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11-20-2017, 08:42 AM
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Electric Guitar Amps for Acoustic Guitar
I know of some guitar players that use regular electric guitar amps to amplify their acoustic guitars (Jackson Browne, John Leventhal). How about the folks here on the forum? I love the Fender Blues Junior and I have a 64 Fender Champ that does pretty well. I am interested to hear of any others out there.
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11-20-2017, 09:40 AM
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11-20-2017, 10:30 AM
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Here's William Tyler playing through a siliver face Fender...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VGib-XYScA
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11-20-2017, 02:08 PM
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The old Super Champ XD has an "acoustic" setting and it sounds pretty good for casual making the guitar louder. The Super Champ XD has been discontinued and replaced with the Super Champ X2, I don't know if that replacement X2 still has the acoustic setting - the used XD's are very inexpensive, around $200 bucks. I have a Rivera Sedona 55 which is a very good all tube amp that features ch2 for acoustic amplification with a tweeter that can be turned on for that channel - it's A-level acoustic amplification. Doyle Dykes used to endorse that amp a few years back. It's ch1 is Marshall voiced for electric guitar, and ch2 without the tweeter engaged is more Fender voiced. Rivera now makes a Sedona 25 which I suspect will be more suited to todays live stage volume environments, and it's no doubt a lighter amp to carry. Superb tone.
Last edited by doublescale1; 11-20-2017 at 02:15 PM.
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11-20-2017, 02:59 PM
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FWIW, I used to use my Blues Jr. It was adequate and produced a pleasing tone, but nowhere near as articulate as my Fishman SA220.
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11-20-2017, 04:35 PM
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Acoustic instruments generally need something more full-range than your typical electric guitar amp, especially on the treble side. You also want something that is super-clean, with good headroom. Not many popular electric guitar amps tend to fit that description.
The Roland Jazz Chorus line is a pretty solid exception, since it's solid-state, pretty full-bodied, and infamous for it's amazing clean tones. Some of the modeling amps are a little more full-range, and can be programmed with a good acoustic signal path. The final option is to just make your acoustic-thru-amp tone it's own unique thing. A good EQ pedal would probably be a worthy investment in this particular case.
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11-21-2017, 08:37 AM
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I recently plugged my acoustic into a Fender Rumble 100 bass amp, which has a single 12-inch speaker. Not too bad of an acoustic sound! The guitar I was plugging in has a very accurate Dazzo pickup system with a MiSi Dazzo preamp in it, so I think it would sound pretty good plugged into most amps.
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11-21-2017, 09:14 AM
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Tried a bass amp, didn't like it. Got OK tones from a JC120. With a lot of tweaking I can get ok tones from a Roland Cube 80XL. Fender Custom Reverb is great with acoustics. Any keyboard amp had been great for my acoustics, especially my nylon stringers. In summary, I have had good results for the most part, notable exception being a Fender Blues Junior which sounded awful with any of my acoustic guitars.
So if you can, try before you buy. And be sure to turn the volume up to see how your acoustic sounds at volume...bad things can happen.
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11-21-2017, 09:22 AM
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I've had good luck with my old Polytone Minibrute.
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11-21-2017, 09:34 AM
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My '82 "Rivera Era" Princeton Reverb II sounds better than any "acoustic" amp I've used. You just have to know how to turn the knobs. EQ setting are very different than where they sit when running my Tele or Strat thru it.
That said, I still hate the sound of plugged in acoustics and always use a mic.
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11-21-2017, 09:55 AM
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Back in the late 60's we used Twin Reverb amp for acoustic, and don't forget we put electric guitar pickups in the acoustics. The old Epiphone J-160oe has a P90 pickup, John Lennon used thru a Twin Reverb.
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11-21-2017, 10:36 AM
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I recently heard John leventhal play with Rosanne Cash.
He played through a full size fender amp. It was a newer model and I couldn't see Any model name on it so I can't tell you Which one. But it looked to be a 2/12 or 4/10 Maybe one of their hot rod series (Deville)?? Size. Certainly a 4/10 might sound better With acoustic. But I was very impressed with Leventhals tone and of course talent. One could also replace speakers with something More akin to acoustic. But after all that expense One could certainly buy a good quality acoustic Amp. Last edited by varmonter; 11-21-2017 at 10:45 AM.
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#14
11-21-2017, 02:12 PM
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Most likely a rental supplied by the house.
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11-21-2017, 02:20 PM
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On all the early Beatles records, the acoustic guitars (J-160)were plugged into a Vox AC30. The acoustic guitar was also mic'ed with a U48. Both signals were blended to create the acoustic tone.
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