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Talenless Just Startin' 64 posts since
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Oct 2, 2012 11:36 AM

Is there anyway to simulate feedback when using headphones?

the one thing i miss about a real tube amp with a real speaker is the musical feedback.

is there anyway to simulate this when using headphones?

  • meambobbo Iknowathingortwo 1,702 posts since
    Dec 13, 2007

    put a sustainiac in your guitar... that's about all i can think of - without something to physically drive the strings such as real feedback or a magnetic driver like the sustainiac you are forced to rely on effects to emulate it by using infinite feedback that typically sound like crap.

  • Iknowathingortwo 1,667 posts since
    Jul 17, 2007

    Talenless wrote:

     

    the one thing i miss about a real tube amp with a real speaker is the musical feedback.

    is there anyway to simulate this when using headphones?

    Way back in the old days when doing solos live with a band recording in my studio and what you want was needed, all I did was hook up another pair of headphones to the guitar output in the mix, and set it very close to the guitar player and amazingly, by putting the guitars pickups pointed towards the headphones you could get the same feedback as you would in front of an amp.  Even the position could cause different harmonic feedback top occur depending on how hot the signal gain was coming from the guitar and how loud the headphones were turned up.

     

    Perhaps you might give that a try.

     

    Take care,

    Neal

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