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hi. im in my room and i have a 100 watt marshall. I turn my amp and my distortion on at almost full blast. I dont get much feedback. But when im using a practice room I get major feedback. The room has sound proof walls.

Any ways I can reduce feedback? it starting to cause problems

Yea dog... It's called a volume knob. The idea of playing "full blast" is a personal preference. Not one used by real pros. Small room= feedback.

Power has nothing to do with volume. Willie Nelson is a powerful performer. I doubt he ever played through a Marshall at full volume. The power you play at is the emotional effect you have on your audience. You can have all the volume you want but if the audience isn't impressed it doesn't mean squat. Learn to impress your audience at the lowest volume possible. Then you'll have all the power you need...

Yep, you're going to either drop your volume on your amp or your gain on your distortion and if you like your sound with distortion, it'll be the amp volume. Every room is going to be different. Just because a room is soundproof doesn't mean it makes your amp sound better. Evidently, your room at home has walls and objects that absorb a lot of the sound and disperses the rest in a way that helps your sound. The practice room, being soundproof, is probably more rigid and instead of absorbing and dispersing the sound, is making it direct itself back towards you and your guitar pickups, thus creating more of a feedback loop. If you're deadset on playing loud and killing your ears (I know, I was young once), maybe hang some blankets on the walls.
Marshall had an ad on the back of Guitar World magazine a few years ago that said it all. It had a picture of a hand grenade and the caption read, "Just because it's loud, doesn't mean that it sounds good."

Feedback is a big part of my technique, but it's something to be tightly controlled. Try pointing your cabinet in a different direction, and use foot pedals to control your gain and distortion if possible. Every room is different so play with the EQ on the amp.

fisherman bob wrote:Power has nothing to do with volume. Willie Nelson is a powerful performer. I doubt he ever played through a Marshall at full volume. The power you play at is the emotional effect you have on your audience. You can have all the volume you want but if the audience isn't impressed it doesn't mean squat. Learn to impress your audience at the lowest volume possible. Then you'll have all the power you need...

Very Well Said Bob. now that's advise!


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feedback is fun to play with, I miss my old apartment, the so called bedroom that we used as a nursery/practice room for me had studio like acoustics it was awesome, this one song I played I had my amp cranked so I'd get feedback but I didn't proof it before recording it and ended up regretting it, just need to turn down the distortion a touch, but the tone was right so I didn't really care it was part of a two piece song, and feeding back delay is really fun and yah, you shouldn't practice at concert volumes, your ears are only right once and amps ain't cheap unless you money is disposable, in which case why the 100 watt amp? my 15 watts of bass power can make as much noise and still have that $10000 wal type sound