7 Preamps for Your Acoustic Guitar
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PG contributor Tom Butwin highlights 7 preamp options for your acoustic guitar. Wherever you’re looking to plug in your acoustic, these stomps have you covered with a wide range of functionality, sounds, and applications.
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Fishman Platinum Pro EQ: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/zNYMWG
Grace Design ALiX: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/y276r2
LR Baggs Venue DI: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Qy70m6
Orange Acoustic Pedal: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/75Z0by
Radial Acoustic PZ-Pro: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/1rJx6z
Tech 21 Acoustic Fly Rig: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/oqYMAW
Trace Acoustic® Transit™ A Acoustic Pre-amp & Effects Pedal: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Jz7n1v
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0:00 – Intro
0:21 – 3 Preamp Categories
1:37 – LR Baggs Venue DI
3:25 – Fishman Platinum Pro EQ
6:05 – Orange Acoustic Pedal
8:07 – Grace Design ALiX
9:47 – Radial PZ-Pro
12:05 – Trace Acoustic Transit-A
15:02 – Tech 21 Acoustic Fly Rig
17:34 – Recap
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Originally posted by UC5J-hZ4wNf7OlkzIn49LHoQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcgtFwhidzw
Shop the Preamps:
Fishman Platinum Pro EQ: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/zNYMWG
Grace Design ALiX: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/y276r2
LR Baggs Venue DI: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Qy70m6
Orange Acoustic Pedal: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/75Z0by
Radial Acoustic PZ-Pro: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/1rJx6z
Tech 21 Acoustic Fly Rig: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/oqYMAW
Trace Acoustic Transit-A: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Jz7n1v
I play a Breedlove with LR Baggs Anthem, plugged into a Fishman Loudbox mini. It sounds great and is easy to set up.
The amp has an XLR out, is equipped with reverb and chorus.
So basically, I use the Loudbox as my preamp, and it is also my stage monitor.
However, I am putting together a small acoustic pedalboard- first pedal is KR Baggs Align Session – it features a compression/eq control and a “saturation” control. It really helps with the Anthem pickup. I do intend to add a separate EQ, delay, reverb, and maybe a Blues Driver for a touch of grit – I play a lot of slide, on regular guitar and with a Weissenborn.
Great video…BUT…you should have used the SAME guitar on each demo. Even better would have been to begin the video with what the guitar ACTUALLY sounded like with a mic in the room to compare its plugged-in tone etc.
I love LR Baggs… great stuff for most people. But I make a living on Broadway in Nashville with a 90's era Takamine plugged straight into the PA (ok, a Polytune is in the chain). People value a good human voice over a guitar tone. Work on your voice.
Thanks for the video but all I learned from it was I don’t want any of these pedals if it makes my guitar sound that quacky.
IMO, you begin with ah Adeline AD-85 which has a 1/4" jack and a volume/gain control. Mount it on a sweet spot on your guitar, and I think it sounds great out of the box – no piezo quack whatever, and plenty of output into a full on modeler (HX Stomp, GX-10, Ampero 2 stage, whatever…). Then tweak until you get tired, and just want to play. I have the Fishman Aura Pro's mounted in all my Cordoba Flamenco guitars, and a Takamine CT4-DX mounted in my Spanish Flamenco, and the distinctions between IR's are without differences, IMO, since the base sound from the AD-85 is so good.
I spent a lot of money on Aoustic DI's troying to get a good sound from my Barcus-Berry pickups, internal mic's (which always had a boomy sound due to proximity effect that couldn't be dialed out. Then I discovered the Adelines – and all my problems are solved. And I can even due Heavy Metal on a nyulon string guitar (but in that case, I do have to worry about feedback…..
YMMV, of ocurse, and if you have paid for one of these Acoustic simulators, I'm sure you can hear differnces that are important to you
But for $65 for the Adeline (and, well ok, lots of money for the modelers, but look what they do! But you can spend just as much irunning around in rabbit holes trying to compensate for your pickkup when the AD-85 might just work fiine. (there are a couple of others, of course – search on Amazon for "Acoustic transduceer guitar pickups" (and some newer ones I'll have to check out)
Check out the NUX Mighty Space which has models of Acoustic Amps om their effect lists..
None of these rly make the guitar sound rich and “natural”. I would pick none of these cause guitar for $500 dollars would sound the same as guitar for $5000 :/
I've got the Tech 21 Fly Rig Acoustic, the Zoom A3, the NUX Optima Air, the Korg Pandora P4XA (great to stick in a guitar case pocket but 1/4" only), the TC Helicon Play Live Acoustic and the HX Stomp. Each are great for different situations and different players.
Do I need anything to plug into my Fishman artist to improve the sound or will the artist be enough?
Grace Design!
If you've already got a board with reverb, chorus, etc., pedals you really don't need this preamp stuff do you? You'd just be duplicating stuff you already like, have, and use.
I was wondering about pre amps and what they do this explains things brilliantly.Ive got a semi acoustic and just plug it straight in to my NAD hifi amp.
What's the pick up in your acoustic guitar? Is that Martin 0005M?
Fantastic video!
To my ears only one worth buying is the Grace in terms of sound. I’ve owned and quickly sold several of these.
To my ears the only example that doesn't sound like piezo-plastic-crap is the Alix's… I know that the Hi-Fi is a soundboard transducer but in this video it sounds like plastic to me.
I was obsessed with this stuff for years. The main thing is to get rid of that under saddle style piezoelectric pickup. I use a passive KnK mini through a Yamaha AG stomp pedal. No quack. Sure you can avoid the D.i. You dont need a pre amp, when you have an amp.
Are you interested in testing the AZOR effect? I can give it to you for free
you spent 99% of the video talking and still doesn't mention which ones are analog and which ones are digital, I'm kind of impressed
Toured with a bluegrass band. Tried all of these. Hands down it’s the red eye all days everyday. The most natural for fiddle or guitar.
There’s a lot of discussion on various media, talking about the effect of running an acoustic guitar with a pick up system, into an electric guitar amplifier.
The suggestion is that an acoustic guitar sound thin, and basically not satisfactory.
Most commentator will tell you that an acoustic guitar sounds better, when amplified through an acoustic amplifier.
So, the question that comes to mind; what happens when you place a pedal, for example, a DI, or an EQ between the acoustic guitar and an electric guitar amp?
Acoustic preamps are like rollerblades, your parents don’t like you for a reason, that reason is you, Jose
What a waste of money
Just ordered something called a Caline CP-40, because it was cheapo….but overlooked the fact that it doesn't have the 9v battery inside like my old Baggs DI,….so i may have slipped up……
Showing just one setting with 2 seconds sound demo is not enough for some.
All of them are, essentially, one channel, one setting. Doesn't anyone make a preamp that allows for more than one sort of instrument?
I have active instruments, which have specific output and EQ needs. I have passive instruments, which have specific output and EQ needs. The passive all have K&K pickups, which means I need to roll off a bit of top end and they have a lower output. The active pickup instruments have different output and EQ needs.
No one seems to make a preamp like that.
I use the Grace Alix, fantastic
Where is Tonedexter?
Great video. Thanks for making it.
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And yet the Boss G-E7 puts them all to shame.