Accoustic Guitar + Distortion

[FrankyBoy]

Yeah... The other day I thought : What if I plug my accoustic guitar (Tanglewood) into my MetalZone and to the Roland Cube 30 amp? Man someone tell me what is going on with me but I think it's sounds ****ing BADASS. Of course there is a lot of feedback when I'm not playing, but man... Plus, the cleans are wonderful. I received the MetalZone for xmas, but I'm kinda deceived with it, I thought it would be better than the distortions presets on my amp but they sound quite more "Real" but it gets me some really dirty oldschool thrash sound I guess. Tho, with the accoustic it sounds real nice.

Does this mean I want an hollowbody electric guitar? And is there anybody who tried this before?

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

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The Edge uses an acoustic live for one of the Achtung Baby tracks with tons of effects and distortion, it sounds awesome too.

 

[Travis H]

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= crapy sound IMO i have tryed

 

[phil_104]

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I play my acoustic electric (with sound hole blocker), through a boss DS-1 strait into the PA system for tracks like ''The Man Who Sold the World'' when I gig. Sounds fine.

 

[jeremy]

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i recorded a track on an album with a mic on the acoustic guitar and the soundhole pup run into a cranked tweed deluxe in another room. blending the two together worked really well.

 

[75lespaul]

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Yeah... The other day I thought : What if I plug my accoustic guitar (Tanglewood) into my MetalZone and to the Roland Cube 30 amp? Man someone tell me what is going on with me but I think it's sounds ****ing BADASS. Of course there is a lot of feedback when I'm not playing, but man... Plus, the cleans are wonderful. I received the MetalZone for xmas, but I'm kinda deceived with it, I thought it would be better than the distortions presets on my amp but they sound quite more "Real" but it gets me some really dirty oldschool thrash sound I guess. Tho, with the accoustic it sounds real nice.

Does this mean I want an hollowbody electric guitar? And is there anybody who tried this before?

It's just another tool to use. If you can make it work for a song or if that's the sound you love, then rock on! A hollowbody would sound different because of the construction, type of pickups etc. Just another sound you'll have to see if you like. Personally, I love the sound of hollowbody guitars.

 

[baritone]

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It's a neat sound to mess around with, but I would usually keep the fuzziness low. I have done this with 2 different guitars (piezo pickup and soundhole pickup). The piezo with distortion sounded a little weaker, but keeping the distortion on lower settings helps.

 

[Rich_S]

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Who were the band back in the - what... late 80's, early 90's? - that played acoustics through Marshalls? Was that The Alarm?

Also, I recently read about a Brazillian duo who used to play metal but have switched to nylon-string. The guy plays some of his acoustic parts through effects and 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.

 

[beandip]

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Monte Montgomery runs his Yairi through two vintage TS-808's. With a piezo pickup, and using a feedback buster, you can get some interesting sounds. Sounds hole as well. Just don't try it with sound board transducers.

 

[j9fd3s]

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most of nirvana unplugged is acoustic thru a fender twin...

 

[BloodRose]

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Who were the band back in the - what... late 80's, early 90's? - that played acoustics through Marshalls? Was that The Alarm?

Also, I recently read about a Brazillian duo who used to play metal but have switched to nylon-string. The guy plays some of his acoustic parts through effects and distortion.

Rodrigo Y Gabriel.. (she's cute) But yeah, they are awesome! Great Players and she does percussion on the guitar body..

My Taylor sounds great thru my PV classic 30. I ran it thru the JCM 800 the other day and had a ball with that too!! EASY to get feedback tho

 

[Rod Turtle]

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Who were the band back in the - what... late 80's, early 90's? - that played acoustics through Marshalls? Was that The Alarm?

Also, I recently read about a Brazillian duo who used to play metal but have switched to nylon-string. The guy plays some of his acoustic parts through effects and 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.

Rodrigo y Gabriela, but they're not brazilian, I think they're mexican.

To the thread, al di meola does it, but I don't think his tone is good, though his tone playing eletrics isn't good too.

 

[Aceman]

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Generally speaking, FAIL. However - I'm not saying it can't work or that diggable sound are impossible.

 

[cayle_6]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ztuvMsy-c

OD perhapsbut not distortion.

 

[Pontiac Jack]

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Who were the band back in the - what... late 80's, early 90's? - that played acoustics through Marshalls? Was that The Alarm?

Yeah,The Alarm used it to good effect on stuff like "Spirit Of '76"

Nice haircuts boys........:biglaugh:

"Street Fighting Man" by the Stones is supposedly Keith playing an acoustic with a soundhole pickup plugged into a portable tape recorder player that is distorting like crazy,then miked.

Cheers,PJ

 

[J Moose]

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i recorded a track on an album with a mic on the acoustic guitar and the soundhole pup run into a cranked tweed deluxe in another room. blending the two together worked really well.

That's an old if somewhat uncommon trick.

Really great for big, bruising chunky chords.

 

[tmmblues]

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Something seems wrong about trying to plug an acoustic into a Marshall unless it's ES175.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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There are actualyl a lot of examples of an acoustic through an amp and distorted in some way or another...

However, this DOES NOT mean that you want a hollowbody guitar...a D28 and an ES175 have NOTHING in common besides being hollow and guitars...the sound you want would actually be closer to a Piezio pickup on an electric guitar...

 

[tmmblues]

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Wasn't trying to compare sound of ES175 to non-electric acoustic…just that when I play acoustic I'm not looking for distortion but fully expect it with a hollow-body electric such as an ES175

 

[dominus]

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I've done it, I had a classical acoustic-electric Jasmine (Takamine), ran it into a POD and it sounded absolutely heavy.