Can I Use Electric Guitar Effects Pedals With An Acoustic? 

That shimmer @ 35:42 blasted me straight into a Resident Evil typewriter room

This is wonderfully informative. I’ve played guitar for many years but never fully understood what all the different pedals actually do. It’s great to have them explained and demonstrated. Thanks so much for creating this 🙂👌🏽

Not sure why this isn't being mentioned... the MXR Phaser, which I used 40 years ago with an electric and Marshall stack (a la debut VH album), sounds superb on the Taylor acoustic. Wow.

Thank you, both for the demo of these pedals. I use a Pitch Fork with my electric guitar but now I’m going to add it to my acoustic.

I use my Tumnus Deluxe, Boss EQ-200, & Ego compressor with electric, acoustic, and bass. Those are some of the most versatile pedals ever. Just dial back the gain/sustain/attack pots on acoustic.

If you use stereo combo such as Roland JC40 or Roland Mobile Cube, you could split the signal before effects and send clean sound to one side and sound processed through effects (so called “wet sound”) to the other side. With mono combo you could use parallel mixer pedal to blend small portion of “wet sound” into (behind) full volume of your clean sound. With stereo combo you could even try stereo effect pedals (and even blend them with stereo parallel mixer pedal back to clean sound if you split the signal before).

A lot depends on the source of your amplified sound. Guitarists like Mike Dawes and Jon Gomm use three sources: an internal mic, a piezo and a magnetic sound hole pickup. Both run the more exotic effects through the mag only. Both Dawes and Gomm rely heavily on percussive techniques such hitting the body and have found that an octave pedal will try to find the octave of them slapping the body, which sounds really bad. Both artists run a fairly conservative chain on the mic and piezo (reverb, delay, compression). Also, their sound is a combination of clean acoustic and electrified sounds.

I've been doing this for a while with my 6 and 12 string guitars... It forces you to learn how to compress acoustic dynamics up front to get the best tracking and response from your effect pedals...

Really interesting. Particularly the combinations. Have pedals for use with electric & headrush gigboard.. Will try some of these with acoustic.

I vouch for the Tumnus Deluxe and the Super Badass distortion. Those 2 are 2 of my favourites.

I run my Electric-Acoustic through my ME-80 all the time and before that through a few pedals that I had (Boss Metal Pedal anyone?). This needs to be explored more. Thanks for the vid, Megan.

Compressor also adds sustain to notes in a solo.

The Wampler of Klon is best used as a little bit of extra magic to the tone, not so much as a drive of it's own (imo) either way I feel all of the drive pedals will work better on an acoustic in combination with the compressor. For a great example of how overdrive can sound epic on acoustic you only need to look to John Butler!

I'd like to see something on playing acoustic through a pencil mic then through some kind of xlr pedal like a voice pedal for instance.

Very fun and interesting video!

Hiya. Still missing the Southend shop :-( Can you do an acoustic take on Electro Harmonix Mel9 C9 and S9 trio sometime? Or some alternatives of these? Thanks.

What about the Fender Smolder Acoustic Overdrive pedal? Also the Stymon Cloudburst? It is handy to have phase and notch in your EQ toolkit.

Nice, good intro for a noob.

I would have liked to hear how Meg used her effects as I imagine she would be more clued about those sounds. No offence meant to Sam, he knows his stuff 👍

i like trying new things so iv put a ds1 and a Machelle guitar amp with distortion(not at the same time) pluged in my acoustic sounds ok if you get the right settings thew im more of an electric guitar player

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Can i use a Boss DS2 to an acoustic guitar?

can use my elecro-acoustic on an amp and pedal at the same time? Cuz I wanna get one and idk

Ofcourse….when it’s plugged in.

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Guitars have acoustic electric pickups, so we will amp the guitar? wtf? Another nonsense video! Lmao

PMT Pretty Much Talking Next just let Meg play and keep the talking to a minimum

You talk too much