Question About Guitars????

Im thinking of buying a guitar to get that real guitar sound that ive realized no synth can reproduce. Im thinking about getting an acoustic guitar but that means i would have to buy a mic to record it right?? I wanna record the guitar loops into my mpc to play along with the sequences..

I also read about acoustic/electric guitars, would it be better to get one of these and could I just plug this type into my mpc since it uses 1/4 inch plugs?? Or would i still need a amp for it... And to the owners of acoustic/electric guitars, when it is pluged in does it still have the acoustic sound or is it electric when plugged in??

The acoustic/electric usually still sound acoustic when plugged in. You won't need a mic. They are more expensive though.

thanks for the reply man, so how do u get it to sound electric when needed??? Is it the amp that does it ...

You can also get a regular acoustic, and just buy one of those attachable pickups.

colonyrecords wrote:thanks for the reply man, so how do u get it to sound electric when needed??? Is it the amp that does it ...

dunno if you can get an acoustic guitar to ever have a heavy electric guitar sound even if its an acoustic/electric or whateva. never thought bout it and im suddenly curious.... who got one?

no acoustic will ever sound like an electric, and vice versa. It's down to physics basically. The acoustic guitar amplifies the tone by, well being a box basically, and the electric guitar is just a flat piece of wood with strings whose tone needs to be registered by the pickups and amplified.

listen to nirvana unplugged, nice sound but neither sounding electric or acoustic

To people who own acoustic/electric guitars, which brands are good ones?? cuz i dont know much about buying guitars.

I have a Yamaha acoustic/electric that I like a lot. Yamaha makes very decent acoustics as well. Fender makes a decent A/E thats not too expensive. Stay away from the ultra cheap boxes . You can get something really nice for $300
It kinda depends on what sound youre trying to get and your skill level.The best guitars are Martin, Gibson, Guild, Taylor etc but if youre just a beginner I think Yamaha is a good bet. If youre thinking of electric, you can't go wrong with the Fender Stratocaster. It can be made to sound somewhat acoustic and it is great for almost any kind of music. Good Luck

skalawa wrote:listen to nirvana unplugged, nice sound but neither sounding electric or acoustic

it sounds electric to me, but i know they used electric acoustics. maybe it's the way the session was recorded and mixed? you know they had to give it that grungy feel. the bass stood out to me, and i guess it's cause i've never heard an acoustic bass recorded plus Krist played with a pick. it sounds like a weird idea running distortion through an acoustic electric but i think Kurt did it for The Man Who Sold The World. i gotta watch that thing, i only hear it.

To make an acoustic guitar sound 'electric' (by this I assume you mean distorted?) you can use a soundhole type pickup and run the signal through either an amp or effects boxes. In essence this *is* now an electric guitar since it produces sound on the same principles: The metal string vibrates near a magnet inducing a current in the metal windings around the magnet. The resulting AC signal is exactly the same as it would be with that pickup in a solidbody electric guitar.

One of those units (software or hardware) that simulates loads of different classic amp & speaker combinations should give you all kinds of electric sounds from a steel string acoustic with a pickup.

acoustic guitar through distortion or overdrive=

If you have a computer with a decent soundcard, you can get a pretty good acoutic guitarsound with plug-ins.
I use this:
http://www.musiclab.com/products/realgtr_info.htm
It won't fool a guitarist, but used in a track it sounds pretty damn good to me.