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I plan on getting a new amp soon.
I have a Rogue Acoustic-Electric that I want to use with the amp.
I also have an Electric that I would like to use with the amp.
Anyone have any suggestions on what amp I should get?(At an affordable price)
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to get the best sound out of your acoustic you'll need a decent acoustic amp. through an electric amp it's just going to sound like an electric hollowbody at best (maybe you'll like that sound, i don't know). with the acoustic amp you won't get all the typical electric tones.
if you decide to go with the acoustic amp i'd suggest an ultrasound ag30.
http://www.shorelinemusic.com with free shipping ($200). made in the usa. good amp. i've owned it myself. if you decide to go with an electric amp i'm not sure what to recommend to you as i don't have as much experience in that area. so i'll leave that to someone else. i will just say i like vox.
since you don't need an amp to hear the acoustic well i might be more inclined to go with an electric amp if i were you. unless you're needing more acoustic volume for performance somewhere and can't plug into a pa system there.
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What's your music style you plan on playing?
What's your price range?
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Originally Posted by thomaspg70 What's your music style you plan on playing?
What's your price range?
Yes and where will you play with the amp, will you do shows(for size)
Will you do recording?
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The first thing that came to my mind when I read your post was a Rivera Doyle Dikes sig. but thats a fairly expensive amp.
In order to get decent acoustic tones you need an amp that has the right frequency response range to properly reproduce the full frequency output of an acoustic guitar. An amp made for electric guitar will work with an acoustic, but it won't sound good. It will lack the presence, and brilliance and sound dull and muddy.
An eq pedal, or better yet a PODXT Live will add to the frequencies and give a better reproduction of acoustic tone, but it's still not gonna be very good.
Another option would be to use an acoustic amp, and use it for your electric too. I know guys who do rehearsals running both acoustic and electric guitars into Fender acoustasonic amps. It's not ideal, and won't give you the best electric tone, but if you'r running some kind of amp modelor in front of it, like a SansAmp, it won't sound bad... depending on the electric tones you're looking for, and the setting you're planning on using it in.
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My acoustic electric sounds fine played through my Roland VGA-5's "ext in" input. All you need for the acoustic is the power amp section of the amp. Don't try playing it through the regular input.
With that said, you should look for an amp that has an input that just goes straight to the power amp, bypassing the preamp altogether. Use that for acoustic and the regular input for electric.
What do you consider an affordable price?
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Hey bro I'm Billy, I've got all kinds of equiptment. Full Pa system, Line 6 Flextone 2-12 guitar amp. But i didnt have an acoustic amp. So I started researching. I wanted something i could sing and play through and also use it as a bass amp. I checked out every posibility. This amp has 4 channels. 1 Low impedence/1/4. The other 3 are all 1/4. The amp is very powerful to be 65 watts. All i do is run an acoustic simulator pedal from my guitar and it sounds great. Anyway check it out.
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You could go with a setup like mine. It is a compromise but I don't think you can do much better without buying two amps. If I had the money to buy two amps (and my wife would let me) I would get the ultrasound 30 for the acoustic and a Fender Blues JR. for the electric. How much money do you have to spend and what type of venues are you looking to use the amps for?
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Cheap solution is to get a Microcube for home practice and rehearsals. The Microcube has an acoustic setting and a bunch of amp models. The acoustic setting is surprisingly good -- I've used it to play acoustic gigs in small rooms.
I'm not familiar with the settings on the other Roland Cube models, but if the Cube 30 or Cube 60 have acoustic settings, then they'd be worth testing out at your local music store.
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Something thats around 2 or 3 hundred dollars.
I will mostly use the amp to play hyms at my local church.
Bluegrass..Such as that.
If you could provide me with a site that has the specific amp your talking about, it would help me greatly.
Thanks everyone.