Acoustic toys.

[Stevie Nature]

Okay, so now I have a sweet acoustic guitar, now I'm looking into getting some toys for it. I'd like to know what you guys use in terms of pedals and such for your acoustics. I'm not really looking to process an awesome sounding guitar, but I'd like a delay, volume pedal, a pedal board and such. Let me know what you guys are using.

[wgc3rd]

Don't be crazy, dude! Let the instrument speak for itself! Get a direct box with the ability to make minor adjustments to tone, maybe an inline tuner, but other than that leave it alone! You spent a good bit of money on a good guitar (hopefully) and that should be enough. My biggest complaint is that the "processed" tone I hear in the monitors (or the house) doesn't sound enough like the naked Taylor I play. Let it sing, baby!

[Stevie Nature]

That's what I'm saying...I don't want to process it. I guess my post might have been a little confusing. I want a volume pedal for when I finger pick. I specifically want one that won't mess with the tone. The delay would be something like what Phil Keggy uses. Like a looper type of deal. I'd probably never use it at church, but it would be sweet to mess with. The pedal board would be one of those cases that you could either velcro or screw pedals to the board and link them all to one power source. I'd never do anything to mess with the tone of my guitar. That would be near sacrilege. :mad: We're definitely on the same page there, brother.

[worshiptrench]

Get a good cable and great active direct box (countryman, etc.).

If you really want to go crazy, blend a great piezo with a sound hole pickup (horizon or otherwise). I have an EMG undersaddle for thickness and K&K western transducers which i blend if I am playing an acoustic setting. For full band I don't mess with it and use the EMG undersaddle. Please note, this tone is more middle beefy than the current "acoustic guitar as a high freq shaker" that things like the Bagg element and other pickups go for. My acoustic tone influence is Ani Difranco if that tells you anything.

The Ernie Ball volume pedal is good but expect the pots to go out on you over time. Also the volume gain isn't smooth over the movement of the pedal but really scales up only over the last 1/3rd of floorboarding it. Other than that it is a steal warrior.

Of course you can go Monte Montgomery or John Butler freaky and run it through either a tubescreamer/compression (Monte) or a Marshall (Butler) for some nuttiness, but you'd have to want that.

Finally, NO CHORUS pedal allowed.

[Stevie Nature]

Right now I'm using a L.R. Baggs Para D.I., which works really well. It gives a lot of flexibility with the tone. I tend to like my guitar with more mids as well. That's actually why I went with a Breedlove over a Taylor. I like Taylors, but for overall tone I don't think you can beat a Breedlove. My guitar has the Dual Element system, which means it has the Element transducer as well as a condenser mic. I have the option to mix between the two. I tend to like the sound of the mic better, but you really can't use it in a full band setting because of feedback.

One of the other reasons I want a volume control besides finger picking is I've seen some that have a tuner out on them. I have a Peterson Strobo Stomp tuner, which is awesome, but because it has "true bypass" it makes a terrible popping noise when you turn it off or on. The tuner out would eliminate this.

I want a pedal board to basically clean it all up. Cords all over the place is a pet peeve of mine.

Beyond that I would just use the delay to sequence some things. Basically, just to mess around with.

Finally, NO CHORUS pedal allowed.

Amen, and amen.

[worshiptheKing]

I kind of like the sound of a chorus pedal. I am a novice guitar player and it kind of dresses up what I am capable of on my own. I was actually fiddling around with a digitech sp200 to day. It was kind of fun tinkering with the different effects, even though it is primarily for an electric.

[Stevie Nature]

I kind of like the sound of a chorus pedal. I am a novice guitar player and it kind of dresses up what I am capable of on my own. I was actually fiddling around with a digitech sp200 to day. It was kind of fun tinkering with the different effects, even though it is primarily for an electric.


Finally, NO CHORUS pedal allowed.

Sorry, bud. The jury has spoken.

[garyhodges]

I second the motion. No Chorus.

It's like a throwback to cheesy 70's ballads.

I hope I haven't offended anyone.