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Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
So true, very good point. A versatile amp covers rafts of ground with any guitar.
What is your most versatile guitar?
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dmatthews
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Yup... speaker type can be a world changer too. Forgot to say that the "P" in P22 is for piezo.
I used to send the piezo to a DI then to PA, and the mag output to my amp. But I can coax a pretty good acoustic sound out of the Kemper with any axe now.
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Jethro Rocker
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That kinda adds an additional acoustic guitar to wharever song. I've only run mine through my amp.
I use the acoustic sim on the G3 effect pedal as well but it's not quite the same.
dmatthews
Ambassador of Birds
Yeah, the sim is a fill in type solution admittedly.
Piezo to DI then PA sounds good, and better than running through my amp. Quite a difference.
We don't do a ton of songs with acoustic requirements so the Kemper solution is easiest for me.
Brian Krashpad
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I have two very different guitars which are very versatile.
The older design is also widely misunderstood/misapplied. Peavey T-60. The tone controls for each pickup are not just tone controls. They are from 0-7 (out of ten). But between 7 and 10, the control gradually splits the humbucker, until at 10 it's actually a single coil! So, a lot of people who keep their tone control all the way up wonder why the humbuckers don't sound thick like humbuckers on their other guitars-- it's because they're playing the guitar in single-coil mode, and at that point it's more like a Telecaster than a Les Paul. Also, when selecting both pickups at once, there's an out-of-phase switch (which I basically never use, but it's available).
The more recent design is a Fender Tex-Mex Telecaster. This "Fat Tele" has a humbucker in the neck, with a 5-way pickup selector, that includes settings with the neckbucker split to a single:
The older design is also widely misunderstood/misapplied. Peavey T-60. The tone controls for each pickup are not just tone controls. They are from 0-7 (out of ten). But between 7 and 10, the control gradually splits the humbucker, until at 10 it's actually a single coil! So, a lot of people who keep their tone control all the way up wonder why the humbuckers don't sound thick like humbuckers on their other guitars-- it's because they're playing the guitar in single-coil mode, and at that point it's more like a Telecaster than a Les Paul. Also, when selecting both pickups at once, there's an out-of-phase switch (which I basically never use, but it's available).
The more recent design is a Fender Tex-Mex Telecaster. This "Fat Tele" has a humbucker in the neck, with a 5-way pickup selector, that includes settings with the neckbucker split to a single:
- Position 1: Bridge
- Position 2: Bridge + Neck Split (parallel)
- Position 3: Bridge + Neck (parallel)
- Position 4: Neck Split
- Position 5: Neck Humbucker
DirtySteve
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Well I see I need to update this thread, things have changed since I made that post. I've sold the Trad and replaced it with a 2018 LP Classic. Most people don't know that the 2018 Classics were built to old school standards, no weight relief and P90s. As far as I know they were the only Classics without weight relief of some kind. It has a 60s neck profile. This is by far the most versatile guitar I have and it quickly became my #1. I put in a SD Custom P90 (with A2 magnet swap) paired with a Lollar neck P90 and it does it all, from the sweet cleans to as metal as I get and it does it all better than anything else I have. I wouldn't trade it for anything!
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