How To Enhance Your Acoustic Guitar Sound Live - Get Your Acoustic Guitar Sounding Pro At Your Gigs!
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- In this video, Meg is taking a look at how you can enhance your acoustic guitar sound whilst you are playing live. Sharing some useful tips as well as the all important sound demos to put some of these tips and tricks to the test!
When it comes to acoustic guitar tone, and guitar tone in general, it is often a search for the perfect sound. Within this video Meg shares some of her favourite tools from gigging live over the years. From using an acoustic amp, to working with EQ and preamp pedals, acoustic guitar pedal boards and different playing techniques.
There is so much we can do to work with and enhance our sound particularly if we are gigging often. Why not try building your own pedal board with Reverb, Delay, Chorus or even a looper pedal? This can take your sound from a very thin sounding pickup to a impressive and exciting tone.
Maybe an acoustic amp might be the answer for you? With a huge range of acoustic guitar amplifiers to choose from today which include so many exciting on board features including acoustic enhancements, on baord loopers and built in vocal harmony. We highly recommend heading down to your local PMT store to try out all of these awesome options yourself!
Shop the awesome products featured in this video:
Boss Acoustic Singer Live Amp - bit.ly/3Nkzq2j
Strymon Blue Sky Reverb - bit.ly/3NHuq9b
Strymon Timeline Delay - bit.ly/3Cpbeqv
MXR Bass Preamp - bit.ly/3Nk6lnx
Big Top FX Juggler Mini Reverb - bit.ly/3PqISnj
Big Top FX Trapeze Mini Delay - bit.ly/42OC0U5
Electro Harmonix Oceans 11 Reverb - bit.ly/3pjazE6
Fender Marine Layer Reverb - bit.ly/3Nna3N9
00:00 Intro
02:18 Guitar Tone for Acoustic
03:46 Acoustic Guitar Amps
07:22 Playing Demo
09:50 Preamp/ EQ Pedals
12:22 MXR Bass Preamp
13:21 Playing Demo
14:16 Acoustic Pedal Boards
16:49 Demo - Megs Board
18:30 Demo - Alternative Board
20:13 Playing Techniques
21:01 Acoustic Pickups
22:34 Multiple Guitars
24:05 Outro
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The guitar is a tactile instrument.You’re using the flesh of your hands to interact with it, and regardless of everything else you use, the sound you make comes from you. Every guitarist sounds different, and that’s because every guitarist is different. That’s the beautiful thing about playing the instrument
Oddly, last night my daughter was practising in the garden for an outdoor gig this Saturday. She has not gigged in years, but previously just plugged into the venue's PA. This started with the 2 channels one her own Bose PA. Not happy with the guitar sound, we plugged the accoustic guitar into my Boss Katana. It has an accoustic setting, infinite, sound & effect tweaks plus the choice of the 25 or 50 watts. Super solution, very happy, Smack Inn Whitstable here we come.
This is so good. I only started learning how to play the guitar 6 weeks ago & I'm documenting my entire learning journey on here so this was super motivational!
Great video! I’ve tried many acoustic preamp pedals over the years (Boss AD2, NuX Optima Air, Zoom A3, LR Baggs Session DI, Fishman AFX Pro EQ Mini, Animals Firewood Acoustic DI, Orange Acoustic Pre TC). I like them all, for certain applications, but the Orange Acoustic Pre TC produces the best sounds I’ve heard. Of course, it’s by far the most expensive unit, and it’s no longer in production. Silver medal goes to the Zoom A3, which has also been discontinued. It is inexpensive and packed with so many features (effects, boost, tuner, mic input, stereo outs, DI out). Bronze goes to the LR Baggs Session DI, which makes all of my guitars sound great through Bose PAs.
Having a Bass Pre-Amp is such a great idea, definitely going to be an add on my acoustic board. Right next to my Reverb and Delay. As always, love the playing. Thank you, Megan.
Very Cool, Thankyou. Stunning Guitar and Playing. Awesome Tips. Cheers
Using a compressor will help immensely in tightening up and giving a more unified sound
Lots of awesome info. Awesome playing as always Meg🎸🎸🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thanks Jackie! 😀🤘
There are a multitude of options available right now that are quite effective at achieving a sound I like from my acoustic guitar through the FOH system. You've featured several here. But in my 43 years of experience as a performing musician and sound technician, getting a good acoustic sound to the audience is not the hardest task. By far, the most difficult challenge, typically, is to get the acoustic player enough volume in his or her monitor to facilitate a comfortable, enjoyable playing experience.
Sure, IEM's solve that problem. And when playing in a near silent venue where the audience is there to hear you specifically or maybe in a small coffee house, feedback is much easier to eliminate.
But it's the bar gigs or gigs where you're providing background music for an event that begin to be challenging for a solo performer who runs his or her sound from stage and uses a monitor wedge. Often, background chatter or noise is quite loud, requiring more volume just to be heard and to hear yourself play. Feedback begins to become a problem.
I use a wedge for a multitude of reasons, the main one being that with IEM's, I feel so detached from the audience and my surroundings. So much so that the distraction even affects my balance, my vision, and my ability to focus clearly on the many details of a good solo performance.
I would love to learn tips, tricks, and approaches to this challenge that have proven successful for seasoned performers watching this video.
The EHX Bass9 pedal was a game changer. I use it to sculpt the bass end of the spectrum. Much better than the octave pedal solution.
Very informative video! What are your thoughts on multi-effect acoustic pedals, like the Zoom A1 Four, Boss VE-8 or Boss AD-10?
Great video, thank you!
What tuning were you using on the guitar and what were the open chords you were playing in the intro? Sounded great!
I exclusively play electric but I do own 3 or 4 acoustic guitars as thats what I learned on so many years ago. Was thinking about trying out acoustic sets and this video gave me a great starting point in terms of amplification. (Was all good, but I'm a start small). Thank you.
Awesome! Glad to have inspired you to have a look at acoustic amplification. Its a fun world! 🤘
I use the fender marine layer fir both acoustic and electric guitar. Sounds very natural compared to a boss rv6
This video was very helpful. I gig finger style with a new yorker size guitar and am trying to find a way to get a larger sound. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I'm curious to know if you have tried the Tonewood Amp with your acoustic guitar? I saw a video with Mike Dawes, but curious what your thoughts are. It seems like a pretty impressive gadget.
Probably the most important is to have installed in your Guitar a Multi signal Blend style preamp with Mic + UnderBridge Transducers + Magnetic , probably the most amazing natural sound you can get from blending those 3
I’m fortunate to have a Kemper. That, together with Bert Meulendijk’s acoustic profile pack, and sometimes a modulated reverb (shimmer, crystal etc.) and my Taylor and Alvarez guitars sound great.
Kempers are awesome. That sounds like a fine set up you've got! 😍
Awesome! Was wondering what they had out there for acoustic profiles as I also have a Kemper. Thanks for sharing!
@@titorock21 Only a pleasure. Bert Meulendijk’s acoustic profiles are the best out there, in my opinion. Have a look on his website. Each type of profile is demoed, very accurately.
Im starting to build a pedalboard for my acoustic guitar. I already have an acoustic amp and a compressors and I was going to get a 7 band eq or a preamp pedal. What would you recommend to get first? My amp obviously has a preamp but it has only a bass and treble control. I wanted to get more control with the eq pedal but I dont know if I should get a preamp first
Could you explane the pedals order with the mxr preamp? I have one, but I don't know the best order with other pedals. Thank you
Bonjour.
J'ai une question !!!
J'ai une guitare electro acoustique ( yamaha) . Comme le piezzo et le son du piezzo n'est pas terrible pour l-adoucir je passe par une pedale BBE MAXIMISER ACOUSTIMAX.
Existe t il une autre pedale plus efficace que le BBE pour changer et d'avantage adoucir le son ?
D'autre part, je n'utilise que trois pedales pour ma guitare, une BBE puis une pedale NUX( modelisation) puis une CLOUDBURST ( strymon).
Est ce un bon choix ? Que puis rajouté comme pedale qui compléterais, ou cela est suffisant.
J'aimerais avoir votre avis.
Je vous remercie par avance.
Le bonjour de France.
I have a boss gt3 foot pedal cani plug my accustic guitar into it with out blowing it up xx
Is an acoustic preamp pedal the same as an acoustic guitar with a built in eq ?
Might try my J-45 through the pre amp of my Korg sdd 3000.
Anyone else tried this yet?
Can you do more acoustic finger style with the amplifier??
Love the guitar sound it’s bad ass and I never say that
First thing you should always do with a Taylor is swap out the Expression system. Such a poor system on expensive guitars. I put LR Baggs Anthem SL in mine and its ace. Fishman Presys Blend in my Sigma and a Rare Earth Blend in my Takamine.
My band mate swapped his ES1 out for a Baggs Anthem, I swapped my ES2 out for the K&K Trinity but I have a 2011 Grabd Symphony with an ES1 & I liked it from the jump but as the guitar has opened up I've grown to like it even more. It's weird though cause I hear ES1's that I think sound awful & ES2's that I think sound nice. It's all so situational when you're an acoustic nerd chasing down tone perfection.
Ok, Thank you. Now I need to go buy preamp... but first, I need to learn how to play guitar. Wait a minute... I need to go and buy guitar.
Love your playing puts me to shame. Also shame on me for the fist thing I thought when I looked at your channel name PMT-V suddenly saw Drax from gardians saying metaphor lol