Acoustic

[slowpokerhino]

This question is mainly directed to Livewire, but any suggestions are welcome.

When you guys practice, what does your singer run his acoustic through? The PA?
I want to start playing my acoustic for some songs but haven't found a way to amplify it enough without it sounding really bad and getting feedback from hell.

[lowenzz]

When I was in a band the accoustic went into this fancy DI box and right to the mixer.

[LivewireBlanco]

Our singer runs his acoustic througha Peavey acoustic amp that has a second channel input for a microphone. It's a pretty good amp for practice situations. It's just loud enough to cut the mustard with our band at practice, but at gigs we just DI him into the board.
http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/prod ... sku=481373

It's also one heavy ass amp!

[BNS]

At gigs, I plug my acoustic into a DI box (direct input) - every sound guy will have them. The sound guy then eq's and levels it from the board. I use a soundhole cover (big cheap rubber disc) which completely eliminates feedback. Hope that helps.

[slowpokerhino]

I have a sound hole cover & it does help. Gigging wouldn't be a problem but practice is. We have 2 huge Peavey tower speakers (you can kind of see one just to the left of me in my avatar) and a 16 channel Mackie board, just need a power amp to complete the P.A.. A bit of overkill just for acoustic guitar though since we still have no singer.

[BNS]

Now I get it... Sorry. At the practice space we run the acoustic through whatever amps we are using (usually big Marshalls), so it never sounds good. However, I have a little Roland Cube that I sometimes use for "acoustic performances" and it sounds pretty good. They are useful little amps. I overpaid for mine, but I think you can find them used for a decent price.

[DeanM]

Now I get it... Sorry. At the practice space we run the acoustic through whatever amps we are using (usually big Marshalls), so it never sounds good. However, I have a little Roland Cube that I sometimes use for "acoustic performances" and it sounds pretty good. They are useful little amps. I overpaid for mine, but I think you can find them used for a decent price.

i got one of them for my first amp about 4yrs ago! Roland Cube30. which one do you have? i also overpaid for mine. i bought mine and a couple months later Roland cut their prices. for the same price i paid for the 30watt i could have gotten the 60watt! i was fairly pissed off!! :cuss