acoustic guitar EQ

malevolentsparkle · Post by **malevolentsparkle** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:27 am

this has been bothering me for a while.
How come, even with an acoustic amp, you have to scoop the mids a whole lot on an acoustic guitar to get anything that sounds like an acoustic? why do acoustic pickups put out so much mids when the guitar doesnt?

this just seems stupid, if acoustic tone is low in the mids, what posseses pickup manufactures to make mid heavy pups? am i missing something here?

malevolentsparkle · Post by **malevolentsparkle** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:37 pm

so nobody knows?

simon_ishtar · Post by **simon_ishtar** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:46 pm

AS I understand it a piezo is what it is, a magnetic piece of rock with fairly even freq response. I like a certain amount of mid on an acoustic but will try to notch the freqs that feed back. Could be the fault of myself and my ilk liking some mids?

malevolentsparkle · Post by **malevolentsparkle** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:14 pm

AS I understand it a piezo is what it is, a magnetic piece of rock with fairly even freq response

but if that was the case then it would sound more or less the same as unamplified, but it clearly doesnt.

1964 · Post by **1964** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:26 pm

And some guys reckon acoustic (piezo) pickups are rather transparent in their quackiness!

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:51 pm

I struggle with my Electro acoustic sound. It really doesn't quite sound the money to me. I got a Behringer DI box that sourt of kills the sound more. But I find the little Behringer 3 channel mixer gets alot better results. But I would will to get something with more Eq options on it.