Accoustic Guitar + Distortion

[FrankyBoy]

Re: Accoustic Guitar + Distortion

Have you seen It Might Get Loud? Jack White plays all these funky hollowbodies with weak little pickups, as close to a acoustic as you can get and still be an "electric guitar". But he plays them through nasty tube amps and seems to almost always have a Big Muff in the chain.

It's funny that you talk about it, since my girlfriend gave this to me as one of my gifts. It was quite interresting and yeah Jack's tone is weird, but I like it I think.

 

[FrankyBoy]

Re: Accoustic Guitar + Distortion

Some of you talked about the Piezo pickup, it is the one Parker guitars have right?

 

[jake_xms3_punk]

Re: Accoustic Guitar + Distortion

ye, but piezo pickups are generally acoustic pickups, if you have an electric acoustic and can't see the pickup, you've got a peizo. you can buy them built into TOM and hardtail bridges etc.

 

[David Collins]

Re: Accoustic Guitar + Distortion

Look at some of the stuff Vic Chesnutt played - He was a great songwriter, and very soulful performer, doing it all with a nearly immobilized right hand, and maybe three mostly functional left hand fingers on a good day. Sadly, we lost an incredible artist of our time when he took his life last week.

He played that classical guitar of his out of necessity and ergonomics dictated by his disabilities, and managed to come upr with some great tones for his style of work. I don't know what pickup he was using (likely just a saddle transducer), but he certainly made it work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkE3JsWZCi8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rPyQFmGmb4

Amazing what you can come up with when you're forced to think a bit differently.

 

[dd12939]

Re: Accoustic Guitar + Distortion

I like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBUUOJpFg9Y

 

[FrankyBoy]

Re: Accoustic Guitar + Distortion

I like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBUUOJpFg9Y

Hell Yeah this is awesome I like this kind of stuff too. This guy definitly feels it right.