Hello,

I just bought my first electric-acoustic guitar today, a Fender Stratacoustic!

What I was wondering was what electric guitar accessories are not compatible with acoustic-electrics? For clarification let me explain further:

We were at Guitar Center trying out the Stratacoustic and my father plugged it into a big Fender amp and there was quite a bit of noise!! (feedback and such) The GC sales associate came over about 5 seconds too late (I had already been scared to death) and told us that you can't plug acoustic-electrics into electric guitar amps. But I've been reading on the internet and people have said that as long as you turn off the effects and gain you can use an electric guitar amp for your acoustic guitar. So what do you all think?

Also, he said that if you try to put 9's on the Stratacoustic you will probably get buzz. The stock strings are 11's and I was thinking about replacing them with smaller strings... What do you all think??

Let me know your thoughts!! Thanks!

Here's a picture, I know it's a stock picture, but it's completely identical to mine:

i recently got my first acoustic as well! (a fender t-bucket 300CE) it's also acoustic-electric. i don't have an acoustic amp either, so i plugged it into my tube amp, a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. it worked just fine. no noise. i even used my distortion pedal with it, and it sounds better distorted than my Squier. so, i don't know what problem you're having. was it a solid body amp, maybe? i wonder if that would affect it.

nice guitar btw.

-Jake

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ok if this is your first guitar, i would find a better suited amp for what your doing, learning. fender make a nice amp thats taylor made for an acoustic
guitar and so does roland.
roland has a cube amp that has some nice built in effects that would do you just fine until you learn enough to play a few tunes and to see if your gonna stick with playing, or even stick with acoustic guitar.
its better to match your amp to the guitar in the begining.
later on then you can start mixing and matching to get whatever
sound/tone your trying to achieve.

Congrats.

Amp and guitar should match as closely as possible. Suggest you ask at the store(s), try a few. The Fender Acoustasonic Junior is a sure winner.

11s or 12s to drive the instrument top and piezo pickup. Get a great setup, too.

Acoustic amps are like PA systems designed to give the clean acoustic sound, much like playing your acoustic into a Mic and PA system itself. You get the true natural sounds which is what acoustic play is all about. The sound board nuances!!!!

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Thanks for the replies!

Like I said, I've read online and some people said that you could use a normal electric guitar amp with the effects and gain turned off. Could I use my Fender SP-10 amp with my Stratacoustic? I also have a Epiphone 25W amp, but I don't really want to try it on that....

Let me know, thanks!!

honestly, you can use any amp you have.

Hi GTG I think that the Guitar Center guy was trying to make an amp sale as well.You can plug your Stratacoustic into any amp or PA as long as you keep the volume at a decent level or use a rubber sound hole plug.You would have to modify a plug or make one of your own as the sound hole is a squished circle.I use D'Addario 10-46 strings with a plain 17 G string and find them just fine,I even tried 8-38s on mine once but they proved to be too light for an acoustic.I use a touch of reverb and occasionally tremolo with my Stratacoustic with no ill effects however I've never tried any foot pedals but I imagine that distortion,fuzz or an overdrive pedal may prove to be problematic.I usually use my Blues Jr. or my Vox Pathfinder for the Stratacoustic but I've also used through my Vox AD120VTH but turned down to the 30 or 15 W setting.The D'Addario sets that should work for you are : ESXL125-.009,.011,.016,.026,.036,.046 Super Light Top/Reg. Bottom or EXL110-.010,.013,.017,.026,.036,.046 Regular Light Gauge and both have plain 3rd strings.

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Yep, that sounds about right. The bottom line is any amp will work if you keep it clean enough. Congrats on the sweet new guitar--enjoy!

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

My daughter is running an acoustic electric and a Strat. through a Fender Frontman 25R. Sounds great, no feedback or problems.

i'm with guitslinger on this one... and anybodye else who's of the opinion that you can use any guitar with any amp.
just keep playing with the knobs 'til it sounds the way you want it to. and don't be afraid to crank up the gain a little. a little crunch never hurt anybody. the low and mid frequencies are usually the culprits when it comes to feedback. start your eq knobs at zero and work your way up.
nice axe... congrats!

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I really wouldn't go with anything lighter than .10s on an acoustic, and I'm not just saying that because I like my strings on the heavy side. Strings feel different on an acoustic guitar, and an acoustic guitar also plays differently. .11s are considered light on an acoustic guitar, with anything up to .13s being perfectly normal. In fact, in the guitar store where I work we don't even carry .9s for acoustic.

Aside from that, congrats on the new guitar!

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Well, the amp at GC definitely freaked out when I plugged in the Stratacoustic -- there was A LOT of buzz and feedback. The whole store felt like it was shaking! Then again, the effects knobs were turned every which way and the volume knob was turned too....