Lord-of-the-strings Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 Out of curiosity, would there be any way to induce feedback from my pickups with a magnet of sorts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 Sort of. That's sort of what an E-Bow does. Another way of doing it is to rout some of your audio to a small speaker aimed directly at the strings. This causes the strings to feed back, though, not the pickups themselves. If your pickups are feeding back, it's a god-awful screech that you don't want any part of. OR Just stand in front of your amp when it's turned up to high volume. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=7512 http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=16984 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kith Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 stand near your amp, with lots of distortion, and tap the back of the neck behind the 3rd fret without covering the strings. wait a few seconds. try a coulple times if it doesnt work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezerboy Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 touch your headstock onto a corner of your amp. rawr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin martinez Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 well just to agree with lovecraft go to the sustainer ideas topic, there's plenty of info about makin a magnetic kind of pickup that will move your strings driven by the guitar output signal thru a small amp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psw Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 Out of curiosity, would there be any way to induce feedback from my pickups with a magnet of sorts? Yes...an electro magnet... a magnetic kind of pickup that will move your strings driven by the guitar output signal thru a small amp like that! An ebow is the same thing that can be held in the hand and works on one string at a time. A magnet won't itself do anything except perhaps cause a damping of vibrations and strange harmonics by stopping some modes of vibrations ("wolftones") that can happen also when pickups (particularly strats) too close to the strings. Theoretically...if you had a magnet or series of alternate pole magnets and moved them across a string at exactly the right speed (frequency) for that note (faster than you could physically do by hand I'd say) you could make some kind of bow effect but it is not at all practical...and it wouldn't really be feedback but a kind of bowing device...just throwing that out there. Otherwise no...but feel free to join in on the sustainer ideas thread that is really about anything feedbacking or sustain (and possibly the best place, rather than the tutorial section for such questions ) ... pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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