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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | I have a Piezo in my Carvin DC400. Was hoping it would kinda sorta sound like an acoustic. It doesn't....just sounds kinda sorta whimpy and twangy.
Plus it has a short in the Piezo near the 1/4" plug as it cuts in and out unless I thump it just right. |
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Location: Tucson, AZ | ...originally, I was "hoping" to install one of those "super-thin" Anderson, neck-mounted HB's on my EA68 Viper...until I found out there wasn't enough space between the body and strings for the pup to fit, darn! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Can you get any kind of electric crunch ...
Well, I can make my Adamas sound like an electric, in the Punk vein, if I overdrive an electric amp with it, so if your operative word is "any", I don't see why the answer shouldn't be: yes. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Any is a BIG relative term. You can get a crunch out of anything with an tube-driven Marshall, but whether or not it sounds good is a different story.
For kicks, I plugged in both the EA68 and an 1881 Adamas SSB into my Marshall Valvestate and cranked it up...I will say that with the "crunchy" sounds the amp was putting out it did work much closer to an electric with the Viper than with the Acoustic. Projection from the guitar does make a chunk of the difference; with the chambered body on the EA68, you can handle a LOT more gain than a regular acoustic before getting feedback or "conflicting" sounds.
I will say this, back to the original topic, at less than half the price of a T5, the EA68 has it way over Taylor on the "amped acoustic" end of things. The T5 just is designed to appeal to a very wide spread of guitarists, particularly electric players who sometimes switch to acoustic (and are too lazy to actually change guitars :D ). |
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Viper EA68 vs. Taylor T-5
