avatar cabinet for acoustic guitar?

vpolineni

I'm thinking of selling my ampeg reverbrocket and buying a ceriatone 18 watt tmb head and an avatar vintage 2x12 cabinet with one Celestion G12H30 and a Celestion Alnico BLUE. Using a separate acoustic amp head, would the avatar cabinet work well with an acoustic guitar? I've seen some acoustic amp combos include tweeters and others don't. I talked to avatar and they said that combo would work well but I'd like to get others opinions as well. I know those two speakers will be great for electrics. On the flip side of the coin, why don't cabinets for electric amps include tweeters like acoustic amps have? would a cabinet with two 8" eminence drivers with two 1" tweeters be any good for electric?

mccreadyisgod

Generally speaking...

There are acoustic amps, and electric amps, and ne'er the twain shall meet.

This is because acoustic amps are designed to be full-range amps capable of reproducing the full frequency spectrum, as if it was a very small version of a PA system. This is also true of keyboard amps and, to some degree, some bass amps. This is why acoustic amps typically have some sort of tweeter or high-range driver. There are some exceptions, like the old Trace Elliot stuff, where they use a full-range driver (the Trace amps used custom 4" speakers, I believe).

Now, an electric guitar is just about the crappiest audio signal, sonically speaking. Electric guitar amps are optomized to reproduce those frequencies only, a much narrower band than any acoustic amp. Also, guitar amps are designed to be much more "lo-fi" than a PA system, especially tube amps and any sort of distortion effect.

So, typical electric guitar amps will make an acoustic sound boxy and lo-fi, where an acoustic amp will make an electric sound sterile and uncomfortably bright and clean.

There is one exception to this general rule that I am aware of, and that's the Roland Jazz Chorus amps. Those sound great for CLEAN electric tones, and are very suitable (if not 100% ideal) for an acoustic amp.

The other option that's a little more odd is to use something like a Line 6 Pod for the electric and run both acoustic and electric into something like a JBL Eon powered PA speaker. The speaker is made as a full-range PA speaker, and a Pod is made to plug into a PA system (or recording system). Just throwing it out there.

All Those Yesterdays

Seems like you need to decide what's more important, the electric tone or the acoustic tone. To me it's electric.

vpolineni

I completely agree. I was trying to combine both by having separate amp heads for acoustic and electric so the electronics weren't an issue-it was the cabinet itself. If a cabinet had tweeters along with the celestion drivers with a switch to bypass the tweeters when not using an acoustic, then that might be able to perform double duty. something like this:
http://www.colomar.com/Shavano/stereocab.html