We had a nice gig last evening playing for a university function - but I learned a new lesson.
I was playing the new Gretsch hollowbody. The setup was such that we were in a corner of a ballroom, and in an alcove area set back a bit from the floor. my Amp was about a foot out from the wall, but there was also an alcove ceiling about 8' above the floor. I was standing almost directly in front of my amp. The floor and wall in back of the amp were both hard surfaces.
The result didn't show up in a quick sound check, but it did in performance. Every open E note I hit tried to bloom into a giant "Woof". I noticed it a bit with any note on the E, but it was worst with the open string. I had to be quick with the finger-muting and not try to sustain an open E.
Must have been a consequence of the amp placement, the acoustic bounce off the alcove, and playing a true hollowbody. It didn't create feedback, but I'm sure if we had been really loud it would have. Only the musicians and those who really knew our music could tell, but I checked and it definitely was audible to them.
So - I learned a little lesson about amp placement and standing in front of it, especially with a hollowbody. It wasn't a disaster, so I got off easy on that lesson.
Our guitarist plays Jack The Ripper with a hollowbody Gretsch, and he was right next to me. That number starts and ends with intentional feedback, but with the Twin Reverb he was using, he got considerably more than he expected. I ended up tweaking his amp volume down a notch for him during the number to mitigate the feedback.