Still need help after reading the "how to choose" post


dhawkinson
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dhawkinson
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06/30/2010 3:36 pm
Hi All:

I'm a newbie through and through. New to guitars and new to this site. I am on a limited budget and I also don't want to collect gear for the sake of collecting gear. My question is this:

Is there a guitar amp that will work nicely with an Ibanez AEL10E (acoustic-electric) and then later when I move up with a Taylor T3 B (electric)?

I read the post and dowloaded the attachment on how to choose but it still is not clear to me if I am trying for the impossible or not.

I am going for the genres of rock, blues, and jazz (I'd like to sort of synthesize the three) and am not looking for real big volume.
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Razbo
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06/30/2010 4:31 pm
Seems you'll need 2 distinctly different amps, or one that can do both jobs. So IMO you'll need some sort of digital processing to minimize the equipment.

All things being relative, I could suggest a Fender Vibro Champ XD. Nice little 5watt tube amp with digital pre-amp voicing. This includes, among several electric guitar amps, the Fender Acoustasonic, which would be great for your existing guitar.

I've got one, plus a couple 20 & 25 watt SS Peaveys. The Vibro Champ is far superior in my opinion.
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galili
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galili
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07/02/2010 3:33 am
Try and demo the guitar rig which offers you the ability to model multiple amps pedals gates, equalizers pedal reverb, chorus and much more. As a guitaris buying a singlke amp for several hundred dollars is too limiting especially for beginners.

personally i bought a Vox vt-15 for $175.00 and the guitar rig with kontrol pedal interface. Even though the vox has some modeling capabilities (its tubed) i use the Kontrol interface to the guitar rig 95% of the time. With its head phone intercae I can practice in private and i use the L-out and R-out and plug into stero sytem so I can pipe 400 Watts out my main speakers.

Bottom line I think is that unless your playing gigs and jamming with friends laying out a large amout of cash may not be all that practical on a combo amp or a pre-amp cabinet solution.

There are also mobile solutions for lap tops...

Check it out....http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/guitar/guitar-rig-4-pro/
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