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Old 02-12-2013, 01:25 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by ashcat_lt View Post
My mother buys every "nifty gadget" she sees. Gave me a Boombox and I was like "WTF am I doing to do with this?" Then it hit me!
I MacGyvered something like this when I was a teenager (back in the 90s) and it worked amazingly well. I got a shitty 2" radio-shack speaker, wired it up to a practice amp output which I fed from my main amp's FX loop send. Then I used a little G-clamp & a piece of wood to clamp the speaker to my guitar's headstock.

The feedback is really nice and musical, because it's feeding the guitar's sound back into the wood to resonate, so it responds really nicely to whatever you're playing. Much the same as a really LOUD amp makes the guitar body/strings resonate. I assume that's the type of feedback you want, rather than the microphonic "eeeeeeeeeee" of speakers straight into pickups. (YUCK)

Naturally I thought I was a complete genius at the time. I had no idea you could buy these things off the shelf now. Off to ebay with me!
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