Stone's Acoustic Simulator

coffee_party
coffee_party Posts: 37
edited October 2005 in Musicians and Gearheads
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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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,014
    i read somewhere that its not a pedal but that its a pickup

    kind of cool
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  • Dirty_Frank
    Dirty_Frank Posts: 957
    He either has a piezo or a fishman acoustic pickup in that guitar. My guess is probably piezo.

    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.
  • coffee_party
    coffee_party Posts: 37
    are you sure ? coz early pearl jam days i think stone uses a hamer guitar ? the duotone stuff ? on that case it is realy the pickup but on that stratocaster ? i'm not sure ? can somebody tell me what pedal is that ? coz i've tried one from boss http://www.chamberlainmusic.com/images/products1/AC-2.gif theres the link and it kinda simulates the real acoustic guitar over my fender stratocaster. but stone's really has a good tone ?
  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,014
    coffee_party wrote:
    are you sure ? coz early pearl jam days i think stone uses a hamer guitar ? the duotone stuff ? on that case it is realy the pickup but on that stratocaster ? i'm not sure ? can somebody tell me what pedal is that ? coz i've tried one from boss http://www.chamberlainmusic.com/images/products1/AC-2.gif theres the link and it kinda simulates the real acoustic guitar over my fender stratocaster. but stone's really has a good tone ?

    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
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  • coffee_party
    coffee_party Posts: 37
    yeah the boss was good but not that good compared to stones sound thats why im asking you guys for suggestions so thanks for the replies ! i'll get a piezo pickup then or just buy a normal acoustic guitar and get a good picup for it i'll just use it for my home recordings
  • Dirty_Frank
    Dirty_Frank Posts: 957
    : On the acoustic songs on Live On Two Legs, is that a real acoustic guitar or an electric with a pedal?

    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.
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    the strats have fishman power bridges in them i believe.

    http://www.fishman.com/products/details.asp?id=62
  • coffee_party
    coffee_party Posts: 37
    do you guys know how much the fishman costs ?
  • Dirty_Frank
    Dirty_Frank Posts: 957
    AH YEAH!

    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.

    :)
  • coffee_party
    coffee_party Posts: 37
    cool ! thanks ! i'll take your advices guys really appreciated your efforts helping me find the answer
  • MetalGod75
    MetalGod75 Posts: 262
    Dirty_Frank wrote:
    AH YEAH!

    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.

    :)
    that new Slash Les Paul has got an acoustic pickup on it.When i saw VR at the start of the year his guitar sounded awesome when they did Used To Love Her
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