Re: SImple amp for F20

Doug <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:45:10 -0400



    On 07/06/2014 06:13 PM, Robert
      Moskowitz wrote:

    
    I
      am looking for a simple amplifer program.
      

      I have looked at audacity, but I would have to be 'recording' to
      get 'playthrough'.  There is supposedly a .vst plugin, but I have
      not found it yet.
      

      This is for my wife to be able to have a simple amp (using my
      little Asus Eee900) for when she is playing her guitar and needs a
      bit of a boost.
      

    As a part-time musician, I would suggest that playing guitar over
    the typical computer speakers is going to sound terrible, if you
    make it work at all.

    (It may be difficult to make it work, because a guitar pickup,
    whether magnetic or acoustic, is at microphone level, and the
    computer sound programs

    would tend to resist putting a mic input out thru local speakers,
    due to acoustic feedback concerns.)

    
    However, there are relatively cheap solutions that do not involve a
    computer at all.

    
    The cheapest is to look for a low-powered guitar amp on Craig's
    List, or at local garage/yard sales. I have found two, so far, one
    of which is maybe 10 Watts

    and would work fine. I paid $10 for it.  The next cheapest is to get
    a student amplifier from a commercial source.  Looking at the
    catalog, "Musician's Friend"

    for last December (the latest one I have) on the inside back cover
    there is a Starcaster Guitar Amplifier, "The perfect amp for
    beginners with 15 watts

    of power."  The sale price was $39.99. They claim it lists for $99
    MSRP. MF stock number is H96133.  

    I don't know if this is still available, but something like this
    probably is. ON the page, it says, Visit musiciansfriend.com/dealcente

    (I don't actually use the little amp for guitar, I use it as a
    monitor for a record player. I have a 1959 Fender Bassman that I use
    for gigs on electric

    piano and guitar. Your wife should not try to actually play a gig on
    a little bitty amp like I have described.)

    
    --doug

    
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