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Acoustic Bass Feedback!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#21
You can't buy a better acoustic bass than this. Dean Exotica. Sounds better than anything I've ever owned... Jazz, Precision, Thunderbird, etc.
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Aphex circuitry with Aural Exciter and Big Bottom sound, phase switch, too...D'Addario black tapewounds.
Everyone talks about trying to find something to get a good upright sound...I don't have to look, I've already found it.
With a Planet Waves sound hole plug, no feedback, and I pretty much sit right on top of my amp at my local coffee house for open mic night.
I had one in with the natural finish and just bought one in blue.
I can't say enough about the tone.
 
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dsteinschneider said:
Sorry for thread resurrection.

I originally searched the internet for anyone discussing how the Ferrington behaves in a band setting as volume increases and found nothing. Yesterday I looked up ABG feedback and found this thread. Good thing too, fretlessrock's story about purchasing a Ferrington used that was loaded with soft foam in the cavity answered my question.

I like the Ferrington for playing unamped and for "coffee house" situations. As it gets louder if first morphs into a fairly typical electric bass tone, especially if you play closer to the bridge. Any louder and the tone becomes a mix of the normal sound and what I call pre feedback tone layered over it.

I'm going to start testing semi hollow body basses to find one that has some of that woody, shades of upright sound yet punches through the mix.
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I don't see why anyone should ever apologize for a thread resurrection. That's why they are here. I enjoy reading the older threads and I think we all learn more buy reaching back into the past. Not only do we pick up bits of knowledge - but for me that knowledge more often that not translates into a fresh perspective about the present thinking.

I would much prefer an older thread being rekindled than starting thread after thread on the exact same topic any day.

Just my two cents.

Never any need to apologize at all as far as I am concerned....
 
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Played the Ferrington last night at the event. The event, Rocktoberfest, provided the new Ampeg BA-115v2 which sounded great. We were pretty loud but the bass sounded fine. I didn't stuff the body with foam, probably would have if I had enough, but I think the leather/foam soundhole cover helped.
 
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Zombie thread, I know. OP must have got his/her answer, I get it.
Whatever.

Should anyone be looking for tips about this issue, I've got two or three more (I should rather say they're expansions on ideas already thrown in above):
-a Planet Waves O-Port can replace a soundhole plug and it also lowers the resonant frequency of the body, vented cab-style, deepening the sound. It might be enough to solve your feedback problem, it might not, but worth trying at twenty bucks give or take;
-you might want to try the parametric eq route (pin-point the problem frequency and notch it down) but don't have one or don't feel like devoting your amp head's para mids to just that - in that case, get a cheap used single-band full-parametric equaliser Invalid Link Removed - they used to be popular with guitarists in the late Eighties;
-instead of foam, old underpants and such, get a party balloon, shove it inside the soundhole (secure it to somewhere in there), service it through the strings before amped practice/gigs - it will reduce the airspace inside the body and raise the resonance, hopefully to somewhere in the spectrum your strings, pickup or cabinet aren't terribly rich in.
 

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