To Each, a Purpose
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To add to what Larry & Herb, in particular, have said:
Plug an acoustic guitar into your electric amp and you'll be one disappointed rocker. Unless your 'acoustic' is a Taylor T5 (with its humbuckers), of course!
Herb used the word most often used to describe the electric amp's role in producing music: 'color.' To many guitarists, the tone that the electric amp adds to the music is relatively more important than the electric guitar itself.
A good acoustic amp (or PA) is often described as 'colorless.' You want the vocals or acoustic guitar's natural tonal characteristics to be reproduced accurately - nothing added; nothing taken away.
The corollary to this is that plugging your electric guitar into an acoustic amp will leave you cold, lifeless ...and without reason to go on!
I know some people who try to replace the need for an electric amp with by placing a distortion pedal in front of their acoustic amp (or a modeller like the VOX Tonelab or Line6 Pod). Again, you will be disappointed - a weak sister to the real thing.
To each thing, a purpose. And an excuse to buy more gear!
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