Will electric guitar effects applicable to an acoustic guitar?

Question

I have an acoustic guitar with pick-up, so there's a cord that can be connected to a amplifier. But, can i use the electric guitar effects? I'm about to buy, but i want to be sure if it will work. I still don't have enough money to buy an electric guitar.LOL

Answer 1

you can use any effects that you can filter the guitar through, but it will sound different than it might with an electric guitar...the attack, decay and overall sound of an acoustic guitar are very different from an electric....

Answer 2

i think if u pahsed or put distortion on a accoustic guitar it would sound funny.  They have good cheap electric guitars, with amp, cord, picks, and tuner at walmart and hasting book for around 150 bucks, I have one and it plays really well.

Answer 3

An acoustic guitar can be with any guitar effects. The best is the chorus and the flanger. This give expansion to your sound and actually sound like a 12-string under the right settings.

I wouldn't use overdrive because it would cause feedback but, EQ, Boss DS-1 distortion, digital delay is very nice also.

Your choice...your budget :-))

One final note ::: if you plan to use multiple pedals, plug the cleanest one first and the distortion has to be last.

Answer 4

You could use effects made for an electric guitar with your acoustic.  Heck, you could even use bass effects.  However, they DO make effects specifically for acoustic guitar, such as those seen here:

http://www.sweetwater.com/cs--Acoustic_E...

The main difference is that your acoustic is so much more resonant than an electric guitar.  Also, you have much less control over the output tone.  For these reasons, many effects designed for electric guitars will cause you to feed back to the point that it's unusable.  Particularly distortions.

Answer 5

the great thing about music is that there is no wrong way to do things. I have seen some artists get better dirty tone out of an acoustic than i will ever get out out of my electric guitar rig. as long as it is not overdone it will probably work. will you get metal tones? probably not but some really sweet blues or indie tones can probably be had. experiment, thats half the fun of guitar. also, please stay away from wallmart guitars. thats a disaster waiting to happen.

Answer 6

You can plug any effect you want through an acoustic guitar.  There are no rules.

     As far as Left T's answer above...no offense, and again there is no right or wrong way, but the general rule is filters, like wah wah pedals, envelope followers etc..come first in the chain,

followed by compression, because compressors can raise the noise level of everything coming before them so you want them as close to the beginning of the chain as possible,



followed by distortion and overdrive pedals,

  then modulation such as tremelo, chorus, flanger pedals,,,

then a volume pedal,

and last in the chain should be delay and reverb devices.

     I speak from over 45 years of playing.

     For more on effects chaining see the May 2008 issue of Guitar Player magazine.  http://www.guitarplayer.com/

Answer 7

Yes. Just be sure it's not a gain-based effect like:

-Overdrive

-Distortion

-Fuzz

-Boost

-Compression/Sustain

Also, I know you're short on cash, but I wouldn't use an effect on your acoustic unless it is truly a high-quality pedal.

Hope that helps. ^_^