electric guitar + pedal into acoustic amp?

[ayavner]

Hi there,

First off, the search function is only returning a blank page for me, so apologies if this has already come up in the past.

Is there any real reason why one couldn't use an acoustic guitar amp (in my case, Behringer ACX900) with an electric guitar and wahtever pedals?

Since the amp would more or less be a "clean" sound, would it make sense to just get a multieffects pedal or tube screamer, whatever, to put in-line with an electric guitar?

Or is it that the signal from the electric rig might be too high for an acoustic amp to work with?

I know there must be a reason, at least I hope so, because I really have my eye on the Vox AD30VT!!

[ohwell]

you'd just want to run it with some type of cabinet simulator which is built in to most multi effects units. If you're just using a bunch of standard stomp boxes into an acoustic amp it probably isn't going to sound very good, unless you're going for a very clean sound.

[Seagull Lover]

You will need a pedal with an amp and speaker modeling. I have been using an Digitech RP250 and an RP100 before that every since I have been playing electric. I have plugged those into a keyboard amp which would have similar results to plugging into an acoustic amp. Another option, if you want to use separate effects pedals, would be to use one of the Tech 21 Character series pedals.