Hollowbodies/Feedback interface

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Do huge hollow-body electrics have any advantage besides the ability to get 10,000 wonderful varieties of feedback? Conversely, are any solid-body models equally good for the same purpose? See, I want to do more feedback-related experiments but I hate dropping the pick into the body all the time

― dave q, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Hollow-bodies are awesome. The more resonant sound and deeper sustain applies to everything, not just feedback - though it is particularly useful there. What does your hollow-body look like? Does it have an acoustic-style sound hole? I never drop my pick inside the guitar. The only 'openings' are those squiggly things on the sides, like a jazz or rockabilly guitar.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

lord knows how ted nugent gets round the problem but he does. also he and his wife now have new comical hunting / cooking book out "kill it and grill it" ohohoho - they do!

― bob snoom, Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

sundar - if there is a hole even the tiniest bit bigger than a pick, I will drop the pick into it, like gravity

― dave q, Friday, 6 December 2002 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, the main thing you have to think about when you play a hollowbody is how you want to play the instrument. If you do not want crazy feedback you need to buy a Notch filter which will EQ out the resonate frequency of your guitar(which causes feedback.) A lot of acoustic guitar preamps have these.

The other way to go is to actually incorporate the feedback into your playing style. It used to drive me nuts when I would crank up my amp and it would squeal. Then I just accepted it, and started working with it. Now it is more like trying to control the direction and style of the feedback.

my rig is here: Ah fuck it, what do your guitars look like?

Another thing is whether or not you are playing a full hollow body or a semi-hollowbody. Semi-hollowbodies have a lot of the same characteristics but the feedback is not nearly as unruly.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 8 December 2002 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I actually only ever use it for stuff that incorporates feedback anyway.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 9 December 2002 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Hollow-body guitars get such a more round 'clean' sound than solid-bodies like strats & teles & whatnot. They're great for feaux-jazzy lead/melody stuff.

Distorted, they have a tendency to feedback more easily. Me likey.

Try singing into the soundholes of your hollow-body while the guitar is plugged in... =o)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Once I dropped a vibrator into the soundhole, it was really good but then you either have to fuck around to take it out or else let it buzz until the battery runs out which is really aggravating. Seriously tho, it's a bit dud going to the porno shop and buying one but if you're into silly things with soundholes/feedback/(slide even!) you can do some cool shit

― dave q, Thursday, 12 December 2002 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

John Peel played this track once that was a guitar played with a vibrator, it was an absolutely huge noise, awesome. Enough to consider buying one just to recreate it, but I was 14 at the time and thought that might take quite some explaining to my parents. So yeah, more of that = classic!

― Rebecca (reb), Friday, 13 December 2002 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

my semi is kind a compromise here. sounds perfectly inbetween the two extremes, although it would feedback a little better at lower volumes if it was completely hollow. still, when i step on my rat pedal, the notes jump right out.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 15 July 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

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