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Acoustic or not acoustic

Posted On: 16/09/2007 22:03:03

When you sit down at home and play your acoustic at home its acoustic. You take your acoustic out to play at a gig you mike it up to be heard thats acoustic,next you add a bit of reverb you know just to add that little lift I know how about a modeling type gizmo, now just a minuet I know we're playing an acoustic but we're changing things a bit now is it still acoustic or is it electric played on an acoustic? get my drift. I am no purist just a thought though.

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From: tonywool

04/11/2007 17:38:12

This is an easy one to answer, but possibly harder to grasp the concept. When playing an acoustic guitar through a PA or similar the objective is to "reinforce" the acoustic sound. When playing a solid body guitar the objective is to amplify the sound. A reinforced sound should still sound like an acoustic guitar. The same principle applies to vocals. A reinforced vocal should sound substantially the same as the unamplified voice. An amplified vocal can, as we all know, sound like just about anything. A good soundman should know the difference.

From: DaveNorman2

01/11/2007 13:02:48

Enigmatic question!

If its an acoustic, why not benefit from a bit extra processing of the sound? After all you can change the tone by where along the string you hit it, by damping (either hand) by whether you use fingers - nail or flesh - or a plectrum. There could be a whole blog on plectrums, i've tried many types.

More important, transducing acoustics has made them available as a far superior rhythm instrument than an electric, and added positively to a lot of current music.