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Re: Acoustic Amplifier

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I doubt the Katana has a full treble frequency response. It doesn't have a tweeter, just a 12inch speaker.

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Keyboard amps can be a good option, but I had a Roland Keyboard amp (one of the old cube ones) and my acoustic (with a preamp) always felt like it was too 'hot' for it. Some kind of almost-clipping going on.
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bbrunskill wrote:I doubt the Katana has a full treble frequency response. It doesn't have a tweeter, just a 12inch speaker.
Have to back of the treble a bit as it has sibilance that is noticeable.

Run Takamine > BodyRez > Katana.

12 is rather nice and the six comes out sounding like it did from Acoustasonic - bodyrez filtering helps.
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vintage52 wrote:
bbrunskill wrote:I doubt the Katana has a full treble frequency response. It doesn't have a tweeter, just a 12inch speaker.
Have to back of the treble a bit as it has sibilance that is noticeable.
I suspect that's the 'acoustic' model chucking a lot of treble at a speaker that it physically can't reproduce.

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I have tried all sorts over the years for piezo and soundhole pkups and to be fair still looking.
Fishman pre-amps, G and Aura
Boss acoustic sim pedal
Various other pedals using straight preamps and compressors
I have a ZT Lunchbox which I got for the occasional acoustic song during a gig. It's very small and only has a 5" speaker, so the sound is quite confined and boxy, but volume wise can hold its own in an electric band for a small venue. The lunchbox has some compression built in and with an extension speaker or DI'd to a PA is great. Lately I have moved to using a LR Baggs parametric DI. I connect this straight to my Keyboard amp , which is DI'd to the PA., although the baggs DI has a DI connection too. Reasonably happy with the baggs currently although this all starts with decent pkups imho.
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My acoustic is an Epiphone EJ200E, a budget guitar, but has stereo pickups. A piezo under the bridge & a magnetic one at the end of the finger board. Sometimes I blend the two together, but it sounds best with the magnetic pickup only and I play it through my SWR California Blonde amp which has a switchable tweeter. The California Blande is an amazing amp - I also use it as my Bass amp.
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I've got one of these, very good for acoustic and vocals:

https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/ ... bud-review

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Conway wrote:I've got one of these, very good for acoustic and vocals:

https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/ ... bud-review

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I saw you had one of those. Impressive wee beastie by the sounds of it. What do they cost?

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Lots of noodles.
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I use it to shout at my neighbours.
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Wow, that's as much as an AER. Must be awesome then!

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olegmcnoleg wrote:
Wow, that's as much as an AER. Must be awesome then!
Blimmin awesome, especially with Bolinger playing ....

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