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What type amp for a Taylor T-5?
"Hybird" guitar....acoustic amp or tube amp for electric guitar?
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His nic' name here is: dcopper (use that to PM him). All the best! Will PS - I oftentimes use two amps with my T5 - one is acoustic, the other pure electric, and I use an A/B/Y switch to split the output signal and send it to both amps.
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when I went to a Taylor Road show and Marc Seal did his song on the T5 that Q was asked. He said TUBE really brings outt he best in the guitar.
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I've had my T-5 since they came out... I like it a lot, but have not heard a good "acoustic" sound from it (other than unplugged!). I prefer the electric-y sounds... and I actually like it much more through my solid-state Yamaha amp than my vintage Deluxe Reverb; the mids get out of hand pretty qiuick through the DR and I get some feedback. Through the Yamaha, it sounds SO good; clean and perfectly intonated, all over the neck...
So, there's my opinion!
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With a hybrid I think you have two choices, one run a processor for the electric and take it to your acoustic amp: or you can have two different amps. I have done both and each works. I have just recently purchased a great tube amp, Mesa Boogie TA-15 and I am now running the electric side into the tube amp and the acoustic side into a acoustic amp. This is the best I think if you can afford it and want to set up to systems. Most hybrids have the ability for two leads from the guitar separating the acoustic and the electric. The T5 I believe does not do this so you would have to have some sort of A-B switch to go between. This is my first experience with a tube amp on the electric side and it is a huge plus.
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Any kind of good all tube Fender amp is GREAT...but you need to change out the speaker. The problem with most "electric" guitar speakers is a pronounced upper midrange( around 1500hz to 2000hz) peak. This brings out the "in your face" electric guitar personality....
I HIGHLY recommend an Eminence Beta 12LTa. This is a "hifi" cone, with a whizzer attached to the center. The frequency response pretty has that midband peak flattened out, and you get a great smooth tone for acoustic. It will also work VERY well for the "electric" side of the T5. |
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I'm considering getting a T-5 12 string and already have a 1968 vintage Ampeg J-12 tube amp that is very clean. I also have access to an 80's vintage Peavey Reno 400 (solid state, 15" speaker and piezo horn). Do I need to look for something else?
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I think you are talking about two electric amps. That will be find for the electric but the acoustic will not be the best. Depends on what you want. If you want one amp it is probably better to have an acoustic and then run a modeler for the electric. The best is two different amps, that is what I finally have done. For the processor I used to use I didn't really have the best, I used a Yamaha DG stomp, pretty old but worked for what I was doing. I was either going to by a $500 processor like the Line 6 pod hd 500 but I ended up spending my money on a tube amp. Very happy I did.
Steve
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