Crate Acoustic Guitar Amps

A crap load of Questions about my Acoustic/Electric Guitar!?

What does an acoustic Preamp do? today my freind pluged my new taylor into his regular electric crate 4 by 12 and it sounded awesome but i heard thats not good at all, i think your supposed to bye an acoustic/electric amp right?. what r some things i need to play this guitar other than acoustically, like amps, cords, preamps, pedals, stuff like that.

An acoustic preamp is basically a way to control the volume and tone of an acoustic guitar pickup. Most of todays acoustic electrics come equipped with volume and tone controls that run on battery power so there is no need for a separate preamp. Some acoustic electrics come with a pickup only so that is where the need for a preamp or direct box comes in. You don’t necessarily have to have one, as you can plug the pickup directly into the amp or P.A. system, but then you can’t control the volume or tone from the guitar.

You can plug your acoustic electric into any electric guitar amp without hurting a thing. There is no need for an acoustic electric amp but the nice thing about them is they are voiced specificly for acoustic tone. Their preamps and speaker systems are tuned for that purpose. Acoustic electric amps are ideal for smaller gigs where you are not running instruments through the P.A. system.

You don’t need any certain guitar cords for an acoustic electric. Any good guitar cord will do.

As far as pedals go they are not necessary either unless you want to add some effects to your sound.

When it comes to amping up the sound there are many different ways you can go , here are just a few.

1. directly through a guitar amp
2. directly through an acoustic electric guitar amp
3. directly through either a regular or an acoustic electric amp with a microphone in front of it to go through the P.A. system.
4. ( probably the most common way ) straight through the P.A. system via a direct box or preamp

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