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05-10-2011, 07:00 PM
| | | | What is the least amount of watts I'd need to play along with an acoustic guitar?
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I need to get a small battery powered amp that will be loud enough to be heard with an acoustic |
05-10-2011, 07:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Ballaarat, Victoria, OZ | | | Phil Jones Briefcase. Done. |
05-10-2011, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by vin*tone  Phil Jones Briefcase. Done. | I would get one but thats WAY out of my price budget  |
05-10-2011, 07:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern California | | | I would check out something in the Roland Micro Cube line.
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05-10-2011, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by testing1two I would check out something in the Roland Micro Cube line. | Also out of my price range. Im kinda poor and i need one by the summer |
05-10-2011, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by testing1two I would check out something in the Roland Micro Cube line. | Thanks for the suggestion though  |
05-10-2011, 07:14 PM
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05-10-2011, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Salamon The microcube is like $125 new. what is your budget? | I like in the UK and they're about £180 (at least 200 bucks) My budget is about 70 bucks(ish)  |
05-10-2011, 07:18 PM
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05-10-2011, 07:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: 2k W of the Duwamsh | | | Then you're may have to hope you can find something used. There are a few really small battery powered amps out there, but they are probably not going to do diddly for bass amplification. As to your original question, you could probably get by with about 25 watts. A plug in amp won't work in your situation? The Phil Jones Briefcase is pretty awesome, but way overkill. And expensive. The Microcube would do the job, I suppose.
Good luck.
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05-10-2011, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Salamon You're not going to find anything "better" than the gear you have listed in your profile, I don't think. | I know it wont find anything that sounds great, I just need one thats loud enough to play with a dreadnought, battery powered and doesn't get distorted |
05-10-2011, 07:23 PM
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05-10-2011, 10:03 PM
| | | | Heard a bass run through a karioke 'toy' with cd and a built-in battery. Outdoors. Carvin 5-string bass with fiddle, banjo, and two guitars. Couldn't hear the bass unless I was within 10 feet. That means they all heard it, but no one else did. At same event another bassest used the GK 200 amp through a 1X12 speaker. Sounded very nice. Listened as I moved away and I could both hear and feel it out about 50-75 feet from the cab; again this was outdoors and accoustic instruments were about the same. For the price I'd stay at or above 200 watts, esp. since many accoustic gigs are outdoors. |
05-10-2011, 10:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Carleton County, New Brunswick | | | I'm not sure about the price of them, but I know that Ibanez has a new Battery powered amp series, you could check them out! |
05-10-2011, 10:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: New Zealand | | | Are you talking amplified acoustic guitar or naked? If it's just a guitar you could use any little bass practice amp. I saw some Brazillian buskers with one, running off a car battery so it must be possible to convert one on the cheap.
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05-10-2011, 11:06 PM
|  | Less Ebay, more Mel Bay | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Phoenix, AZ | | | +1 to Downunderwonder. You can annoy the hell out of an acoustic player with a tiny practice amp. Doesn't take much.
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05-10-2011, 11:36 PM
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05-11-2011, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Downunderwonder Are you talking amplified acoustic guitar or naked? If it's just a guitar you could use any little bass practice amp. I saw some Brazillian buskers with one, running off a car battery so it must be possible to convert one on the cheap. | just the acoustic, no amp |
05-11-2011, 10:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: New Zealand | | | Watts are pretty meaningless at the best of times but in playing with an un amped guitar you can forget about them altogether.
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