Should we have a separate Acoustic board

mellowsun · August 2013

Just wondering if it's worth having a separate Acoustic section, as we had in the old place? Any thoughts?

btw anyone going to the London Acoustic Show on 7/8 September?

VimFuego · August 2013

did the other one get much use? It always seemed to me that each tasteful, acoustic based thread was swamped under the weight of pointy, widdly woo guitar threads. I'd like to see one, but think I may be in a minority.

Would love to go, wrong end of the country.

dindude · August 2013

I popped into the acoustic room on MR occasionally and mostly I found Bertie drinking alone, we'd argue for a bit about Taylor's, then I'd leave.

Edit: went to the acoustic show last year, will probably pop my head around this year too.

ICBM · August 2013

dindude said:

I popped into the acoustic room on MR occasionally and mostly I found Bertie drinking alone, we'd argue for a bit about Taylor's, then I'd leave.

Same here

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rpr · August 2013

I play predominately acoustic, but spent most of my time in the electric section of MR. I don't think there's that much that can said about them to be honest. They cant be modded like electrics, there isn't the same range of FX and amps that alter the sound the same way., There is lots of electrics that are nice to look at even if I don't want it or it doesn't suit my style, whereas acoustics are pretty much different shades of.brown and curvy I've only ever owned 3 acoustics, whereas I've lost count of the amount of electrics I've owned

crunchman · August 2013

The acoustic section was pretty quiet, but then the whole forum was quite quiet in recent times. There does seem to be more activity here but I'm not sure it's worth a separate section.

Really dedicated acoustic players will probably find their way to a dedicated acoustic site.

Van_Hayden · August 2013

dindude;12272" said:
I popped into the acoustic room on MR occasionally and mostly I found Bertie drinking alone, we'd argue for a bit about Taylor's, then I'd leave.

Why were you talking about Taylor's in the acoustic section?

Kind of like talking about an MR2 on a sports car forum....

dindude · August 2013

Mid engined, rear wheel drive, 2 seater, accesable to the masses, I see you're point :-SS

Edit: I've no idea what that smileys supposed to be.

monquixote · August 2013

We can have one if there is demand, but I don't think there was enough traffic to justify it on MR and I hate dead boards.

Antique_Guitars · August 2013

An acoustic section would be good.

The MR one was pretty dead but hopefully we could improve on that.

Acoustics are my thing these days and I would like to get into more discussions about them, especially antique acoustics.

Antique_Guitars · August 2013

I say give it a trial and if it is dead then chop it

ddlooping · August 2013

dindude said:

Edit: I've no idea what that smileys supposed to be.

Biting your nails.

monquixote · August 2013

I'm inclined to go the other way. If there are loads of threads about acoustics I'll move them into their own section.

tonyrath · August 2013

Buying acoustics yes - acoustic playing techniques yes - flatpicking - fingerpicking - hitty bangy type playing techniques - styles of music - My acoustic heroes are Martin Carthy - John Renbourn - Chet Atkins etc

Antique_Guitars · August 2013

monquixote said:

I'm inclined to go the other way. If there are loads of threads about acoustics I'll move them into their own section.

Ah a challenge to fill the Guitar forum with lots of stuff about acoustics! Well I accept the challenge good sir.

Paul_C · August 2013

my pedal board pictured elsewhere (and again below

) is for my acoustic, and then into a Laney acoustic amp, so you can add all sorts of effects to them if you like

ICBM · August 2013

rpr said:

I don't think there's that much that can said about them to be honest. They cant be modded like electrics, there isn't the same range of FX and amps that alter the sound the same way.

I agree that people don't tend to turn them over like they do electrics, but there's certainly a lot you can do with them in terms of modding (mostly pickup systems) and you can use effects on them just the same as an electric. I know most acoustic players tend not to though.

If anything it's more of an open field at the moment and hasn't become as tired and set in stone as a lot of the electric guitar stuff has.

birdo · August 2013

There's a whole lot to talk about with acoustics . Body size , wood ( back,sides and tops ) bracing patterns , scale lengths , amount of frets and amount of strings plus more . However this does seem a place for more electric players or at least they post more.

[Deleted User] · August 2013

I notice Lixarto's J45 ('from Hartnolls') is up for sale in the classifieds.... Maybe acoustics are on their way out...

bertie · August 2013

I would 'like' a separate one, of only due to the number of "electric" based posts, anything about acoustic soon gets relegated to lower pages if not added to in a few hours. Im got a great fan of trawling through pages and pages just to find a couple of relevant threads that might interest me.

Be nice to have a separate one.

ICBM · August 2013

bertie said:

I would 'like' a separate one, of only due to the number of "electric" based posts, anything about acoustic soon gets relegated to lower pages if not added to in a few hours. Im got a great fan of trawling through pages and pages just to find a couple of relevant threads that might interest me.

Be nice to have a separate one.

I would too, I actually think it should be for all acoustic instruments, since things like mandolins, ukeleles, banjos etc are more closely related to acoustic guitars - both in terms of the type of music, players etc and the tech that goes with them. I'm not sure it would really increase the traffic much but it might help to broaden the forum a little from being a purely guitar/bass one.

Bidley · August 2013

ICBM said:

I would too, I actually think it should be for all acoustic instruments, since things like mandolins, ukeleles, banjos etc are more closely related to acoustic guitars - both in terms of the type of music, players etc and the tech that goes with them. I'm not sure it would really increase the traffic much but it might help to broaden the forum a little from being a purely guitar/bass one.

This would interest me. I've been playing a lot of mandolin recently.

bertie · August 2013

ICBM said:
I would too, I actually think it should be for all acoustic instruments, since things like mandolins, ukeleles, banjos etc are more closely related to acoustic guitars - both in terms of the type of music, players etc and the tech that goes with them. I'm not sure it would really increase the traffic much but it might help to broaden the forum a little from being a purely guitar/bass one.

bit like saying bass and electric guitar should be all one forum

VimFuego · August 2013

ICBM said:

bertie said:

I would 'like' a separate one, of only due to the number of "electric" based posts, anything about acoustic soon gets relegated to lower pages if not added to in a few hours. Im got a great fan of trawling through pages and pages just to find a couple of relevant threads that might interest me.

Be nice to have a separate one.

I would too, I actually think it should be for all acoustic instruments, since things like mandolins, ukeleles, banjos etc are more closely related to acoustic guitars - both in terms of the type of music, players etc and the tech that goes with them. I'm not sure it would really increase the traffic much but it might help to broaden the forum a little from being a purely guitar/bass one.

you may be onto something there, may encourage non guitar players to come here. There are some specific sites for mando, banjos and so on, but they tend to be US centric (and hanging around on US centric forums can be a trying experience, they're not really aware of the rest of the world). I have noticed a bit of an increase in the interest for playing instruments here in the UK and Ireland (I was eyeing up bazoukis the other day).

ICBM · August 2013

bertie said:
ICBM said:
I would too, I actually think it should be for all acoustic instruments, since things like mandolins, ukeleles, banjos etc are more closely related to acoustic guitars - both in terms of the type of music, players etc and the tech that goes with them. I'm not sure it would really increase the traffic much but it might help to broaden the forum a little from being a purely guitar/bass one.
bit like saying bass and electric guitar should be all one forum

No, they have a different musical purpose and type of amplification, even if (sometimes) the same people play them... and you'll never get 'proper' bassists to admit that anyway

.

Good to see we can still disagree about something anyway >:).

VimFuego said:
(I was eyeing up bazoukis the other day).

Careful, you can get arrested for that if you do it too overtly.

VimFuego · August 2013

I don't care, I'm out and proud.

ddlooping · August 2013

VimFuego said:

(I was eyeing up bazoukis the other day).

Were they bouzoukis that shoot rockets?

VimFuego · August 2013

bah, curses. And I'd have got away with it if it weren't for you pesky kids.

ESchap · August 2013

I'd say there was more traffic on the old MR site in the acoustic section than on the Bass and Bass got its own section here .... tumbleweed is already starting to roll through there.

Though tbh, "Bass Chat" probably caters better for us "thick" stringers, certainly in the classifieds.

VimFuego · August 2013

what about acoustic basses? where do they get discussed? Won't somebody think of the fat boys?!?

TTony · August 2013

monquixote said:

We can have one if there is demand, but I don't think there was enough traffic to justify it on MR and I hate dead boards.

@monquixote

What do you reckon MQ ... seems like a fair bit of discussion here.

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