Artifical feedback?

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HandsOfDespair

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The band I'm mixing asked to me to add feedback on the guitars tracks, because they recorded directly thorugh their toneport...how would they create feedback when there is no speakers? and would it be possible to add it with a vst or something?

how do feedback ¯\(°_o)/¯
 
I don't think you can because I'm pretty sure you need speakers for that. I don't know of any feedback samples or anything that you could blend in ... but shit, that could be pretty cool actually

Who do feedback sample? ¯\(°_o)/¯
 
They make a VST version too. Sucks, IMO. Not even close to real, screaming feedback. But maybe I don't know how to use it. But it's not like there's many controls.
 
Yea i use pod xt for tracking guitars and just had a band ask me about feedback as well. That plugin looks neat but i don't want to spend 100.00 on that if there is a easier way...
 
Satch recorded an album entirely direct, but there was a part where he had feedback. When asked about it, he said he just used a small amp (like a pignose or something) just for that one part, just to make the guitar feedback.
 
Executioner213 said:
Satch recorded an album entirely direct, but there was a part where he had feedback. When asked about it, he said he just used a small amp (like a pignose or something) just for that one part, just to make the guitar feedback.
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I do (kinda) the same; I route the guitar out from my interface into my multi effects pedal into my amp, without the gate, alot of gain and alot of volume - then I play in a sweet-spot where the notes feedback how I want them to.
 
Laugh if you want. I've described this once a long time ago. I record direct. When I want feedback, I use a home made Sustainiac system. I split my signal from my guitar. One goes straight to the interface for recording as usual. The other goes to my POD, with a patch set up for a high gain sound. I have an old headphone set with massive drivers that I've mutilated. I just hook it up to the headphones out of the POD, and rubber band the driver (I cut the other off) tightly to the guitar headstock and crank up the output of the POD. You'll get feedback. It doesn't work quite as well as a Sustainer system, but it's free, and I've been doing it for years. :) For different harmonic tones, I just adjust the tone of the sound from the POD, or move the driver placement.
 
In my band we record cabs but for feedback stuff we just hookup a splitter and have an amp in the control room that the guitarist "works" for feedback. We actually punch in the last chords of sections etc. and crossfade them. This works well and would work fine for di guitars as well. There are also the sustainer, sustainiac and ebow options.
 
Well, I am thinking just like that, but using a sample of a kick or snare is acceptable, so why not a feedback sample? Like, I know some songs have looooooong feedbacks with nothing else playing at the same time, you take that feedback and run it through an elastic audio program and then, dunno! I might try it out this week-end because I am also in the process of mixing a DI guitar and I love feedbacks.
 
Well for my bands demo there's a few parts where I used feedback-it was all Di'd and all I did was crank my monitors and treat it like a normal amp. worked fine, fed back like normal and was fine when I played it back through a sim
 
That Softube plug-in looks extremely cool, and not just for emulating guitar feedback. Seriously, automated on a vocal track, it seems like it would almost be a kind of delay or ambience effect (juding from the demo videos). I'm gonna try the demo at some point, and if I like it, $100 is pretty reasonable.
 
+1 to a small amp. I use really shitty sounding pedals like the MT-2 or Digitech's Death Metal and just crank the gain.
 
daveotero said:
Just run him live through your studio monitors and turn it way the fuck up. I do it all the time along with normal feedback to get different flavors.
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Is feedback bad for your monitors and or tweeters?

I thought i read something about you can blow your tweeters. I read this years ago and just curious if there is any truth to that?
 
my cheap yamaha keyboard has 2 guitar feedback settings, works to blend with notes being held to sound like sorta real feedback.

boss has an overdrive/feedbacker pedal where when you step and hold, it creates feedback of the note; people seem to have always dissed the OD sound, but the feedback thing it does is very cool.

there is a free feedback VST called "Feedback-y Thing." here home skillet: http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/feedbackything.htm
 
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