grogthecaveman

Originally posted by agedhorse Did you hear about the guy who left his accordian in the back of his locked car while he and his wife went to dinner? He came out from dinner to find that his car had been broken into... and now there were 5 accordians in the back seat! Works for banjos too. What's with all the hostility against accordions? They're nowhere near as bad as bagpipes But seriously, thanks for all the tips. I'm sure something someone suggested will help us out.

Originally posted by km_mcrc convince your accordion player that he needs one of these... http://www.roland.com/products/en/FR-7/ He has told me a few times he wants one of these, but he is in serious debt and ain't getting a damn thing for a long time. And I am not his sugar daddy.

This is a professionally installed job. The sound quality is great but the issues you mentioned are the big ones. the reeds will vibrate when they pickup sound from monitors as well. Also, the cavity will tend to resonate and cause feedback when excited by sound from outside the instrument. Would a lavalier mic or a mini PZM mic, if such a thing exists, be a good choice? i know nothing about their feedback sensitivity since i've only used them in video and studio situations. what about something like this? Would it be better or worse to send the output to more sources? We could DI it to the PA and run parallel into a bass amp for stage volume... So far I'm leaning towards the EQ or feedback squasher idea. afaik, the output on the accordion is unbalanced @ -10 db, with a volume knob. It worked well at a club when we DI'd it to the PA for FoH, but the monitors were causing the same feedback problem.

Originally posted by Ear Abuser Have you tried cutting the offending feedback frequency(s) with an equalizer? You could try a 31 band graphic or a parametric equalizer. There is also a Baggs acoustic guitar preamp that has a tunable notch filter that might help. Then again, this could a sign that you shouldn't try to amplify this particular instrument....... I like the idea of an EQ. Does anybody know anything about so-called Feedback Eliminators? Behringer makes a cheap one, and I hope that if I treat it very delicately it might last a year or two.... The accordion was invented and perfected well before the amplifier, but so was the acoustic guitar. The acoustic guitar is prone to feedback as well, but there have been huge improvements in the way of reinforcing its sound for live rock music. I am looking for something comparable for an instrument that is not quite as popular. Incidentally, I think the max I could spend is about $250 - $300, hopefully a whole lot less.

I am in a band with an accordion player. We're having a terrible time getting the accordion up to a good volume relative to the drums and electric guitar. Our drummer is not very loud - at practice I can almost hear myself sing without a PA (we do use a PA though). I can make my guitar amp as loud or as quiet as needed. The accordion has a built-in miking system with a 1/4" line-level output. It is terribly prone to feedback. I'm looking for a reliable way to amplify the accordion without feedback. Traditional close-miking is not really an option because we move around a whole lot. Is there a clip-on mic or pickup (or anything else) anyone can recommend that would work for this job? I have no problem with running the accordion into an amp or a PA - I just don't want the obscene amount of feedback that we've been trying to work around.