Playing Vinyl Through Acoustic Amp

What follows are eight vinyl friendly amplifiers.

Playing vinyl through acoustic amp. Gram amp 2 communicator. A poorly matched amp can produce a confused muddle from an analogue source. I have been playing in the pit for local musicals for years and use a fishman loudbox performer for both my les paul electric and taylor acoustic electric. For amp if you have a turntable and third party speakers but no amplifier you can connect them to the sonos system directly using sonos amp.

Built in a tiny chassis spanning 40x100x100 that you could easily hold in your hand the stereo box s still manages to pump out 25w of power. The deal of the century. It s not the best sounding amp at high levels but at a reasonable volume this little amp has a lot to offer with excellent focus. The configuration does the job maybe not perfect but allows me to use one light amp.

One channel for the acoustic guitar and one for the electric using a digitech rp500 board for the les paul. The eq on acoustic amps is slightly different from that on electric guitar amps and that on bass amps too. Initially you need to find an amp that will be able to handle lots of detail subtlety and nuance from the analogue signal. There should be sufficient tonal control to get a decent sound that way especially for playing in a studio and teaching with.

The goal with the acoustic amplifier is to amplify your acoustic guitar tone faithfully with no distortion no feedback and none of the artificial twackiness that you can get when electro. Secondly you should be wary of clashing with vinyl s trademark warm sound. Best acoustic guitar amps. The goal is to make your acoustic s natural tone louder not necessarily different like when you plug an electric guitar which has pickups and controls that greatly affect tone into an electric amp which are tuned to highlight midrange and treble frequencies that provide distortion.

Plug the single end of an rca y audio cable into the line in port of five play 5 and attach the split cable to the corresponding colors of the l r audio outputs on the back of your turntable. Having said that any amp will amplify any electric guitar and obviously an electro acoustic guitar is electric.