Hey guys! :)

I would like to ask you how do you record feedback? It is really easy onstage to get feedback, but is there a way to get it out at home without being thrown out by the neighbours? I mean a quiter way :)

Without using extra hardware to create your feedback (like a Boss pedal, forget its name, or a Fernandes Sustainor or an eBow) you need to think about how feedback is created...

The signal coming out of your speaker(s) is picked up by your pickup(s), sent back into the amp and back out of the speaker(s) and back into the pickup(s) in an endless loop... your pickup(s) are feeding-back the signal coming from the speaker(s).

To get it at a low level get your pickups as close to the speaker as you can so you don't need so much volume for the signal to get back to the pickups. Experiment with your position too. Some sound waves are output by the vibrating speaker cabinet itself, and some vibrations get into your pickups through physical contact with the guitar. I've had some pretty good results by touching the speaker cab with the headstock of the guitar.

HTH - Good luck! Let us know how you get on! :)

Thanks Phry. Well I have a pretty good idea 'bout the feedback, but the problem is my little amp, that at high volume levels creates much more brumm than it does feedback, so while I am trying to record it, the noise just gets awfull while the screaming part sounds more or less 'in the back', if you get what I mean. So I was wondering if there was another way... But I will try this one again, as I haven't tried it in a while...

Any decent audio editor can make a kind of "fingerprint" of undesired noise and then remove that fingerprint from a recording...

example...

sometimes my pedal chain makes a really annoying hum, but my sound is decent. I can record me *not* playing (ie just the hum) and save that as a fingerprint. Then I can record whatever I'm working on (which has the annoying hum in it too) and then apply the "fingerprint removal". The end result is a really nicely recorded track.

That might help you recording your feedback even though your amp makes a "brumm"!

I know that Cool Edit has this fingerprint capability, and Sound Forge probably does too. Don't know about other programs though.

Does that potentially help...?

^_^ Yeah I didn't think about that one.
I use Adobe Audition and there it is called 'Noise Reduction' and 'capture noise reduction profile' respectively but it is not that good. Is the Cool edit feature that good that removes all of the hum?
I should get it then....-

Well 10x a lot! I am gonna experiment these days and will probably post the result :)

Happy New Year
^_^

Yep! It's called a Noise Profile in Cool Edit too. It's really amazing! :)

Does more bass create feedback cos of it causing more vibrations?