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Location: Wooster, Ohio | After a discussion of low frets I dusted off my 1974 Les Paul Custom and am starting to play it a little more. Only amp I have now is a Genz Benz 200 Shenandoah. I have a effects half rack that I am patching in, in the back. Sounds fine but is there any downside to using an acoustic amp for electric. Would an electric guitar amp give me any better sound? Last trivia question on the back I can patch in the effects into l and r main or into each channel. What is the difference. The manual does not really explain what is going on here.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | If you plan to crank it a bit or have effects pedals at a moderate level, you would do better with an electric guitar amp.
If you just plan to play softly and sweetly in the bedroom, what you have is fine.
If you decide you want to go with another amp, I have 3-4 that might work out for you. Shoot me an email if interested. |
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Location: Scotland | Try going through an amp simulator first. POD, Sansamp, Johnson J Station, Digitech Genesis, Behringer V-amp etc etc. Playing an electric guitar through an acoustic amp sounds about as good as playing an acoustic through an amp designed for electric guitars, which is not very. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You have a very nice acoustic amp. If you just want a practice amp for your Les Paul, you could probably get one new or used for the price of any of the devices that would try to make your acoustic amp perform like an electric. I got an almost new Behringer 112 Blue Devil 60 watts with more effects than I know how to use for $85. There are lots of small amps around. |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | Interesting to me. A acoustic amp I thought just amplifies a wider range of sound and more exactly. As I listen to this amp with an electric it sounds fine to me. What am I missing? If I want to switch between acoustic and electric in performance I have to have two amps, what a pain.
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Location: Scotland | This is something of am oversimplification, but it's more to do with speakers than amplifiers. Electric guitar amps have always been used with speakers which have a pretty limited frequency response, voiced to emphasise mid frequencies. This is fine for electric guitar, especially when distortion is involved, but doesn't work for acoustic instruments which require full range speakers (this is why most acoustic amps have 2 or 3 way speaker systems) If you play electric guitar with a clean (undistorted) tone at moderate volume then you can probably get away with using an acoustic amp. If you are looking for "classic" electric guitar sounds you'll need an amp or amp simulator designed for that purpose. |
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Location: SoCal | Couple of years ago, Temp showed me that an acoustic amp, with a POD plugged into it, works just fine. |
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