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lespaul214

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Ive recently bought an electric acoustic guitar and I was wondering if playing it through a normal electric amp would damage either the guitar or the amp?

 

Any advice from anyone?

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Only issue I can think of would be feedback, but you should be able to adjust that out with either the guitar's on board EQ or the volume/gain on the amp.

 

 

Have fun!

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I have used my El/Ac on my peavey 15 watt before, it worked fine, that is until you mess with gain, it works to some point with Gain, but after you stop playing it has horrible feedback due to being hollow.

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I've used both magnetic and piezo type pickups on acoustic guitars through several types of tube amps and, frankly, I like the sound better than through my "acoustic" amp.

 

The acoustic amps seem to carry the highs a little better, but since I use light strings, I kinda like a little more bass and middle. A regular amp does that pretty well.

 

But no way will it hurt the guitar that's I've ever heard of, and I started using an a-e back in the mid '70s.

 

Heck, in those days there was no such thing as an a-e amp. You used a regular amp or a PA mike. The piezo type pickups where just kinda coming in. A lot of otherwise "acoustic" guitars did come fitted with magnetic pickups of various sorts in a transitional phase.

 

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