) entirely direct, using the recording out of a Marshall 6100 head (which actually isn't a half bad speaker simulation, strangely). On the opening track, I think, "Devil's Slide," he got some great feedback sounds just by turning up the monitors enough so that when he was playing through them if he held his guitar close to the monitors it'd start feeding back. I'm not sure how well this will work for you, but in the absence of an actual amp it's worth a try...