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Will this thing feedback in this day and age?
- Thread starter mankybass
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- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
A true hollow-body electric bass will feedback on stage depending on your proximity to your amp and volume. It can be done but needs to be considered/managed.
ANY bass will feed back under the right circumstances. Hollowbodies are more susceptible to this phenomenon than solid bodies, especially at high volumes. If you stand right in front of your speaker with everything cranked to 11, there's a good chance this bass will feed back. Feedback is (usually) pretty easy to deal with: just move/turn away from the amp.
The block of wood under the bridge is there for structural integrity. It does very little to combat feedback.
That being said, unless you're trying to fill a huge space with a single huge amp/cab, there's a pretty good chance feedback will not be a significant issue.
It reduces it but it doesn't make it go away. I can get my violin basses to feedback if I turn them up loud enough and they have no f-holes. One has a block of wood under it but one doesn't, and they'll both feed back if they're loud enough. I kind of like it
Would going direct to a PA system mitigate it by any chance?
All things being equal, no. Laws of physics apply the same to bass amps as they do to PA speakers.
Yes, and no. It's more dependent on where your bass in relation to the speaker your bass is emanating from. Usually, when going DI, feedback is not an issue, but it can be.
