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Balloons should work like tape, maybe better, if they're directly under the f holes. But I've never needed to try it, so I can't say from personal experience. I've never used tape, either, just speculating.
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08-16-2019 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
I've also used the bottom of sandals and cut out a shape with a fine saw. Not as elegant as Doug's plugs though.
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Just fill the git with this... :-)
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The interior of my ‘68 GJS was completely stuffed full of furniture style foam rubber when I got it. Pulling it all out through the f holes was not a quick or easy process.
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i've never worried about weakening the adhesive. My son had packing tape on the F-Holes of his '91 Gibson ES-165 for over 6 months. When we took the tape off, it left residue on the finish which wiped clean after wiping off with a cloth with naptha on it. No finish damage.
Don't be afraid of tape, lol.
Again, i will say that I've used plugs and they don't work as well as tape for some reason. Bollenback mentioned the same thing to me. He always used packing tape on his nitro-finished guitars. Benson has also always used packing tape and rodney jones uses it as well.
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Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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Originally Posted by Jonathan0996
I suggest for anyone considering this
just stuffing the upper bout first and try it out on a gig .....
(one bout was enough for me)
and you won't be anywhere near the wiring
Apart from reducing the propensity to feedback to almost nothing
It also made the guitar less bright and with a shorter decay
(which I happen to like ....)
good luck
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Not on my L5! Maybe on a Poly finish.
I have stuffed guitars, had to! A '68 Guild ST 302 that howled like nothing else, and we were playing rock, in large clubs. That did it.
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How about something like this?
Oasis Guitar Armor, Static Cling Finish Protector OH-12
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Originally Posted by Moonray
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Taping the holes keeps air from freely moving in and out of the guitar body. The top can still vibrate.
At some frequencies where the net air volume does not change much (part of the top moves up while another part moves down) the tape does almost nothing.
At the moaning frequencies that we associate with acoustic feedback, the air volume changes significantly.
The tape causes the air in the guitar to be compressed and expanded - rather than simply moving in and out through the f-holes. The air somewhat resists this expansion and compression, thus the feedback damping.
The extent to which plugs will not seal as well as tape will reduce the effectiveness of the plugs in this regard.
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On the other hand, plugs add more mass than tape, but this can be less effective than sealing the air chamber in terms of damping feedback.
In my opinion.
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randy johnston uses rubber plugs. He says they work the best. I may try making my own
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I use heavy vinyl clear tapr on my archtops with heavy Poly finishes . These are working guitars. Guild x-150d Ibanez ag95 Conti, Peerlace monarch .To keep busy sometimes I have to play quite loud in fairly cramped spaces Recently retaped one after changeing a volume pot No damage to finish was visible Mickmac
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I know John McGlaughlin performed for quite some time with a Johnny Smith. I saw him playing this instrument with Joey DeFrancesco several years ago and this was a high volume performance. I never noticed him struggling w/ feedback. Does anyone know what he used to control feedback?
AlbertLast edited by AKA; 08-23-2019 at 09:00 PM. Reason: Add missing text
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Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
like once a year. The acoustic dampening effect was minimal and since I used that guitar in an electric band it didn't matter. It's non-invasive and cheap, just give it a try.
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Originally Posted by AKA
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Originally Posted by jzucker
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Originally Posted by jzucker
Albert
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Originally Posted by Easy2grasp
The Unwritten Theory of Guitar Harmolodics
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