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Old 01-06-2021, 06:24 AM
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People approach acoustic and electric guitars differently, but my way of thinking about the electric is that you have to really think of it as you are really playing the amp, and not the guitar. It may not make sense, but it was more of a "drive by wire" kind of experience for me at first. Your "feedback loop" has to be a lot bigger than the intimacy of strumming an acoustic guitar.

Unless you are going for a stadium sound and need to feel your bellbottoms flapping in the breeze of that double Marshall stack, I think low wattage, decent modeling amps (or inaudible latency sims like the Helix or similar) are a good place to help you find a sound that lets you play the amp, without having to stress about the rest of the folks in the building or on the block.

p.s. I always use a thinner pick (medium vs. heavy) and much lighter strings on electric.
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