Acoustic/Electric AMp.. whats the difference.?

[dmagelneo]

Hello just like to know why is it not advisable to use an acoustic guitar on an electric amp.. , I heard it will damaged the equipment *amp*/guitar, if I'm wrong , please correct me! and why.. thanks I'm a guitar noob, don't even know how to use a reverb to change the electric amp I bought to an overdrive or so, my sound is always clear with no distortion, theres so many thing on it and I've no idea how to tune the amp.

 

[edyeo123]

From what I know, if you plug in the acoustic guitar to the amp, the tone will not really be that great.

But just to let u know my experience. There was one i plugged my acoustic guitar (it is a low-end custom acoustic) into a SX 10w amp. I wana experiment having a distortion on my acoustic, so i pushed da overdrive button. I played with it for a few minutes, then suddenly the signal was cut off. After that, the pickup did not work anymore...

Hmm, so i think if u wana plug in, it is alright i think.... Just refrain from pressing the distortion/overdrive button.

 

[EugeneSmasher]

Acoustic guitar pickups and electric guitar pickups are quite different so I suppose it is better not to plug an acoustic guitar into an electric guitar amplifier. But from my experience it seems fine, though. Just that the guitar will sound like a bit like an electric guitar.

But most acoustic guitarists don't use amplifiers though. They'd plug it direct into a PA system's mixer by way of a DI box. That's how I do it anyway, an amplifier colours the tone of the guitar and the pickup system and I don't want that happening.