The best way to amplify your acoustic guitar for live shows

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Getting your acoustic guitar to sound good in a live band or musical setting is a challenge – especially if you don’t want to compromise on the beautiful natural tone of your instrument. Thankfully, there is a way of doing this, as Blog Of Tone explains… In our digital era, it would seem that amplifying […]

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Finding the best pickups and amplifier for your nylon-string guitar

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Whoever mapped out the steel-string acoustic guitar’s route to global dominance should be commended. Now there’s a plan that worked. But don’t let the wire-and-wood axe’s ubiquity fool you. Not everyone worships at the steel-string guitar altar. In fact, a surprising number of guitarists prefer an instrument strung with nylon. Many of us just love […]

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Mixing tonal transparency and engineering excellence to create the best acoustic guitar amplifier

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The best acoustic guitar amplifier money can buy is the one you think you can’t actually hear – because its prime job is to make your instrument imperceptibly louder, while preserving your pure acoustic tone. If it’s really good, your audience might not even notice that there’s an amp there at all! But this total […]

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The search for the ultimate acoustic guitar amplifier: interview with designer Michael Eisenmann

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When acoustic guitar amplifier guru Michael Eisenmann joined forces with Hughes & Kettner to create a brand new acoustic amp, we at Blog Of Tone were excited, curious, and a little bit… apprehensive. What would they come up with? How could Eisenmann improve on his previous designs, which are celebrated by acoustic guitar players worldwide? […]

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