CactusWren
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So I often perform in bad environments. I'm background, people are talking and eating and sometimes it gets very loud. Worse, I often need to play with my amp or PA within 2 or 3 feet of me. Here are a couple sample setups:
1. I sit and the guitar amp is right next to me on the ground.
2. Bose L1 is 4 feet behind me.
3. K10 on a pole is 4 feet to my left.
In all these situations, I get nasty feedback or resonance problems. My guitar is a nylon-stringed Cordoba; my ideal setting is using half piezo pickup and half interior mic. The goal is to retain that setting for sound.
There are two basic areas where I get problems. One is a low-mid frequency boom. A slow feedback might occur if I hold the note. More typically, it just resonates in that particular area and makes the sound unbalanced. The second occurs at the high C (8th fret, 1st string). When I play that note, it seems 2X as loud, ear-piercing. These two problems really give me problems and it's just no fun to play in these situations.
When I am able to get a reasonable distance and setup between me and the speakers, I do fine. But the reality is, I am often cramped.
The tools I currently own are: notch filter, phase switch, 3-band eq on the guitar; Zoom G3 which has mediocre graphic EQ and para EQ; mixers with 3-band EQ of various ability. Can these things be solved by tech?
1. I sit and the guitar amp is right next to me on the ground.
2. Bose L1 is 4 feet behind me.
3. K10 on a pole is 4 feet to my left.
In all these situations, I get nasty feedback or resonance problems. My guitar is a nylon-stringed Cordoba; my ideal setting is using half piezo pickup and half interior mic. The goal is to retain that setting for sound.
There are two basic areas where I get problems. One is a low-mid frequency boom. A slow feedback might occur if I hold the note. More typically, it just resonates in that particular area and makes the sound unbalanced. The second occurs at the high C (8th fret, 1st string). When I play that note, it seems 2X as loud, ear-piercing. These two problems really give me problems and it's just no fun to play in these situations.
When I am able to get a reasonable distance and setup between me and the speakers, I do fine. But the reality is, I am often cramped.
The tools I currently own are: notch filter, phase switch, 3-band eq on the guitar; Zoom G3 which has mediocre graphic EQ and para EQ; mixers with 3-band EQ of various ability. Can these things be solved by tech?