Adam Rafferty Hey Adam!!! I beat you... I got the first comment, even before you!!! 😁😁😁 Yes I have a hard time with feedback for my acoustic guitar at live gigs all the time... I used that black rubber disk but the feedback is still very bad. Still looking for solutions... BTW, I play a Taylor (412ce) and I use a small PA. Love that you used Billie Jean video here... I had fun making my own fingerstyle rendition of that tune too!!! 👍🎸💕

@@JessMancuso Jess try the advice in the vid to get rid of feedback! :-)

Hey there! Great video! I did an outdoor show with my L.R. Baggs Anthem pickup and had some nasty feedback. I was able to eq it out through the PA, but would prefer not to mess with my sound. Just like you suggested, I rolled it all the way to the piezo, but to no effect. A feedback buster would be a great option to prevent this in the future, but the Anthem has soundhole controls that make it impossible to insert a buster in the soundhole. Any thoughts?

@@flannelpastor Cullen - what was your position in relation to the speakers? If you can get the sound UP AND OUT and away from you - that will help. If the guitar "hears" that sound it will feed back. Soundchecks are important - because you may have to have someone reassure you that it's good out front, even if it feels to quiet or not right on stage. I bet some positioning changes would help. If it's truly impossible to fix, you may need a guitar like a Yamaha silent :-( - but try the feedback buster first. The brand of DI (or baggs) is fine, that has nothing to do with the feedback. :-)

@@adamrafferty the speakers were well in front of me. There were some big concrete structures that felt like they were really bouncing the sound back at me.

I have had the same problem with fine jazz archtops. Sometimes a solid or thin axe sounds nowhere near as nice but behaves on the gig!

Certainly ! But those early reflections suck when recorded…these things tighten the room sound.

MHFROX yep a notch tweak can help!!! Glad you like the vids 😀. Keep rockin it!

Emiul - you will end up cutting frequencies that you want. In my opinion, it's all about the physics. Get the speakers up in the air pointing away from you and use minimum volume on a monitor. If you have a mic, that's usually the problem - pull mic volume down and then let the pickup do the work. :-)

latinumbavariae good to know, must check this out.

latinumbavariae thank you!

Excellent Tolga!

Thanks & groove on! 😊

I liked your comment 😀

Andrew - thank you so much 😊

Graham - thank you so much 😊

I just fixed it up, thank you!

That is often because there is a note that resonates a guitar more than others. Could be that D is the magic note. Can you get the PA speaker to your left side?| Is a stage monitor blasting at you and the guitar? Have you gotten a feedback buster (rubber stopper) for the soundhole? Could you (gulp) use a different guitar - although the 414 should be fine. How much of a soundcheck can you get in ahead of time, or are you plugging and playing at an open mic? You may need a multiband EQ (you can find pretty good pedal EQ's) and experiment until you notch that frequency down - but I'd do that as a last resort. More equipment often overcomplicates things. Good luck!

Yes! It may be just a few notes doing that. You may have to get crafty with left hand muting, I mute lots of strings to clean things up. Once plugged in it’s a new beast.

@@adamrafferty Ya I have a PA system with two speakers out front and a monitor facing me, all connected to a mixer. I have a sound hole cover for my acoustic guitar and like I said playing without a capo I have zero feedback but when I put that capo on I think a few notes are creating the feedback.

Only thing around is nit great :-) I'l post some stuff....

Been there!!! Try a feedback buster soundhole cover - it'll help a little.

LOL!

Thats totally normal. Your guitar (and every guitar) has some frequencies that will vibrate it more than others - a resonance. It sounds like you need a solid electric guitar or maybe a Yamaha Silent guitar for this. Trust me, I fought feedback with expensive jazz guitars for years and it made my gigsa miserable experience. When I got the right guitar (more solid & electric) it all cooled out! You need the right tool, even though the Breedlove is a great guitar.. Borrow an electric maybe from a friend and give it a go at church next time.

@@adamrafferty Thanks for your response. I'm planning on learning lead on electric soon. I was just wondering, would that feedback buster help with this issue, or is it going to happen regardless?

@@timothygreer2400 If you have a MIC and a pickup, turn the mic in the guitar OFF and yes try the feedback buster :-)

Joe my biggest AHA was using a small PA instead of an amp - gets the sound up and away from you, into the air of the room. YEs you can dial frequencies down too, but I feel that's a band-aid and not solving the problem. It will cut the frequencies also for when you want them. After years of touring, I've not eliminated feedback with EQs but with placement of where I am in relation to the speakers. Keep trying new stuff! I just say this so you don't have to compromise the signal.

@@adamrafferty will do man! Thank you for replying 🤟🏻

I highly suggest doing a set up where you have a small amp that you are familiar with, use that as a monitor and then do a DI out of there into the PA system. Make sure that you have the amp to your left side as that will reduce the feedback, and also make sure you’re not standing too close to the PA system. I have had gigs we’re depending where I stand on the stage I get horrible feedback and I have to actually change where I’m standing. Dealing with Feedback for many years was the bane of my existence so I suggest if the guitar is a problem get yourself a guitar that behaves when it’s turned up at loud volumes. Some of my guitars are better suited for PA and higher volumes. Rock on!

Thanks & groove on! 😊

Glad to hear it was helpful! 🎸😊

Thanks Jess!

Thanks & groove on! 😊

I suspect that will add problems on top of problems. As you play beautiful notes that fade to silence an artificial silence will cut those notes off as they get quiet so it won’t really help you with feedback- it’s better if you deal with the problem at the source.. Give it a try but I’ve never had any luck with noise gates and acoustic guitars. Groove on!

Agreed, a noise gate will not solve the problem; once I tried to use my noise gate in desperation when I got unexpected feedback; I could remove the booming feedback but my sound would also cutout.

Jerry Use your line array PA system and get the speakers a distance away from you. Try not to be backed into a corner as that creates a swell of base. Get a feedback buster if you can, that little rubber thing that goes in the guitar sound hall. Those really help. If you have a separate control for the microphone in the guitar turn it down and just inch it on until the point of feedback. I usually put the amp at my left side up on a chair facing me directly so the side of the amp is facing to the audience. That is my monitor which I can always turn up ever so slightly if I don’t hear myself well. You’d be amazed what the little PA system will do, it’s physics. First of all the sound is much brighter than an amplifier. Second it gets it up into the air and out into the room unlike an amplifier which is down by everybody’s legs and usually does not have the high end. The other thing to remember is that music lives on an entirely different frequency than conversation you really don’t need to play over people. You’d be amazed that even at a low volume the music will fill the room despite the conversations. Good luck!

@@adamrafferty Oh way thanks for the in-depth reply. I will use all the ticks you mentioned. Unfortunately I will have to play in the corner as that is their spot for musicians. Will try and fit the PA a bit further so only the small amp that works as a monitor will be in the corner.

Are you using a small PA system, or an amplifier? Amplifiers tend to feedback more. Also put the amp towards your left side rather than the right side. I highly suggest a small PA where you can get the speakers up in the air and away from you.

@@adamrafferty small pa, ( or house pa) with speakers in front of me and guitar straight into the desk. No amp.

@@keithharris4620 if you use a small amp and then go di put into the pa you might feel a greater sense of ease and control. For years I did NOT do that - just guitar into pa and boy did I suffer! A small amp may really help.

@@adamrafferty thanks, I'll give it a try

Alex Martin Hey! One thing I left out was that each guitar can have peculiar notes. My maton actually has a frequency in between the low G and G# that likes to ring. Some people recommend a notch filter where you can duck frequencies out. I don’t like this as much because they seem to also lower important frequencies. But other people swear by them! You’ll have to experiment yourself but overall being quieter with the amp and pumping out to a PA system ought to help. Thank you for commenting!

Thanks, Adam!

I think it's just called "Feedback Buster" - try a guitar store. I guess i got lucky.

Hi I have a maton and I can fit a Hole Master in it. I think it is a sm size . It comes with a humidity care system .

Does it have a battery? If your acoustic guitar has eq or tuner on it then it most likely does.

Probably won't sound great, but you can try :-)

I know a top pro mixer who dioes the following - use a vocal "de-esser" and automate up just during teh squeaks, then duck it down right away, that will take the bit out of it!

Nylon version works well with a band. I am not in love with the steel string version. I would always record acoustic. :-). However, I did once plug the steel in at a soundcheck over a PA system, and it sounded surprisingly good.

@@adamrafferty thanks

See my groove slap video :-). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jMyZoNBlv96vYaM.html. As well as the old 2008 Stevie Wonder lesson vids...

@@adamrafferty accitiauly when I plugged it into my mobial phone it didn't sound.Adam pls help

Yes, that’s called “sympathetic vibration” - so for example if you play E on the 4th string 2nd fret, the low 6 string will resonate the same note (the 12 fret harmonic on 6 string). To fix that you actually have to work on your muting - I.e. using free fingers to damp strings you are not playing. It’s a very inconvenient reality but all electric guitarists and bass players deal with that all the time. I hope that helps ! 😀

@@adamrafferty Hi Adam, wow thank you for the answer! Yeah, this is how I'm dealing with it all the time, by muting with my free fingers, palm, or whatever way I can do it. But this effect is specifically stringer only on one of my guitars (the nylong string alhambra with a cutaway), it just rings like crazy! All other guitars I have and have played (steel string, nylon, electric...) can be dealt with, but this one is insane :) That's why I just wanted to know what could cause this, though I suppose it's probably due to the construction of the guitar. Unless it's something else, like the strings or so...? Thanks again for the reply!

@@zerosiii Hey man! NO - actually on all guitars YOU have to mute the strings. This one is just more resonant, so you are hearing it more. You will have to practice the muting - don't blame the guitar! As an amplified steel string player - I play fingerstyle at HIGH volumes live, so I am extra sensitive to this, and actually have to build the muting into my arrangements.

@@zerosiii try tuning the darn strings with a tuner. make each open string "perfect" this will set the harmonics ever so slightly off, and lower the effect of the sympathetic vibration. This one is being such a pita because the harmonics are PERFECTLY in tune with the string you are playing at the time. Or just 'lern to mute, git good" lol.

Any acoustic with an OD pedal is asking for trouble. I'd start with turning off the mic completely, just use bridge pickup - then say a few Hail Mary's :-)

It’s specifically made for acoustic the distortion pedal. But I think it does nothing for the mic. I’ve turned mic right off as well it still feedsback

@@joe_casinoacoustic1773 Ah, did not know that! Try a feedback buster for sure. If that doesn't work, try a Strat :-)

Yes I have a page with music. I use a feedback buster already so it looks like I’m buggered

Try it and you'll find out :-)

@@adamrafferty might as well