Guitar Amp for Electric and Acoustic

Is there an amp that will take an electric guitar and an acoustic giutar?

The only amp I have found that is good for accoustic and electric is a
Fender Prinston Chorus. I have one, and I think that because of the 10 inch speakers it helps with pulling out the high end a little better. Problem with using a guitar amp for accoustic is that electric guitar amps are designed to color the sound where as keyboard and accoustic amps are designed to make the sound transparent.

You can use an electric guitar amp for an acoustic, but it is not going to sound very good and Vise versa. Acoustic Amps, and Keyboard amps are designed more like a PA with a biAmped speaker system. The Acoustic amp normally contains a 10" or 12" speaker and a Horn (tweeter) for high end. A guitar amp only has the one type of speaker (no horn) so you do not get the high end definition you will get from having the tweeter. The new Line 6
Vetta 2 does the best job of any for being able to do acoustic and electric tones. You can also use a POD into the front end of an Acoustic amp and be able to dial in your electric tones more like you would when plugging into a
PA, and bypass it for the acoustic guitar. Hope this helps.

Look for amps designed for keyboards. They work well for that application.
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Or an A/B switch with A going to the PA (or acoustic amp) and B going to the electric amp...one, the other, both, or off...couple this with a Godin LGX (or equivalent) and a good effects series and you've got mega versatility.
Just my .02 worth.

Generally speaking, an acoustic works best through an acoustic amp or is fine through a PA or keyboard amp. Problem is, those amps are pretty bad for electrics, especially if you're looking for any preamp drive, which most of us like.

Conversely, an acoustic will sound semi-okay through an electric amp, but will have too much distortion and generally won't hit the high notes properly.

I'm thinning the herd here at Castle Scrofula and am about to list an amp that does both on ebay. It's a Laney GC-60A. It's a solid state amp with two 10" speakers and a tweeter that can be switched on or off for the acoustic stuff. Two totally separate channels and it can run in stereo with two inputs or mono from one. The acoustic channel has hi and lo inputs, gain, three band EQ, adjustable notch filter for feedback, and reverb.

The electric channel has hi and low inputs, and is switchable for normal or drive operation. controls on the electric side are normal gain, overdrive drive, overdrive level (switchable by a pull pot or through a footswitch I don't have), bass, mid, treble and reverb. There is then a master volume, adjustable stereo chorus (depth and frequency pots). Reverb is a short accutronics tank, no digital anyhting.

The acoustic side sounds great. The electric is pretty good, although I'm a tube amp guy and it doesn't match my all-tube Laney or Fenders. Overdrive can get very dirty, especially with hot humbuckers. Clean electric sounds very nice. I used it for a while with my old godin LGX, which had separate piezo and electric outputs, so I could go from a nice acoustic to a dirty electric soundquickly and easily...great for the Stairway to Heaven sort of thing!

Will run two guitars simultaneously, so you and a friend can play through a single amp. Has FX loop, headphone output. Very very versatile, 30 watts per chanel or 60 watts in mono mode, gets very loud.

Black, heavy duty, metal mesh over the speakers.

I'm hoping to get around $200 or more for it, but will entertain pre-auction offers. Check me out on the bay as gbready...75 positive feedback rating, no negs. If you're interested, email me and I'll get pics to you. This email is a throw away and receiving dozens of microsoft update virus messages a day, so give a try at bready at ev1 dot net.

It's a great amp for the right person...and it sounds like you may be the right sort of person. I've liked it, but really have too many amps and guitars these days.

There you have it. Straight from the horse's mouth.

hey cyberserf...I'll get some pics and send them to you in the next day or so. I got it specifically to use with the LGX, which I sold when I got a
Guild Crossroads (semi-hollow tele style with piezo and active emg pups).

Which works out good cuz my current setup with my LGX is an A/B with to A going to a Marshall AS50R patched to the PA and B going to a 1973 Fender
Twin Reverb...as long as the Laney does clean as well as acoustic, it may fit the bill...I'm going to head out in the next couple of days and try to hunt one down in our local shops for a test drive. ttyl.

OK...I'm interested...but my top is $400 Canadian with shipping included...is this possible? Send pics...but the description is tempting all by itself....uhmmm...

hiya..i am in the same boat I play acoustic but I'd really like to start incorporating my electric guitars too. Check out the Rivera Sedana amp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCj1t8skyLw let me know if u find a good acoust/elec amp!!

Sarah, welcome to the forum

That sounds very good.