Feedback Buster for Acoustic

Edja

All

I have a McIlroy A35c (I know I know, lucky me)!! However, the soundhole is bigger than the standard soundhole (don't have measurements), so yer standard feedback buster for acoustic is too small. I did a gig in Doonbeg golf club at the weekend for all these extremely rich folk in a big posh marquee, and there I was with a beermat held on with masking tape on me beautiful McIlroy!:o:( Looked terrible! Anyhoo, are there larger feedback busters than the standard available????

Tanx
Edja

punchdrunk

serves you right,posh git!

eh i've seen fancy ones made of hardwood somewhere before,stew mac maybe?
they might be bigger than standard,they would probably suit the guitar better than a beamish mat!

oh and pics or GTFO!!

Fad

Dont be so finnicky, just use a CD shiney side facing out

Kenny_D

Drop dermot an email. I'm sure he'll recommend something being a gigging musician himself. He's pretty good in that he'll prob answer it personally. At least that was the case when I emailed him

Eoin Madsen

Why do you need a feedback buster? It pretty much kills all the resonance in the guitar top. Ick.

Fingers Mcginty

What pickup does your guitar have?

Edja

Hello all

Yes I am a posh git, and proud of it! Tried the CD and still a boom, maybe its the way we have the sound done, but even knocking back on the lows on the desk, it still is fairly boomy, dunno.... Pick-up is a Fishman Natural 1, so no onboard EQ.
GStorm, forgot about trying Dermot, I'll drop him an email.

Thanks
Edja

Eoin Madsen

Edja wrote: »

Tried the CD and still a boom, maybe its the way we have the sound done, but even knocking back on the lows on the desk, it still is fairly boomy, dunno.... Pick-up is a Fishman Natural 1, so no onboard EQ.

"Boomy" meaning what precisely? Is it feeding back into monitors etc? A good acoustic guitar really should not ever need to have something placed in the soundhole or anywhere on the body. Does the guitar have a cutaway, and what kind of DI are you using? If you're going to dampen down the top, you might as well be playing plank of wood with a piezo pickup in it tbh.

Can you record the DI signal into something?

Edja

Hi Eoin

Sorry, by boomy I suppose I mean the feedback! Seems to be very prominent on the 5th string 3rd Fret (c). It has a cutaway, and I'm not using any DI! Maybe thats my problem? (Don't understand enough about guitars and sound and stuff to know I'd need these!! I know, I should with a guitar like that!)!

Eoin Madsen

If the signal is going any distance at all (more than 10m) then you'd definitely want to have a DI box in there. Tbh, even if you're plugging straight into a mixer beside the stage, a good DI would still improve the impedence matching.

Is it your own sound system, or are you just having trouble with sound systems generally? If feedback is the issue then you need to get a graphic eq so the stage monitor can be tuned properly. You shouldn't be having that problem with that guitar, and you definitely shouldn't be fixing it by compromising the tone of the guitar. I'd look for a fix in the sound system here.

Kenny_D

I think he has the Bose L1 system:

http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&product=l1_m1

Fingers Mcginty

I have the exact same system in my Gibson. Fishman pickup...lovely sound.
Soundmen love it as it doesn't feedback Anytime i've used it I've gone into a DI and straight into the desk.