Vibesware GR-1, User Manual

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2.2 On Stage
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Perfect for controllable and always reproducible feedback on stage.
Independent from monitor settings and amplifier gain. This makes same
results possible on large and small stages. Even if using head sets
instead of stage monitors.
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There is no need to turn away from the audience to your amplifier for
getting feedback. Simply move the neck to the Resonator for feedback.
You can also fix the Resonator together with a microfon on a stand.
Even extensive feedback actions are always possible facing to the
audience.
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If you plug your guitar directely into the PA, feedback from the monitor
never sounds so warm and rich like the feedback from the guitar
speaker. With the Guitar Resonator you will always get the same good
sound, even in this configuration.
2.3 New ways of playing
With a little practice, you will explore many new ways of feedback playing:
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Lead notes passing into feedback harmonics at once are making the
playing much more powerful. It sounds very agile if tones are passing
well directed into feedback while bending strings. During sustained
feedback the harmonics can be changed by moving the Resonator to
another neck position. This exact control is pure fun and cannot be
reached with normal Amplifier feedback at all. Its eigher a matter of lack
to get the desired harmonics or the feedback is quite out of control in
case of high distortion sounds or extensive sound volumen. This is
probably one of the reasons, why predefined feedback tones are rarely
embedded in lead compositions. In most cases, the lead is too short to
wait for the feedback.
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Feedback tones create a more atmospheric playing. Some bad guys
suggest it as the most effective therapy for „always speed players“.
Following the less is more principle, sustaining notes with vibrato and
variations of harmonics form important points of rest between speed
phrases. Just these points of rest are giving the most freedom for
impressiveness using feedback together with vibrato, bending and of
course the tremolo !
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