5F6-A
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This is the story so far guys... I have had my acoustic guitar at my parents' place in Spain for about 4 years now. This year I payed them a visit and I felt like playing it. I opened the hard case, strummed a few chords acoustically and fell in love with it again... the strings were a bit old but after I put a fresh set of Newtone strings (BTW, if you can find them they are highly recommended!) the guitar came back to life and rang beautifully! I couldn't bear the thought of leaving it behind again so I payed the airline the required extra dough and I took it with me.
I'm home today... Taken it out the case and it looks, plays, sounds and smells heavenly. Great!!
I haven't mentioned that the guitar has an active imix preamp (LR Baggs) which controls the two pickups installed in the guitar: an M1 and ibeam. I had this setup installed a few years back.
I don't have an acoustic amp or a PA system at home so I plugged it in a Marshall solid state bass amp set flat ... the tone was terrible: weak, boxy, quiet... not at all like I remembered it. Tried it through a bassman type amp (valves): same result: rubbish tone. I changed the battery to a fresh one with the same result.
I'm not happy at all. Is it that I need to plug it in a bigger PA system / acoustic amp to get it to sound right? At the moment I'm right annoyed and disappointed.
Any help?!!!
I'm home today... Taken it out the case and it looks, plays, sounds and smells heavenly. Great!!
I haven't mentioned that the guitar has an active imix preamp (LR Baggs) which controls the two pickups installed in the guitar: an M1 and ibeam. I had this setup installed a few years back.
I don't have an acoustic amp or a PA system at home so I plugged it in a Marshall solid state bass amp set flat ... the tone was terrible: weak, boxy, quiet... not at all like I remembered it. Tried it through a bassman type amp (valves): same result: rubbish tone. I changed the battery to a fresh one with the same result.
I'm not happy at all. Is it that I need to plug it in a bigger PA system / acoustic amp to get it to sound right? At the moment I'm right annoyed and disappointed.
Any help?!!!
