| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Acoustic Amps | | Date: | Monday, April 3, 2006 10:17:43 (-0400) | | From: | Brad Harper <bradharper @.....com>
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Jim, another one to consider is the Roland AC-60. Its a very natural
sounding amp in it's price-range (<$500). It's small, very lightweight and
has a good offering of inputs/outputs. The only drawback is that it doesn't
offer a tremendous amount of volume.
How much are you wanting to spend?
-Brad
On 3/31/06, Jim Norman <jim99@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> One of the circles of folks I play with has asked my advice on sound
> reinforcement for small gigs that we sometimes play and I've always leaned
> toward leveraging the inexpensive PA system they already have by adding a
> borrowed mixer to accomodate more mics. This worked well enough in the
> past, but the group needs to buy a mixer if we continue to do this. Two
> of
> the folks in the group own dual input amps and would prefer the other two
> of
> us to buy our own acoustic amps and use them as individual instrument amps
> and PA systems. Here are my questions: are acoustic amps with dual inputs
> really designed to function as both instrument amplifiers and a PA system
> (that is, using the XLR input for a vocal mic). I thought they were
> generally designed so you could use both a mic and a line input to
> reinforce
> an instrument. Do any of you use acoustic amps in this dual-purpose way?
> And have you ever gigged with everybody operating their own dual input
> amps
> as a sound system for small venue gigs? It just seems to me that it would
> be a nightmare trying to balance the sounds coming out of 4 amps,
> especially
> when they are trying to function as both instrument reinforcement and PA
> system.
>
> That said, does anyone have recommendations for acoustic amps, preferably
> on
> the cheaper end of the scale, that work well with miced resonator guitars?
> (I don't currently have an instrument with a pickup.)
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Jim N.
>
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