What pedals do you guys use with your acoustics?

Modern Saint said:
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"Acoustic" is a retronym. Before electric guitars there were many different kinds of guitars. But no acoustic guitars. "Acoustic" in this context defines a guitar as not able to be amplified. Therefore, all guitars with electronics become electric guitars.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
Therefore, all guitars with electronics become electric guitars.
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electric guitar
noun
a guitar equipped with electric or magnetic pickups that permit its sound to be amplified and fed to a loudspeaker.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical impulses. The most common guitar pickup uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker. Since the output of an electric guitar is an electric signal, the signal may easily be altered using electronic circuits to add "color" to the sound. Often the signal is modified using effects such as reverb and distortion..
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only acoustic means to transmit the strings' vibrational energy to the air in order to produce a sound. Acoustic means not electric or not using electric impulses. The sound waves or an acoustic guitar are directed through the diaphragm of the guitar creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to amplify the vibrations of the string.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_guitar
 
Modern Saint said:
Not if the " vibrational energy to the air in order to produce a sound" is present.
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Solidbody instruments produce vibrational energy too. We use an electrical system to convert and amplify that energy and bring it to a larger audience. Just like mounting a pickup to an "acoustic" guitar, thereby transforming it into an electric instrument.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
Solidbody instruments produce vibrational energy too. We use an electrical system to convert and amplify that energy and bring it to a larger audience. Just like mounting a pickup to an "acoustic" guitar, thereby transforming it into an electric instrument.
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The sound waves or an acoustic guitar are directed through the diaphragm of the guitar creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to amplify the vibrations of the string
 
Modern Saint said:
The sound waves or an acoustic guitar are directed through the diaphragm of the guitar creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to amplify the vibrations of the string
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Sure. But when that's no longer necessary because of added amplification, is it still an acoustic instrument? Hollowbody jazz guitars were once acoustic instruments. No longer. They are electric.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
Sure. But when that's no longer necessary because of added amplification, is it still an acoustic instrument? Hollowbody jazz guitars were once acoustic instruments. No longer. They are electric.
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The sound that is created is still acoustic.

Now regarding your original statement...

"Acoustic" in this context defines a guitar as not able to be amplified.
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If an "acoustic guitar" has a microphone in front of it, is it now an electric guitar as well? The acoustic guitar we are speaking of does not have onboard electronics.

Regarding your statement....

Therefore, all guitars with electronics become electric guitars.
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Even if a Piezoelectric pickup was added to an acoustic guitar, the origin of the sound is still acoustic. If the pickup was used to assist in the amplification, the energy created by the vibrations are still acoustic.

Piezoelectric pickups
Many semi-acoustic and acoustic guitars, and some electric guitars and basses, have been fitted with piezoelectric pickups instead of, or in addition to, magnetic pickups.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezo_pickup

Now if you said that the Acoustic guitar had a magnetic pickup (non-piezo) under the strings, yes electric - well partially. It would then be electro acoustic.
 
All sound is acoustic, Randy. It doesn't matter how the sound is generated. That it is a sound makes it acoustic because acoustics is the study of sound.

Once you amplify that sound through the use of an electrical pickup system, it is now electric instrument. It doesn't matter what kind of pickup. It's electric.

"Acoustic guitar" is a misnomer. It's just a guitar.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
How else do you explain the wires and amplification?
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