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Post subject: With pedals, can a PA substitute for an electric amp?
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 9:46 pm
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If a player had a good digital modelling gizmo and/or a few effects pedals running into a clean clear PA system, would an electric guitar sound drastically different than using a dedicated electric guitar amplifier?

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Post subject: Re: With pedals, can a PA substitute for an electric amp?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2016 1:38 am
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Widows Son wrote:
into a clean clear PA system, would an electric guitar sound drastically different than using a dedicated electric guitar amplifier?


Yes, this do not mean you won't like the sound.
Some PA system may sound better than some low cost amp with electric guitar.

Each type of amplifier is built to reproduce and color the sound of the instrument you want to plug in.
Microphone or electric guitar are two different thing.
A PA system do not use same components values than a electric guitar amp.
The speakers are different .


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Post subject: Re: With pedals, can a PA substitute for an electric amp?
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 7:21 am
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Widows Son wrote:
If a player had a good digital modelling gizmo and/or a few effects pedals running into a clean clear PA system, would an electric guitar sound drastically different than using a dedicated electric guitar amplifier?

No. That's the point of modelling - to make it sound as close as possible to the original.
I use the XLR line-outs on my Mustang into a PA all the time (i.e I use the amp as a "digital modelling gizmo"). It sounds different, but not drastically different. And quite good.


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Post subject: Re: With pedals, can a PA substitute for an electric amp?
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 6:39 pm
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Your question begs the philosophical question "What does an electric guitar sound like?" If you don't plug it into anything, it's not really all that impressive.

And EVERYTHING you plug it into changes the sound. A guitar amp, a guitar amp simulator, or a bare PA system each affect the sound. Many people like their guitar amp sound so much they put a microphone in front of it to feed to the sound system. Others plug the amp's output into the sound system. Others use guitar amp simulators. Then there are effects pedals between the guitar and the guitar amp (or simulator, or maybe even straight into the sound system with no simulator).

Solid body, hollow body, semi-hollow body, hum bucker or single coil pickups. An electric guitar's sound is the result of everything between the pick and the hall speakers. With so many variables, you experiment and decide what you like. There is no right way to do this, unless you already know what sound you want and what components have historically been used to create that specific sound. Even in that case, you are using the results of somebody else's experiments.

So, go experiment.


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Post subject: Re: With pedals, can a PA substitute for an electric amp?
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 6:10 am
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ChrisH1 wrote:
I use the XLR line-outs on my Mustang into a PA all the time (i.e I use the amp as a "digital modelling gizmo"). It sounds different, but not drastically different. And quite good.

You just answered your own question! :lol:


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