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Originally Posted by greenchimneys
Just had to vent. Why is there so much electric content flooding this archtop specific forum recently? I really had high hopes for this section when it debuted, hoping it would feature some interesting threads on archtop acoustics, not hollowbody and semihollowbody electrics. An archtop is an acoustic instrument, floating pickup or not. Could we perhaps keep the electric content where it belongs for those of us interested in archtops and not hollowbody electrics?
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My archtop would only be half the guitar it is without a pickup.
Magnetic pickups are part of the archtop identity. I'm not much interested in thin-body electric archtops personally. But they're archtops.
But I have no use - zero - for a purely acoustic archtop, although mine functions just fine (thank you) as an acoustic archtop. It has plenty of acoustic volume & tone. And it sounds fabulous plugged in with tremolo. It's a Jekyll/Hyde monster. That's what archtops are. Unplugged, they're Dr. Jekyll. Plugged in - they can be Mr. Hyde. I want both.