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How to make an electro-acoustic guitar sound electric?
A bit of fun for a Friday.
You are given an acoustic guitar with a piezo pickup, a basic amp with no onboard effects, and $/£100 to spend on pedals to make a sound as close to a (your choice of) classic electric guitar sound. What do you get? I'm enjoying learning about FX pedals and thought I'd have a go at this, so my thinking is that 2 pedals could do it... 1)A compressor
2) Some sort of low gain overdrive...
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I plug in my Martins into a blackface Super Reverb and add a Boss SD1 and Carbon Copy delay. That's my jam!
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Well if it sounds good, it is good as they say. And electric guitar sound is a big area with lots of different sounds.
I'd be tempted to put a soundhole magnetic pickup in it, and go with Monel strings myself. Not a soundhole magnetic with special circuits or added sensors to make it sound more acoustic, a simple mag pickup like an electric guitar uses. I'd even consider making my own holder for an electric guitar pickup. At that point, when plugged in it is an electric guitar with some resonance differences due to the acoustic guitar body. Other than feedback any electric pedal or sound is available. Think: Elmore James, Gabor Szabo, Beatles with J160e, early J J Cale.
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My live show relies on a lot of looping and switching back and forth between acoustic tone, bass (emulated via octave pedal) and electric tone (via Boss SD-1W and DM-2W) for lead breaks etc.
I primarily use Sunrise pickups in my gigging guitars and love them. They’re a simple, passive soundhole mag pickup which have been around for 40yrs or so, and are SO versatile. In my opinion, with a piezo (SBT or UST) you will never be able to recreate a pleasing or useful “electric” tone. With any overdrive or distortion they sound thin and brittle, and octave pedals often struggle to track with them. A mag will get you MUCH closer, though. I can get close to the Dave Gilmour/Gary Moore style of lead tone with my SJ200 and Sunrise, which-I know-doesn’t compute on paper, but really works in actuality.
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Comp and a tube screamer..
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