How can I make the peeping noise.

[Jasper_e]

How can I make the peeping noise with a guitar. I dont know exactly how to describe it, it's the noise you often hear at the beginning of a song. It's like the sound when you keep your mic too close to the amp.

[Schecter_dude]

Try holding your guitar closer to the amp

[Jasper_e]

:) Isn't there another way?

[Schecter_dude]

I dunno... there might be an effect or something... if the volume's up quite loud and you hold the guitar near to the amp for a few seconds, it sould make the noise.

[Romotov]

that works just the way it works with the mic.

set gain and reverb to the max then go close to tha amp
you can make the effect come faster when u hit your guitar (not tha strings) with your hand.

[Andrew]

If you turn up the amp loud and move close to it, you will get microphonic feedback, but good pickups will not actually do this. :(There isnt really an effect to get this noise. The closest i can think of is to do a pinch harmonic

[Romotov]

i don't think it has something to do with the pickups. it's rather because the strings vibrate to the sound of the amp, so the whole thing gets louder, and then the strings vibrate more and so on....

when u put gain to the max the amp creates a louder noise even when the strings vibrate just a little.

[Jasper_e]

Thanks all for answering, i guess this means there is no better technique for it :(

:):) Jasper

[Andrew]

Romotov, the kind of feedback you are describing is normal feedback, the kind that guitarists are supposed to like. It doesnt really make a peeping noise. It makes the note swell, and last for longer. This type has nothing to do with the pickups. The kind that makes the peeping noise is microphonic feedback, where, if the pickup is not well made, the sound goes straight back into the pickups and makes an uncontrolled screeching or peeping noise.

[Romotov]

oops... i thought he talked about this kind of feedback...

i actually don't know what a peeping noise is (i'm not english-speaking)..

well, u are probably right.

but i have a crappy epiphone sg310 at home and i can get as close to the amp as i want and i don't get the effect described by u... hey maybe my guitar isn't as crappy as i thought....

[Andrew]

Actually, I dont know if 'peeping' is actually a real word. It just sort of sounds like it. I definitely wouldnt describe normal feedback as peeping. I dont know much about gear, dont know what a sg310 is.(like an SG?) It is only the pickups that matter though.

[Romotov]

a sg-310 looks like a gibson sg.
i think it's the cheapest sg-version.

[Slash]

Hey pal... There are a lot of feedback pedals out there....

[Jasper_e]

The must be another technique than holding the guitar close to the amp. I watched the smooth criminal clip and the guitarist slides his pick along the low E. I tried this too but it didn't work for me :(

[Andrew]

That's a pick scrape. It won't really give you feedback, I don't think. Play a few notes as well, in case you werent doing that already.

[Schecter_dude]

Are you wanting to do this during Smooth Criminal???

[Jasper_e]

No, it was just an example of a closeup of a guitarist doing it.

[Tony_Iommi]

pick scraping is fun. Try using a coin or something, if you want it to work better. i like doing that alot. hehe..

[Schecter_dude]

Or a sharkfin :D

[Jameseh]

from peeping noises to pick scrapes......hehe.....