Dark Lord Feedback issues

[Luke Duke]

Hey guys I'm having feedback issues (not harmonic, but microphonic) with my Dark Lord on the middle/bridge and bridge positions. I was wondering if this was normal? I know the single coil is made of "unusual" for a single coil, bobbin material and wondered if that was part of the issue. The bridge...I'm not sure, it just howls like mad and I'm not using tons of gain just a good bit of volume and boosts. I've heard that if a cover rattles the best medicine is to tear it down, put a piece of t-shirt between the slugs and pup cover, and slap it back together.

Thanks in advance!

Luke

 

[Tollywood]

Hello Luke,

I play my Dark Lord with extremely high gain, and I have never had that problem. I hope this helps!

Good Luck,
Bryan

 

[beej]

Yeah, sounds like your bridge p'up could be microphonic. Worth a call to customer service to see about a replacement.

 

[guitarp77]

Hello Luke,

I play my Dark Lord with extremely high gain, and I have never had that problem. I hope this helps!

Good Luck,
Bryan

Same here...

 

[Luke Duke]

Thanks fellas,

I called EBMM this afternoon and talked to Jacob, I believe. He told me it sounded like I had a microphonic pup, maybe two. He said I could send it in and they'd take care of it, of course I pay shipping one way...to which I responded I could put in the pup and he said they could do that too, but I'd send in mine first. Then I remembered I'll be at NAMM in 2 weeks so I asked if I could come by the booth and drop it off. He said he had to check with the guy running the booth but figured it wouldn't be an issue. I was planning on going by anyhow and now I have a REAL excuse! lol

Anyhow, great customer service!

Luke

 

[Tollywood]

I just noticed that both of your ebmms have the same birthday...very cool!

 

[joe web]

sometimes i get a feedback with the Y2Ds but this is only with highgain and a lot of volume at the room. normally they are quite guitars.

 

[Luke Duke]

Let me tell you guys what I'm running and you can tell me if I'm not explaining this well. I'm running between one of two rigs.

Guitar>board usually with a MXR GT-OD on>a wide panel tweed pro with trem head or a hotrodded Marshall 2204 making a little less gain than a JCM900

Either amp I'm getting the squealing but more readily with the Marshall due to the gain I'm guessing.

Luke