Stone's Acoustic Simulator
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on the touring band DVD during the song nothingman. do you guys have an idea what acoustic simulator did stone uses ? i know he is using a sfender stratocaster electric guitar but what acoustic simulator is he using ?
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kind of cool
He might combine it with an acoustic simulator pedal to make it sound more realistic but I'm not sure.
I once owned a Parker guitar that had a piezo in the bridge saddles along with a SSH combination. I could blend the piezo with any of the passive pickups in the guitar. You can get some awesome tones, but the playability on that guitar was terrible.
that pedal is crap sounds nothing like an acoustic
im sure that he has an acoustic pickup, im just not sure i think Dirty_Frank hit the target perfectly
A: The acoustic guitar that you hear on "Live On Two Legs" is from a Hamer "Duo-Tone" acoustic/electric guitar. (http://www.kamanmusic.com/hamer/) It's a semi-hollow body guitar that has electro-magnetic humbucker pickups (for an electric sound) as well as a piezo bridge-saddle pickup (for an acoustic sound). The Duo-Tone also has two separate output jacks (one for the electric pickups, one for the acoustic pickup) which allows the player to have separate control over the sound he/she is going for. With a blending pedal (such as an Ernie Ball Stereo/Pan pedal), the player can have either a fully electric/overdriven tone, a fully clean, acoustic guitar tone, or a blending of both.
That was what he was using circa '98.
I'm going to assume that he's just done the same thing to a strat and many other guitars. The double output jack modification is a little more serious though. I don't know if he has that on the strats.
A piezo pickup does not sound anywhere as good as a real acoustic guitar though. On the '05 tour and the '03 tour, Stone was using the acoustic guitar a lot more than the piezo strat and it sounded a lot better.
http://www.fishman.com/products/details.asp?id=62
My parker had a fishman in it. To be specific, this one
http://www.fishman.com/products/details.asp?id=64
I also has the powerchip too, and it had a shiny little metal toggle in addition to the pickup selecter.
http://www.fishman.com/products/details.asp?id=33
The powerchip alone runs for about a hundred bucks and the fishman powerbridge runs at about 200+.
To be honest, I didn't like the fishman sound. It's also not really a pick up and strum like you have an acoustic thing either. It requires a lot of EQ tweak and volume/tone blending to get a good sound.
I suggest you try it out if you can find a guitar that comes with this stuff on it.