When Not To Use An Acoustic Guitar With Pickups
Acoustic guitars are versatile. They can be played with or without electronics. Here are three reasons why you wouldn’t want to use pickups with an acoustic guitar. First, you’d want to avoid pickups if you don-t have an amplifier, if you have a classical guitar and finally if you are playing softly for your lover. After you know these reasons, you will avoid embarrassment and gain a more receptive audience.
WHEN YOU DON-T HAVE AN AMPLIFIER
If you don-t have an amp, then your pickups wont do you any good. Pickups need an amplifier. So if you don-t have one on you, then forget the pickups.
WHEN YOU HAVE A CLASSICAL GUITAR
Next, if you have a acoustic classical guitar, forget the pickups. A classical guitar has its own special, natural sound. It almost cant be described. There are subtleties that a pickup would ruin. So if you have a classical guitar, dump the idea of pickups.
WHEN YOU’RE PLAYING SOFTLY FOR YOUR LOVER
Finally, if you are playing to your wife or girlfriend, what makes you think a pickup will help? It wont. You are looking for a mood and atmosphere. Your music will help achieve that. Plunk a pickup on there, and you destroy the atmosphere.
Pickups are fun, but when it comes to acoustic guitars, don-t think that you always have to use them. After all once you add the pickup, then you have to get an amplifier and other equipment. Save your money and go with the acoustic with no pickups.