RamboMadCow
Inspired
So I'm hoping there are some very knowledgeable people here who can help me figure out the solution to this problem. I've been playing guitar for quite a long time, but I've not been in a live situation until recently.
First the setup: My rack is an ESP LTD Snakebyte (with the hot Hetfieldl EMG pickups), into a Shure wireless transmitter. The receiver is the GLXD4 rack unit. The GLXD then goes into the Axe FX 3. From the Axe, I send output 1 to a Matrix GT1600FX. From there, they're fed into 2 Matrix 212 FR cabinets. I also have output 2 being sent to a splitter, which goes to our mixer board for IEMs and out to FOH PA systems.
In my rehearsal space with my band, we have a concrete floor and I'm within 10 feet of my rack setup. I had some feedback at that time, so I added a gate, and at the default settings all feedback went away. My gain on the GLXD is incredibly low, almost at its lowest.
Over the weekend, my Metallica tribute band (so...very high gain) played our first show at a venue. It didn't matter how far away I tried to walk away from my rack and speakers, there was that terrible feedback squeal. I turned my power amp down to almost completely inaudible (so we lost stage sound sadly) but even at low levels the feedback was present. I did my best to try and control it while we were performing, but the old school Metallica riffs have a lot of "pause for 2 seconds then play", so a lot of times I didn't have time to turn the nob down, and you can definitely hear the feedback. The venue had a carpeted stage as well.
Does anyone have experience with this and have any ideas on what I could do in the future to stop this? It was so puzzling for me because normally concrete floors are a culprit to feedback, and the venue had carpeted ones, and my rehearsal space is concrete with 0 feedback. But we also don't have all the stage monitors that this venue had. My band is looking to slowly increase when and where we play, and I'd love to find a solution to this so that we come across as more professional and a proper Metallica tribute.
First the setup: My rack is an ESP LTD Snakebyte (with the hot Hetfieldl EMG pickups), into a Shure wireless transmitter. The receiver is the GLXD4 rack unit. The GLXD then goes into the Axe FX 3. From the Axe, I send output 1 to a Matrix GT1600FX. From there, they're fed into 2 Matrix 212 FR cabinets. I also have output 2 being sent to a splitter, which goes to our mixer board for IEMs and out to FOH PA systems.
In my rehearsal space with my band, we have a concrete floor and I'm within 10 feet of my rack setup. I had some feedback at that time, so I added a gate, and at the default settings all feedback went away. My gain on the GLXD is incredibly low, almost at its lowest.
Over the weekend, my Metallica tribute band (so...very high gain) played our first show at a venue. It didn't matter how far away I tried to walk away from my rack and speakers, there was that terrible feedback squeal. I turned my power amp down to almost completely inaudible (so we lost stage sound sadly) but even at low levels the feedback was present. I did my best to try and control it while we were performing, but the old school Metallica riffs have a lot of "pause for 2 seconds then play", so a lot of times I didn't have time to turn the nob down, and you can definitely hear the feedback. The venue had a carpeted stage as well.
Does anyone have experience with this and have any ideas on what I could do in the future to stop this? It was so puzzling for me because normally concrete floors are a culprit to feedback, and the venue had carpeted ones, and my rehearsal space is concrete with 0 feedback. But we also don't have all the stage monitors that this venue had. My band is looking to slowly increase when and where we play, and I'd love to find a solution to this so that we come across as more professional and a proper Metallica tribute.