acoustic amp = good jazz amp??

[lemongonggong]

Just curious here...

Does a acoustic guitar amp make a good electric guitar amp for jazz??

Does a acoustic guitar amp make a good electic guitar amp for pedals like the jc120??

 

[keithC]

hmm jazz is a style. not a sound..

 

[THOA]

I don't know if this is true, but I remembered reading somewhere that jazz musicians use mainly solidstate amps as opposed to tube amps cos of the general preference for it's "colder", uncoloured sound (Gah! Wish I can remember my source ) I thought That was the reason for your choice of amp type from the previous thread you posted.

Of course I must emphasize the "preference" part, as opposed to it being as an "absolute truth". So I guess your own preference would dictate whether you deem acoustic amps as worthy jazz amps or not.

I myself though have not tried such electric guitar to acoustic amp set up. Am curious to know how different it is or whether if it is even possible or wise to do such in the first place...

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

different amp having its own voicing for the kinda instrument its meant for.

while plugging different instrument into different amp will work(as long mono plug and instrument cable, it shud work.), but how good it sound, perhaps will have to depend on individual preference to sound and how can the sound be tweaked to get a suitable "working" sound

and in this case, if "jazz sound" is the sound being sought after, what is the characteristic of this "jazz sound" would the threadstarter be looking at? Perhaps a more indepth explanation is needed to have a better and detailed discussion

each instrument has its own signal occupying certain frequency range. The amps for the right instrument is supposed to cater to this frequency range for best result.

For different instrument, the signal frequency occupy a wide range wheras some over a shorter range. Initerchanging amps/instrument, some amp might/might not be able to cater to certain frequency range of the instrument, the sound might changed. Goot or bad that depends on individual.

 

[Phil]

I've always associated a 'jazz' tone as one that is dark and subtle. Sort of like when you roll off the treble on your guitar's tone knob.

Is that what you are looking for? In general, I mean. If it is, then I'd say that there are many other good, quality amps that can provide you with such a tone, and that there's no particular need to specifically use an acoustic amp.

 

[lemongonggong]

Thank you for your response..

THOA: i typo error. wrote "another" to "any". and yes, i heart solid-state cos of its sound.

PatheinRaindropMoe: the jazz sound i m after is very close to jim hall's sound..but teeny bit darker.

phil: if getting my jazz sound is possible using acoustic amp, it would be better for me cos i would need to only need to get one acoustic amp for both my electric guitar and my classical guitar.

Btw, the amp is for me. the other one which is in another thread is for the jazz band.

 

[KayCee]

If there's even such a think as a traditional jazz tone I think they can be divided into 2 main categories:

1) Floating humbucker, solid top arched top thru' acoustic amp

2) ES175 style thru' electric amp with plenty of clean headroom

With these 2 basic setups and the right EQ a good working jazz sound is easily achievable. 1) is more for acoustic jazz fingerstyles players who want to hear more 'string' sound and 2) will get the dark wooly amplified trio jazz tone.

The rest is practice and feel

Kc

 

[Impromptu]

Just curious here...

Does a acoustic guitar amp make a good electric guitar amp for jazz??

easy to answer, right?
which jazz musician plug electric guitar to an acoustic amp? and if you can find any, do you like their sound?