Good Acoustic Guitar Amp?

[woodpile]

I know some of you guys are boxers and wanted to get some ideas on a good acoustic amp for small room type gigs (say 60-100 watts?). Need it to work for vocals too. The ones I've seen that look interesting have a channel for guitar and one for a mike with effects and EQ on both channels. Speaker sizes are all over the board. Seems that two speakers and a tweeter would work better than one. Would be good to be fairly light and compact. Whatcha know?

[elduave]

All together now...

[woodpile]

All together now...

Haven't heard of that brand.......must be a chorus amp

Forgot to mention I ran a search first on "acoustic amps" but didn't see anything recent.

[tomteriffic]

I don't use one myself, even though I do a lot of acoustic and/or Duotone Custom stuff. I either go direct or have a "regular " amp tweaked up to sound passable on both acoustic and electric.

The one's I've heard that have impressed me have been the SWR Blonde and the Fishman stuff, the bigger the better on the last one there. I've also heard the biggest Roland, but it was for an archtop jazzer thing. It sounded very natural but was a bit short on controls.

For whatever reason, it seems that 50 acoustic amp watts aren't nearly as loud as 50 Marshall/Fender/Whatever watts. It's something to keep in mind.

[elduave]

I'm always beating the SWR drum when this topic comes up. :-)

[Artie]

SWR Cali Blonde is great. I've even used it as a passable bass amp.

[cmatthes]

Ditto on the SWR Cali Blonde.

Elduave turned me on to those, and I haven't come across anything I like better. I've also used it as a bass amp for acoustic gigs and lower-volume, small room stuff.

[currypowder]

There's a SWR Cali Blonde II over at the gear page for $550. Don't know if that's a good price or not, just remembered running across it:

http://thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=1038226&highlight=california

Let me know if you're interested and not a member over there and I'll get the guy's e-mail.

[jwhitcomb3]

I tried out the new Fender Acoustisonic 150 and was impressed. Loud, clean, light, tilts back, can handle a guitar and mic at the same time, and has decent effects and even some modeling.

[django49]

Found an older Fender Acoustasonic with the larger speakers, one side mounted, and SFX. I THINK these originals were a joint development with the old Groove Tube amp folks. Gives a "surround" sound. Matched with a DTAR Mama Bear (Digital acoustic guitar preamp, a joint deal between Rick Turner and Seymour Duncan) you can really tune in different "types" of acoustic sounds off the piezo or other output......Pretty versatile......Use that setup for a piezo-type and a regular amp for the mag output (like on the Duotone) and you can cover a lot of bases. The concept is that you can "model" the sound anywhere from an old parlor guitar to various classic Gibsons, Martin and even archtops....If using a piezo on a solid body, rather than a straight out acoustic box, you can fine tune the sound to make it "more acoustic or natural". You can also blend in the modeled sound with the actual sound output of the guitar to get your own sound "mix.

Fun stuff to play with.....

The amp does have a mike input as well.

[woodpile]

Thanks for the replys guys. I was checking in to the SWR and ran across this from Acoustic that seems to get good reviews and is available in the low 300's (really would like to stay in that range if possible). Its and AG60 with two channels that both have independant EQ and effects. Anybody have any experience with these?

[LostArt]

genz benz

[coolfeel]

Definately Genz Benz - smokes any SWR I have ever played through - including the Blonde