Guitar Lesson -- Feedback and Distortion

[AmalgamOfMeat]

I found this video when searching for how to GET good feedback =[

[JustSomeRandomNewb]

My feedback doesn't even stop when I'm playing... It sucks...

[cavenagy]

So the feedback starts, but at 0:02 the sound change, and it looks like he did something, I want to know how to that....anyone?

[ceager2]

Okay! I'm going to: play in a perfectly square room, turn the volume up, set the gain to maximum, turn pickups to 10 and stand right up next to the amp!

[VictorSinha666]

i wanna contorl distortion...HEAVY DISTORTION...

[XDArK2442X]

why does he not show you how to get feedback? because it's really easy to get...

1. turn volume up

2. done

[stabber63]

i love it

[Voivrenetwork]

More feedback!!!!

[ginofranco76]

OMG that was a feedback á la hendrix XD

[GALM1CIPHER93]

Can I get feedback on my bass too?

I have an Epiphone Thunderbird Pro with an Ampeg BA-115 amp

[GALM1CIPHER93]

@GALM1CIPHER93 I want to get and control feedback not get rid of it btw

[MeanGreenMovies]

@GALM1CIPHER93 yes but it's hard to feed back notes that your playing, it only really feeds back if you just take your hands off it and face the amp

[kriauciuniux9]

To get feedback just crank up your volume and stand in front of speaker

[PABrawr]

feedback is one of the most beautiful things you can get out of guitars

[9danielos5]

Brian May at the left <3

[The12Child]

feedback: They want you to throw up

[atinkupongsingsing]

hum debugger by electroharmonix.,works like a charm!

[Shadowknight526]

I just do the opposite of what he's saying

[RonnieDisaronno]

OR you could buy an NS-2...

[chum1002]

Dude..a guitar doesn't have gain controls..

It has a volume knob, pickup switch, and tone knobs.

[deicidalmaniac]

@chum1002 sometimes they have gain controls, like a PA2 switch or afterburner knob, But they only work with EMG's

[RonnieDisaronno]

@chum1002 the volume is actually a gain control. most people hear it as a volume alteration rather than a gain, so it's generally referred to as the volume. sorry!

[yxxxvk]

can you suggest me few pedals to avoide this stupid feedback ? thx !

[toffelinator]

@yxxxvk how can you call feedback stupid, clearly you dont have a good musical ear as feedback if used correctly can sound unreal

[RonnieDisaronno]

@yxxxvk Boss Ns-2. Lifesaver.

[andythefork]

I have to ask what specific model of strat that is. I love the red headstock.

[chum1002]

@andythefork It's a fender select.

[al18631963]

jimi hendrix's control of feedback and distrotion still sounds far more superior than anyone's out there then and since the man was pure genius and very astute guitar player.....

[Person1036]

Bill is a character.

[FatKidCookie]

just get a noisegate pedal lol xD

[Marshallstack3203]

buy a damned noisegate screw volume pedals

[gamergeek3000]

when u say roll the gain on the guitar back u mean volume right? Or do u mean the tone knob?

[MrsLadyButterCheeks]

Pretty sure this is the camera guy from Waynes World

[josephkallifffraude]

I am learning how to create a feedback, and this guy is teaching how to avoid feedback? xDD

[HitmanJenkins1]

@josephkallifffraude He's teaching you how to control it, not to avoid it

[josephkallifffraude]

@HitmanJenkins1 Oh, thanks~

[josephkallifffraude]

This guy is cute~

[MultiScoffer]

please think about explaining the volume and tone knobs on a strat and a les paul in the near future. Thanks!

[josepatches]

Nice guitar

[thehefolomp]

duuude-i-love-feed-back

[sagyas]

I didnt understand what to do..

can someone explain it to me?

[sirdunn11]

I love that guitar.

[SephirothBurger]

what if i want feedback?



[TheMrbongobongo]

@SephirothBurger go closer to the amp. turn the volume up. add gain = profit

[123thebrawler]

@SephirothBurger just do the opposite of what he says...

[100DarkDude]

in smells like teen spirit i rotate up to 10 after the solo.

[TheEasternStandard]

I play hardcore with a semi-hollow. I cut up some of the sound proofing from my studio and put it through the F holes and it killed all my feedback. Now I have all the beefy tone of a semi-hollow without having my sound jacked up by squealy feedback.

[xManicSubsidalx]

You sound like Mathew McConaughey.

[Jakeman8091]

never play in a small garage man, horrible haha.

[CAMF7711]

Is that a JP McClain cardboard cut out? He's my guitar teacher.

[rahmer81]

what do you recommend doing if i have all 3 controls on both my acoustic-electric and the amp? keep my guitar nobs in the middle?

[ChristBurner]

i cant believe there are this many videos on guitar feedback..jesus fucking christ are people really in need of help for this crap , its like we need instructions on how NOT to do something..

[lman2004]

@ChristBurner I love your name.

[ChristBurner]

@lman2004 hahaha iv had it forever (somethin like 1998) its kind of a play on my real name (christopher) never felt a need to change it after all these years..haha my last one was even more ridiculous but i guess thats middle school for ya :)

[kopures]

I like the colourful knobs on the amp

[GuitaristEliKing]

really good video man thanks

[Artgo]

Basement sound is horrible. Gain still 100(wish it was possible lol) tho.

[Crashboy1024]

Yeah... you could go crazy with a volume pedal, trying to eliminate feedback.... or you could get a feedback destroyer and it will do it for you.

[SebaChannel]

nice guy

thanx man, lot help

[dannybiach]

What if I put my amplifier faced towards the wall???

[PieceofMindmusic]

@dannybiach i dont think that will help any to be honest... the best way to get feedback is if you put your guitar pickups facing the speaker so if you speaker is facing away from you guitar is will be tougher to conjure up.

[dannybiach]

@PieceofMindmusic but I dont want feedback!!, I want to have LESS FEEDBACK, because we play at a garage and it gives me a lot of feedback when I put in distortion...

[PieceofMindmusic]

@dannybiach oh well then that could definitely help! also try cutting back the gain on your amp or pedal slightly and try standing farthe away fromt he amp as well...if those thing dont help at all i dont know what will man.

[dannybiach]

what if I put the amplifier against the wall, will that work??

[taterfamine]

but these amps go to 11

[dhansen420]

if you want to control feedback best thing to do is get a noise gate- i used to get terrible feedback until i got a gate and now i only get feedback when i want it

[diegomont406]

when i turn my reverb up all the way when i have a high gain i get feedback!

but then, i turn the volume on my guitar down and the feedback is still there, i turn all my volumes down! all, and the feedback is still there, getting louder! the only way to get rid of it, is to turn my reverb all the way down. why is this?

[jasfer996699]

tnx man. it really helps.

[tylerscom]

My amp only goes to 11.

[TheFitzy777]

love this, i share the same enthusiasm for feedback and LOUD NOISES!!

[spacepartysan]

you don't need to put gain on 11, just crank up the volume and you have a organic nice sound:)

[catarcacha1]

lol, 1:19, he sounds like a rapper...

[drummersteve555]

My '57 Telecaster was made before humbuckers so I get beautiful feedback. :)

[cajake1]

you just need at bigger AMP like the biggest marshal or any brand about 250 watts or more to eliminate the feedback LOL big AMPs are verry durable

[LaynesAddiction]

feedbacking is not something your taught or learn, controlling it comes with lots of practice and really knowing the guitar.

[akdeathray]

Dude your the shit SDMF bro DOOM CREW 4 LIFE!

[Tikomen14]

fuck you, I wont the origunally feedback, not acoplation , see u ....

[gabeuop79]

Noooo, you need MORE feedback, NOT LESS !!! Delicious, sweet feedback. Listen to Unwound, Khanate and Sonic Youth !!!

[MultiParasite]

@gabeuop79

That's the spirit!

[donnietheretard11]

is this guy retarded

[norcalirob1978]

yup. rainbow chaser

[leopower7]

i turn my gain to 30 ._.

[truth3110]

anyone..i have a question...does noise gate eliminate feedback? i have a problem when i jammed with my friends at the studio......i notice there is a feedback which i cant control it...so what i do is that i change the volume down and change my effect to overdrive which is suck.... i prefer to use my own practise amp..hahahaha

[dhansen420]

@truth3110 yes a gate will help-

[natasteewsym]

what about a stomp box?

[silentr0ck39]

is this only applicable to single coil pickups? tnx

[bug0292]

no feedback can happen with anything

[bluepingu345]

no don't think so :)

[silentr0ck39]

so what's best at feedbacks? tnx

[bluepingu345]

not sure but probably humbuckers

[silentr0ck39]

what knob controls the feedbak?

[bluepingu345]

there isn't one as such, but turning the pickup volume off will stop all feedback (and guitar sound). You have to find a good spot in front of your amp...

[ChallengeSting]

humbuckers i gots them yayz!

[jaderoxsable]

tnx dude

[ottawadonburton]

thanks!

[marcinxhs]

it's stupid... If you don't want feedback you should simply use some noise supressor after your guitar signal. btw uncuntrolled feedback is f**king annoying...

[skeightrdude95]

this guy is awesome. i dont usually watch tip videos on youtube but this guy explains it real well. and he does helpful things like this video, i always have horrible feedback.

[thomascompton800]

is gain the same as drive cos my amp has no gain but has drive

[extreme4647]

@thomascompton800, yes it is generally the same. Some amps will have drive and sometimes, like mine, have a "more drive". And some amps will have gain channels, I don't know if you have a gain and more gain but i wouldn't be surprised if you did. what kind of amp do you have?

[thomascompton800]

ok thanks i have a line 6 spider 15 watt im new to the whole elctric guitar thing so thanks

[bluepingu345]

basically yeah :)

[B0B0damonkey]

i don't rotate my gain to 10...I go to 11 =)

[ckyfanrick]

@B0B0damonkey spinal tap?

[youathoz]

@B0B0damonkey i tried, it broke:P

[dark3rbol]

@B0B0damonkey Why don't you just make the highest gain 10, and make 10 the top?

[liamzuid]

@B0B0damonkey I do to infinity =)

[MrMiNiBiLLiE]

jajaja tu eres bien explicas todo muy completa y claramente, gracias me has ayudado muchisimo

[tex8252]

i like this guy,ive played for years but hes givin me new insights..keep em comin man.

[jolli93]

haha yea i feel exactly the same...dude you have optimism and i like that...i wish my guitar teacher can have the same engagement as you ! Rock on ! :D

[laservampire]

I like my knob to rotate about 3 or 4 times around too :-)

[THERISENWILLFALL]

3 or 4 times around lol

[H3xxl0RxXx]

Not always! This feedback is great for an "intro" to a song in rock but in the middle of a song when you don't play for some seconds it might be disturbing for the others in the band..

[alterdcrash]

i disagree

[PieceofMindmusic]

i agree!

[nickOZ88977]

Jimi Hendrix created the guitar feedback u know?

[PieceofMindmusic]

well he didn't create it per say but he was one of the first musicians to popularize the technique, the Beatles first used it on a recording at the beginning of "I Feel Fine" in the early sixties.

but other groups such as the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, MC5, The Who, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer and others used it throughout sixties and that help make it popular too.

[Caconymic]

Also, the band Khanate frequently uses extremely harsh feedback.

[OropherThranduil]

@PieceofMindmusic

yeah, but the beatles where the first to use it on record, the who hadn't done that whiloe using it live, the beatles had the balls, just like they had the first succesfull single over 4 minutes and paved the way for other long classics.

[PieceofMindmusic]

@OropherThranduil they certainly did have balls, they were the band i knew as a kid,  i can remember looking at the cover of with the Beatles and thinking "so this is what a band is..."

[alyssapanikkk]

Err... feedback just happens. It wasn't created to sound good haha.

[DeadKennedysNirvana8]

He got the idea of using feedback from Pete Townshend of the Who.

[guitarspectre]

he forgot to mention that.. because the magnetism in the captors you can blow air from your mouth real strong so you can get some kind of help in feedback i dunno for you guys but its work for me here

[magicbag6790]

or you could buy a Boss Noise Supressor

[blackflag277]

or a ehx hum debugger

[nrlsky]

I want that goldtop in the background...

[darkarrow127]

3:48 whats that like creature to the left of him its like a piece of cardboard L0L

[danpluso]

creature? It is a cardboard cutout add for a digitech pedal. The guitar player in the digitech ad is "Brian May" promoting what they call "Brian May's Red Special Pedal"

[mightyjake182]

no that's billy mays

jk

[trevornish000]

thainks

[lifedelay]

those noise gates work pretty good

[esprite101]

My bridge humbucker gives nice feedback but neck single pickup screams like bitch too xD

[Argug1]

then play only with the neck pickup =)

[killakid443]

get longer shorts!

[andrenogueira775]

hey guys. I have a Les Paul copy and when i put some more gain on my guitar it screams like a fucking bitch! any tips? it is nothing related do the amp

[JakeX01]

i want to know how to get feedback with about a quarter gain

[BOTFA111]

try a hollow-body guitar. they scream like a bitch with some gain.

[simonbnyc]

Am I missing something? Why would anyone want to get RID of feedback?

[bandit7498]

@simonbnyc lol. I know, right? Actually if you're playing something with a ton of gain like Pantera or early Metallica, but there's also some stops or rests that the feed back would bleed into, you'd want a noise gate. Dime used a noise gate for that very reason. But during his leads he would turn it off to let the guitar sustain as much as possible. The trick is not stopping feedback all together, but learning to control it. Watch Steve Vai do it. He's awesome with feedback effects.

[Metzgerei]

@simonbnyc yea I think the trouble is usually trying to control it like other bands seem to flawlessly do in their songs

[FallofDarkness55]

@simonbnyc i agree. feedback can be cool if it's manipulated properly. an example is the intro of 'her portrait in black' by atreyu. they have some cool feedback in the intro before they start playing.

[nickfromdtown1992]

@simonbnyc god i have no fucking clue.

[keyblade09]

I have a line 6 spider 3 150 watts, that amp is so loud,, i set to 12 o'clock,, it is heard in the whole neighborhood,, ahahha, i love making feedbacks!! but my big bro doesnt like it..

[peachy901]

I have the same amp! the loudest ive EVER had it is 12.5/1 o'clock and i nearly died!

[billyfreeka]

wow this fender is so fucking hot

[ewif]

i just have my clean volume on 0, so i click the clean switch on my foot pedal when i wanna silence. works really well

[laggin21]

damn lol i use EMG type pick ups lol but i sound clean but i want to be clean as Michael Angelo Batio =P

[benhoward1]

would a clean up noise suppressor help?

[metalkidmike666]

yes

[gitarmats]

Noise gate???

[adrianvdb]

is for snobs

[Xmolenex]

just get some seymour duncans, that worked for me:) also some amps have noise gates.

[BloodyPaperclip]

im gona call you Brutal Bill

[remi0401]

Isn't a feedback destroyer like the behringer FBQ feedback destroyer way more easy?

[Crio2c5]

thanx

[ItsTheQuigley]

Well, what i do is i use a Gibson SG and it has a 3 way pickup selector. So i turn the volume right the way down and then when ive finished playing for a bit i just flick the switch

[superball94]

all or nothin' amen brother

[Trustpt]

This is really being annoying me... I did everything he suggests (except that pedal thing) and I still get feedback, even when I'm miles away from the amp. Also, if I turn the volume down in my Stratocaster (supposing I'm in full gain) it'll have less clean sound and more feedback. Is it normal? Turning the volume down and instead of getting less clean sound and less feedback I get less clean sound plus MORE FEEDBACK?

Thank You.

[DonQuixotec]

Feedback shouldn't really be THAT problematic. Maybe you should try your guitar on another amp, cause I think there may be something wrong with your amp dude.

Just call your local music store and ask them. Maybe you need better guitar cable. Noise guard or something. It could be a lot of stuff.

And seriously, the guy in the video and a lot of other people has a lot of noise when they just turn on the amp, I don't get that. Is all fender amps that way? :S

[polishmetalhead]

what about active pickups like emg's??

[johnnylawrason]

usually closed coil pickups are noise rejecting

[AidenTheBrave]

can u use a normal pedal like this dude is using AND a wah-wah pedal? like at the same time? coz most the songs i like to play have distorted parts, clean parts and a little jammin with the wah-wah

[megajames3000]

if u got fast feet

[AidenTheBrave]

lol cheers

[dhansen420]

@AidenTheBrave yeah just put your pedals infront of your noisegat/ volume pedal because some pedals create noise

[electrikhalo16]

what exact amp is it?

[Undertaker29794]

Fender Princeton 650. I also play it, but only use the Clean channel an boost it with a Boss ME50(I love it). Dont like the Princeton's distortion

[god399]

hmm... On my amp there's no gain. There's only Drive, Master, Bass, Mid, Treble and Reverb. Is it impossible for me to get feedback? (I have a "Laney LG20R")

[Ravenite1]

I think drive is your gain, if your amp has a distortion setting without some kind of gain control, then somethings fucked up about that amp...

[megajames3000]

drive gives you distoryion,right then it's it's gain

[Undertaker29794]

Im sure, the DRIVE is your GAIN. The Princeton (used in this vid) hasnt got a GAIN either, only a DRIVE.