any guitar musicians here?

beachBOYken · 22 May 2007 at 14:55

hi

in need of a bit of help, im after a marshall amp for my acoustic electric and electric guitar.

if i was too get a standard marshall amp would it be ok for an acoustic electric as i dont want to have to get a seperate aucoustic amp.

cheers

syke · 22 May 2007 at 14:56

Naffa is clued up on Guitar stuff..cant remember who else.

Im sure he'll post here when he sees it

J1234 · 22 May 2007 at 15:09

Probably get more response in the Music sub-section.

Andelusion · 22 May 2007 at 15:12

beachBOYken said:
If i was too get a standard marshall amp would it be ok for an acoustic electric as i dont want to have to get a seperate acoustic amp.

Yeah it should be fine, it won't sound as good as going into a proper acoustic amp but it'll definately sound alright.

Docaroo · 22 May 2007 at 15:17

you COULD use a marshall's clean channel for acoustic but you'd obviosuly be FAR better using an acoustic amp/keyboard amp or straight into a PA... basically with acoustics you want a FRFR (Full Range, Flat Response) amplifier and speaker system.... a guitar amp is most definately not FRFR and so will colour the acoustic sound a lot ... but if you want it for basic stuff/practicing/etc you'll be fine....

lemonkettaz · 22 May 2007 at 15:19

Your best off getting a specific acoustic amp...

Much more tone control for your electric acoustic

georges · 22 May 2007 at 15:20

Acoustics -> clean channel = clean electric sound.. trust

Not that it's a bad sound. It obviously has a little more, but not much difference, except you get the feel of playing acoustic which is different to electrics (string spacing etc).

If you're getting one of the solid state ones, they sometimes have "CD input", I've found plugging your instrument into that changes the sound to a lesser degree than going fully through the pre-amp.

Docaroo · 22 May 2007 at 15:32

georges said:
If you're getting one of the solid state ones, they sometimes have "CD input", I've found plugging your instrument into that changes the sound to a lesser degree than going fully through the pre-amp.

but still has the problem of having to go through a guitar amplifiers speakers

but going straight into the power amp is an option although it won't be as loud and some amps won't even let you control the volume if there's no master volume!!

You can do this on almost all amps (ie jack into the power amp) but plugging into the "FX Return" jack on the amp...

beachBOYken · 22 May 2007 at 15:45

hi

thanks for the replys , the one im looking at is the marshall avt100x-http://www.marshallamps.com/product.asp?productCode=AVT100X which has 3 channels clean/overdrive 1 and overdrive 2.

?

as someone said im only using it for my own use so not worried about precise acoustic sound aslong is it sounds ok.

Docaroo · 22 May 2007 at 16:03

that will be fine, you can plug your acoustic straight into the clean channel or go into the FX Return jack... either way you'll be ok!

beachBOYken · 22 May 2007 at 16:47

hi

just thinking about i do play more acoustic would this be good-

http://www.marshallamps.com/product.asp?productCode=AS100D

Docaroo · 22 May 2007 at 17:04

that depends on what you need from the amp in terms of electric guitar because that amp while best for acoustic will not be useable for electric.... whereas the other amp is obviously great for electric guitar and still useable for acoustic??

beachBOYken · 23 May 2007 at 12:15

hi

well ive got a electric guitar but i dont play it as ive gone onto bass and acoustic , but like you say with the normal amp i can have both through it, but then if i only play the acoustic i should get a proper acoustic amp?

really stuck on what one to get :confused:

i must say i do love acoustic , i have not picked up my old electric for about 2 years.

cheers

elevenseventysix · 23 May 2007 at 13:36

Btw, 'guitar musicians' are called 'guitarists'.

beachBOYken · 23 May 2007 at 14:36

jackgnic said:
Btw, 'guitar musicians' are called 'guitarists'.

and there also called musicians

anyway ive decided on the acoustic amp at £320.

cheers

Docaroo · 23 May 2007 at 18:56

beachBOYken said:
and there also called musicians

anyway ive decided on the acoustic amp at £320.

cheers

i was gonna come back and say sounds like you should just get the acoustic amp - it will be MUCH better for acoustic and since you never play electric I'd go with that!

enjoy!