Unwanted feedback coming from my Recto
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ibanez4life SZ!
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How close are you to the amp, and how load are you playing it? Boosting? What guitar and pickups?
I play my Roadster cranked with gain at 3 o'clock, and it only feedbacks when I want it to.
Eric
I play my Roadster cranked with gain at 3 o'clock, and it only feedbacks when I want it to.
Eric
Heritage Softail
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....another string of why my amp is jacked up posts. The couple week break was nice.
It seems the biggest reason for noise and unwanted feedback is from sloppy playing and ignorance in the gear being used.
Without a boost on my DR, I dont get feedback unless I let it sustain out. But for quick stop and go riffs, its quiet. Now when the amp is boosted, if I stop playing, its going to have tons of feedback, unless im in another room, and the guitar is pretty isolated from the amp.
This is how I like it though, cause I can gate the signal with my volume knob, so even when its boosted, I can still do the stop-go djenty stuff, or let it fully sustain and feedback like crazy when I need it to.
Id test your guitar first. Try a heavy gating setting and see if that stops it. If it does, then its your guitar, playing, or boosting that is causing the feedback. You can also have nothing plugged into your amp, then turn your gain and volume up. Cause nothing is plugged into it, you shouldnt have any feedback, but if you do get some squealing feedback noise, id have the amp looked at.
Without a boost on my DR, I dont get feedback unless I let it sustain out. But for quick stop and go riffs, its quiet. Now when the amp is boosted, if I stop playing, its going to have tons of feedback, unless im in another room, and the guitar is pretty isolated from the amp.
This is how I like it though, cause I can gate the signal with my volume knob, so even when its boosted, I can still do the stop-go djenty stuff, or let it fully sustain and feedback like crazy when I need it to.
Id test your guitar first. Try a heavy gating setting and see if that stops it. If it does, then its your guitar, playing, or boosting that is causing the feedback. You can also have nothing plugged into your amp, then turn your gain and volume up. Cause nothing is plugged into it, you shouldnt have any feedback, but if you do get some squealing feedback noise, id have the amp looked at.
fluff191
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Heritage Softail said:
It was nice indeed. Like a mini vacation almost.
mikey383
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Heritage Softail said:
Where's that facepalm smiley when you need it? Wait...this one will do: :roll:
I've never heard of anyone having so many problems with their Recto.
Swap tubes, make sure it's not your guitar's pickups by using a different guitar, stand away from the amp, etc.
I run high output pickups that aren't wax potted, with my gain around 2-3, with a boost, at fairly loud volumes, and the only time I get feedback is when I'm standing right in front of the amp.
RectoStudioGuy
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Are you serious? I am begining to think that maybe the Recto isn't for you. Perhaps a nice salesman somewhere can interest you in....say a Line Six, or something in that genre.
mikey383
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RectoStudioGuy said:
+1
bermuda_, you have 250+ posts, most of which are complaining about your Recto. That should say something.
in case this is a serious question I'll answer . You may be new to amps and playing loud
Any amp loaded with gain will feedback once it gets over a certain level if you let it. Part of playing loud and distorted is using the feedback and controlling it .Thats why its fun to play loud , not just that its loud but you can work the feedback and get infinate sustain . The soundwaves from the speakers keep the strings vibrating.
It shouldnt feedback if you keep the strings muted unless you got a ***** load of gain . In the studio my DR will feedback if I let it but its a very easy amp to control feedback IMHO. Any boosts in front will make it more prone to feedback though
Any amp loaded with gain will feedback once it gets over a certain level if you let it. Part of playing loud and distorted is using the feedback and controlling it .Thats why its fun to play loud , not just that its loud but you can work the feedback and get infinate sustain . The soundwaves from the speakers keep the strings vibrating.
It shouldnt feedback if you keep the strings muted unless you got a ***** load of gain . In the studio my DR will feedback if I let it but its a very easy amp to control feedback IMHO. Any boosts in front will make it more prone to feedback though
Heritage Softail
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I think all these posts are just a way to get attention.
It's sad, tragic, seeing a good amp going waste like this. There should a Boogie Protection Alliance. Kinda like those 'save the kittens' commercials Sara McLaughlin does. We have "Save the Whales", we need "Save the Boogies" or the "Rectifier Reclamation League". Oh the humanity, oh the rectifiers!!!
We need a way to protect good amps from abuse at the hands of some total DB....
It's sad, tragic, seeing a good amp going waste like this. There should a Boogie Protection Alliance. Kinda like those 'save the kittens' commercials Sara McLaughlin does. We have "Save the Whales", we need "Save the Boogies" or the "Rectifier Reclamation League". Oh the humanity, oh the rectifiers!!!
We need a way to protect good amps from abuse at the hands of some total DB....
fluff191
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bermuda_ said:
mikey383
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fluff191 said:
There it is!!!!
I just want to scream "FU$K" when I see burmuda_ post a thread.
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bermuda_ said:
Hmmm, with exact same gain and master volume levels??? (and similar tone levels?)
maybe A... you actually DO have an issue with ch3
or B...
Heritage Softail said:
or C...
you really need to sell this amp, and buy a solid state amp! :lol:
Turumbar82
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bermuda_ you remind me a guy a I know. He is in complete denial about everything and can't take a hint at all.
How long have you been playing? How many hours a day do you play/practice?
How long have you been playing? How many hours a day do you play/practice?
I'm not creating these posts as a way of getting attention, I'm really conceived that there actually is something wrong with my amp, It seems that no matter how loud I crank the volume up on the amp, it still sounds muddy sounding, regardless of where the EQ settings have been adjusted, even with presence knob up higher on the amp, I found that didn't do much to help the situation.
The best way I can describe how my amp sounds is, it sounds as if someone has put a blanket over it, or the amp has been submerged under the water.
Now when it comes to how much gain my amp actually has, lets just say that even with the gain knob on the amp turned up to 3 o'clock it still doesn't provide me with enough gain for playing metal, now having said that when the gain knob is turned this high on the amp it does sound overdriven, but not distorted by any means.
Also after listening to various clips of people playing Recto's on youtube, they all sound completely different to how mine sounds, at least their Recto's sounds like how tube amps should sound, unlike my amp which sounds like a muddy flabby Constipated sounding piece of crap, also I would like to point out that when I'm playing the clean channel on the amp, it still sounds muddy, when I turned the volume knob up on the amp channel.
So really by turning the volume up on the amp, all it really does is make the amp louder in volume and introduces more bass to the amp signal, which really isn't necessary
The best way I can describe how my amp sounds is, it sounds as if someone has put a blanket over it, or the amp has been submerged under the water.
Now when it comes to how much gain my amp actually has, lets just say that even with the gain knob on the amp turned up to 3 o'clock it still doesn't provide me with enough gain for playing metal, now having said that when the gain knob is turned this high on the amp it does sound overdriven, but not distorted by any means.
Also after listening to various clips of people playing Recto's on youtube, they all sound completely different to how mine sounds, at least their Recto's sounds like how tube amps should sound, unlike my amp which sounds like a muddy flabby Constipated sounding piece of crap, also I would like to point out that when I'm playing the clean channel on the amp, it still sounds muddy, when I turned the volume knob up on the amp channel.
So really by turning the volume up on the amp, all it really does is make the amp louder in volume and introduces more bass to the amp signal, which really isn't necessary
Turumbar82
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bermuda_ said:
you mean you are convinced there is something wrong with your amp. Conceived is a whole different other concept.
Take your amp to a repair place then. See what they say!
Are you actually using only youtube for comparisons on how your amp should sound? Youtube sound quality is horrible.
How do you know how a tube amp should sound???? Have you ever owned a nicer tube amp ever before?
How many other tube amps did you try out before you got a Recto? Why did you buy a Recto? What drove you to get the amp? Obviously not because you love the sound of it. It seems like you bought the amp sight unseen because of someone else's opinion or because someone famous you like uses one.
bermuda_ said:
I remember reading that you also play in drop A tuning with below average pickups. No wonder your sound is muddy. Drop A? Not only will drop A sound muddy on any amplifier, but it'll sound god-awful on an amplifier that isn't incredibly tight to begin with.
Also, metal tone isn't all about gain. When you say it "doesn't provide enough gain to play metal" all that means to me is "I need a lot of gain to cover up my ****** playing." A good guitarist would be able to play metal with the gain on 3 o'clock (and even lower with reasonably high output pickups. I can pull off sick metal tones with the gain at noon on my Les Paul).
Honestly dude, I get the feeling that you're some kid whose parents bought him a recto, and you're trying to convince yourself to like it because they won't let you get anything else/you can't sell it because they'd lose money and get angry/whatever. Any other guitarist would have sold the amplifier a long time ago if they'd been having the same difficulties in getting a good tone. If I'm wrong and it's actually YOU trying to convince yourself for no real good reasons, then I have even less faith in you.
You're convinced something is wrong with your amp. I'm convinced you're wrong and simply inexperienced.
I recently tuned my guitar back up to C Standard tuning, to cover some Akercocke songs, and I experienced the same result.
Also my brother played my amp last night, and he's a good guitarist and even he said the amp blows, so inexperience doesn't fully contribute to the cause of the problem, I truly do believe that there is a problem with my amp, there is no other explanation I can think of, I highly doubt that Recto's in general are supposed to sound like as if a blanket has been put over them.
Also my brother played my amp last night, and he's a good guitarist and even he said the amp blows, so inexperience doesn't fully contribute to the cause of the problem, I truly do believe that there is a problem with my amp, there is no other explanation I can think of, I highly doubt that Recto's in general are supposed to sound like as if a blanket has been put over them.
