Question About Marshall Amps

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I have a Marshall MG30DFX, and I can't get any damn feedback out of the thing. I'm into making weird sounds and noises with my guitar, and I really need to experiment with feedback, but even though all of my levels are cranked up to 10 on my guitar and amp, it just won't give me any. Any suggestions (without using pedals)?

― Michael Roberts, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Get a graintable synth

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Any suggestions (without using pedals)

no. get one pedal.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

my rickenbacker/vox ac30 wouldn't feed back at any volume until there was some sort of distortion in there.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

get an MXR distortion+.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of modern solid-state amps pretty much will not feed back with solidbody guitars no matter how close you get.

Now a hollow-body or acoustic-electric, however, will feed back almost instantly.

Get a bigass tube-driven stack and things will be different. But I think what you want could be done with a garden-variety overdive pedal.

― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Good tube amp will feedback easily with an electric, even at lower volumes. As an added bonus, nothing sounds better than a cranked tube amp.

― Aramyr, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

But even the smallest commercial tube amps are loud at low volumes. I had the smallest Marshall combo and the volume past 2 or 3 was far too loud for an apartment.

I've heard of .5w and 1w tube amps, but they all look like custom jobs or from specialty shops.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I hear that, I had to sell my marshall tube amp because it was way too loud for playing-in-apartment purposes, but now I'm sad because nothing else I use sounds as good. Solution: play in an arena every night.

― Richard K (Richard K), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Or get one of them "power brake" attenuator thingies.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/15/151214.jpg

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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