![]() ![]() What I have built was more out of neglect to my passion with some technical "No-how" and bare-minimum Sacagawea's. I would say I recommend An Acoustic Guitar with the ability to sound like a Electric when its accessible and affordable.Mine is one of a newbie, and I'm not a music professional at all Thanks for the all the awesome response's. But personally I hate the sound of transducers, I really hate that crispy crunch.īut the Pro-Mag and K&K combo shouldn't run you more than a couple of hundred bucks.Īs for 12-strings, I've had a 12-string and I decided that using good chorus and poly-octave pedals meant I didn't have to haul that big old piece of furniture to gigs. My preference is to mic the acoustic and mute the mic when I'm playing heavy. I also have a K&K piezo pickup installed on the guitar but I have to completely mute the piezo if I'm playing with much overdrive or it will squeal like crazy. Jimi Hendrix) but if it's a problem then you may have to go with a different magnetic pickup and a soundhole cover.Īs for folks that claim that an acoustic guitar with a magnetic pickup will sound like a hollow-body guitar, all I can say is that first, audience members can't seem to tell the difference and second there's been quite a few hard rock careers built on hollow-bodies. One problem you will see is that the acoustic guitar will get more feedback under high sound levels on stage. The problem you will see with brass-wound strings is a drop off in volume but you can overcome this with nickel-wound strings. I run the pickup through a multi-effects pedalboard which works as well as individual pedals. I like the Markley Pro-Mag magnetic pickups a lot for this. I've made my acoustic steel string sound like a solid-body electric for years by using a soundhole electric pickup and carefully-tuned effects, especially EQ, sustain, overdrive and cabinet simulator. But "electric and acoustic sounds from one guitar” is a big ask, because that covers a wide range of sounds and styles, and no solution has ever drawn a huge audience. I'm personally interested in what you can do with piezo pickups, which is why I can go on like this with minimal research. Magnetic pickups don't behave the same way, so things liked Slinkys were invented.Īcoustic guitars and electric guitars are separate instruments with separate roles that just kinda play similarly. Acoustic guitars work by getting the strings to impart vibration to the top, and heavy strings do this. It was okay, but it did not sound like a solid-body guitar. Going the other way, you can get magnetic soundhole pickups for acoustics. ![]() Right now, if you're thinking "I want these sounds and only want to bring one guitar to the gig", the Acoustasonic is the easy solution, and if you fit in that niche, it's good. This is going to be an expensive decision. But if you're electric-first, then you have a Y-cable, separate effects, and another amp or DI. ![]() If you're going the Acoustasonic route, you're likely going into some reverb or something, then into a DI box, and having the guitar pretend to be electric can stay there.
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