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Frontal Assault: Rock's Top 10 Frontmen
Frontal Assault: The Top 10 Guitar-Playing Frontmen in Rock
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Iron & Wine’s ‘Archive Series Volume No. 1’ — First Listen
Iron & Wine’s ‘Archive Series Volume No. 1’ — First Listen

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Amplifying Your Acoustic: The Oxymoron and the Paradox

Posted 09/23/2013 at 11:15pm | by Rick Turner
Amplifying Your Acoustic

The first thing you have to realize when amplifying an acoustic guitar is that in doing so you’ve gone interactive, which sounds very nice except that it happens to work against you in this situation. What do I mean by “interactive?” Just that your acoustic guitar interacts with its sonic environment, and when that environment gets loud, acoustic guitars get weird.

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