Acoustic guitar tube amplifiers - please tell me about your experiences

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Permalink Reply by Judgestone on February 10, 2010 at 6:26pm

I play my acoustic through my "electric" tube amps and it doesn't sound to well. I can EQ it and use a compressor and kinda get a decent sound. It also depends on what kind of pickup is in the acoustic guitars I play through it; but even the best sound doesn't sound as good as a regular acoustic amp. Now if there is a tube acoustic amp out there, I am not aware of it.

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Permalink Reply by Jay Young on February 17, 2010 at 3:11pm

Thanks for the response. Doyle Dykes' rig sounds amazing. I heard him when he was touring for Taylor solo in a room that was about 40' x 80'. His amp was the Rivera Sedona 55 Doyle Dykes Signature Combo (or a custom variation of) all tube and clear as a bell and filled the entire room. That amp has a high frequency driver that really pulls out the detail of his technique. Most electric guitar tube amps are designed to attenuate the higher end of the frequency spectrum to get rid of the "ice pick" effect.

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