I could use some help. First off, I’m primarily a hobbyist but last night I played an outdoor gig with my FM9, the first real gig at high volumes I’ve used it on.
I was running into issues, particularly with the 80’s hair metal set, where for me to have my guitar loud enough to be heard in the mix, my gain channels were giving me a lot of high pitch feedback at full volume.
I tried several guitars in case it was a microphonic pickup (I know that sound) and it happened with each guitar in all pickup locations.
In relation the the PA speakers, on my side of the stage there was one up on a stand to the right and slightly in front of me, and one down on the ground, straight in front of me. There was also a stage monitor, but that didn’t seem to impact it: on or off.
The only way I could get it to go away completely was to lower the amp gain to 3 or lower, but even that still had the problem of being too quiet. This was very disappointing, since that was way off of where I wanted to be tone wise for these songs.
The other guitarist was also using a modeler (NUX Amp Academy) and did not have this issue.
Any ideas of why it was so bad for me, or tips on reducing feedback without completely changing the tone? Thanks!
I was running into issues, particularly with the 80’s hair metal set, where for me to have my guitar loud enough to be heard in the mix, my gain channels were giving me a lot of high pitch feedback at full volume.
I tried several guitars in case it was a microphonic pickup (I know that sound) and it happened with each guitar in all pickup locations.
In relation the the PA speakers, on my side of the stage there was one up on a stand to the right and slightly in front of me, and one down on the ground, straight in front of me. There was also a stage monitor, but that didn’t seem to impact it: on or off.
The only way I could get it to go away completely was to lower the amp gain to 3 or lower, but even that still had the problem of being too quiet. This was very disappointing, since that was way off of where I wanted to be tone wise for these songs.
The other guitarist was also using a modeler (NUX Amp Academy) and did not have this issue.
Any ideas of why it was so bad for me, or tips on reducing feedback without completely changing the tone? Thanks!