ShaneV
Well-known member
Today I procured a new (to me) acoustic amp for my JP's piezo and I'm now in piezo heaven.
I had been running an Ultrasound AG-30, which was alright, but tended to distort and fart out at anything approaching reasonable volume, and just generally wasn't particularly awesome sounding. My piezo sounds were never impressing me, and I knew (based on samples I've heard here) that they should have been. Today, all that changed- I took my Ultrasound and some misc. unused pedals to my favorite used gear shop and walked out the proud owner of a pre-DSP Fender Acoustasonic Jr (they had a DSP model also, and it was significantly worse, yet more expensive
).
Now I can't stop playing my JP through it- it's exactly the piezo sound I always wanted, and with the chorus and reverb I can get some really haunted, spooky "right before the heavy guitars kick in in a metal song" kind of tones. Makes me love my JP even more, I think it's slowly becoming my new No. 1 (which is sad in a way, because my Silo Special has been with me for so long).
Anyway, sorry for the long, mildly off topic post- I'm just so jazzed about my piezo tones right now.
(PS- I brought my JP along to try the amp out and the store's owner gave me some MM stickers he had laying around, probably destined for the trash. Not sure what I'll do with them, but they're nifty:
)
I had been running an Ultrasound AG-30, which was alright, but tended to distort and fart out at anything approaching reasonable volume, and just generally wasn't particularly awesome sounding. My piezo sounds were never impressing me, and I knew (based on samples I've heard here) that they should have been. Today, all that changed- I took my Ultrasound and some misc. unused pedals to my favorite used gear shop and walked out the proud owner of a pre-DSP Fender Acoustasonic Jr (they had a DSP model also, and it was significantly worse, yet more expensive
). Now I can't stop playing my JP through it- it's exactly the piezo sound I always wanted, and with the chorus and reverb I can get some really haunted, spooky "right before the heavy guitars kick in in a metal song" kind of tones. Makes me love my JP even more, I think it's slowly becoming my new No. 1 (which is sad in a way, because my Silo Special has been with me for so long).
Anyway, sorry for the long, mildly off topic post- I'm just so jazzed about my piezo tones right now.
(PS- I brought my JP along to try the amp out and the store's owner gave me some MM stickers he had laying around, probably destined for the trash. Not sure what I'll do with them, but they're nifty:
