Can someone explain "self oscillating" to me

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So I have the 101 and dig the sounds I get from it but yesterday “wife” asked me to explain what self-oscillating was and why it happened. I know how to get it but can’t explain what it is at all and so I realize my knowledge of what is really going on with the filter is limited.

Can someone clue me in so I can understand further? I’m not allowed to turn on the “one the makes all that noise” until I can explain it to her.

Thanks

Ezra

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Filter resonance is feedback. Like a microphone on a PA, if you turn the resonance up high enough the filter feedback turns into a “self oscillating” pitch.

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Thanks for the response.

That makes perfect sense.

Ezra