My acoustic is my electric.

[Jerad]

Well right now I have two guitars, my Takamine acoustic/electric, and my brothers old MIM fender strat. I got a little 35W electric amp that I use for both. Usually I switch my amp to the rythem channel for my acoustic, because I was always led to believe that acoustic's just sound like crap on the lead channel. Boy was I wrong!

 

I turned up the game, effects, and distortion and let it rip! My Darn acoustic sounds meaner than my fender! Now it's nowhere near heavy metal tones, but it has a nice little crunch going, and the sustain you get from acoustic just can't be beat by any electrics.

 

I dare say it, but my acoustic is my new electric.

[guit30]

Some one that likes the natural crunch of piezos

[pipedwho]

Originally posted by Jerad I turned up the game ...

That usually has the most significant effect on your sound! I've turned up my game lately by working on better right hand technique.

 

... and the sustain you get from acoustic just can't be beat by any electrics.

There must be something wrong with your electric, because sustain on my acoustic is just right for acoustic playing. Sustain on my electric goes for ages, so much so that acoustic pieces sound a bit more blurry because of the excessive ring duration!

[kwakatak]

Funny, I play mostly my electric as an acoustic. I've always loved the unplugged tone and the feel of the action on my Strat-type guitars over the years. It's when I plug them in that I get frustrated with the tone. Dialing in an amp is an art that I was never taught and I'm too impatient to try and learn on my own.

 

That's why I lke acoustic guitars. No uncoiling cable after cable and setting up a whole chain of effects. No fiddling with ambiguously-labeled knobs. No restriction on having to stay with 25' of the amp without relying on yet another piece of expensive gear clipped to my belt. With my acoustics, I'm free to walk about the house or even go outside in my yard and play.

 

 

Of course, it's probably because the electric guitar requires more control and finesse than I possess. I prefer to let strings ring out on my acoustics but I can't pay that way on an electric without it sounding like noise.

 

[kwakatak]

 

Originally posted by pipedwho There must be something wrong with your electric, because sustain on my acoustic is just right for acoustic playing. Sustain on my electric goes for ages, so much so that acoustic pieces sound a bit more blurry because of the excessive ring duration!

 

 

+1

[guitarist21]

I tried to use my acoustic at a show with my band once. I used my acoustic on a bunch of the songs anyway, so I figured, "Why bother switching for two songs?" I got an okay crunch tone on one of the songs, but when it was time for the hard-rocking solo, my guitar fed back like NO OTHER. It was awful.

Moral of the story: I think you can use your acoustic as your electric, but only to a certain point. Its probably a good idea stay away from very loud applications.

 

Ellen