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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
This has made me think. Is a bad acoustic sound more noticeable/offensive than a bad electric guitar sound? I think it is, although I'm not sure I can explain why.
Don't get me wrong - I don't hate Fender, not by any means. I like Strats, I love Teles, and my 59 Fender bass was by far the best bass guitar I've ever played in my life. But those Acoustasonic things ... just no.
I play a lot of acoustic/classical stuff, and the options are comparable with the electric world, there is also context which has a huge bearing on what you would want to hear.
With the classical guitar, essentially I want it to sound as close as possible to its unamplified tone, and a K&K pickup and pre-amp into a Trace Acoustic TA50R or an AER Compact 60 is pretty close. It will never be perfect because that kind of sound isn’t in ‘straight lines’ by its nature, and any amplified sound invariably will be.
https://youtu.be/06rbQBOH5AA
But when the amp was turned off and I just played the guitar itself...it was quite bland and uninspiring to me. I know that people play them for their plugged in tone, but the majority of my playing is done acoustically and I need to love that first and foremost. Maybe I tried a dud and I'd be willing to revisit them but on the strength of what I heard that day I wouldn't purchase one unless I was gigging all the time and needed that.
for me anyways
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I play a lot with fiddle, accordion and flute players where my role is both percussive and chordal. Anything that doesn't come across as organic will sound out of place and my current setup of Tak341 and Tonedexter is as good as I've heard anywhere in that respect.