I won't try to convince anyone that this is the way to go, but I have long played my acoustic/electrics through keyboard amps. I've always loved the sound + I use a small pedal-board to add any light effects.
Anyway, back in February, I took delivery on an interesting little keyboard amp. It's the creation of a guy named Aspen Pittman and it's called the Spacestation V.3. His claim was that it could create a 300 degree stereo field from one central cabinet.
From reading a lot of their reviews (last time I looked there were over 70 pages of discussion on the Music Player's Forum), I knew that the keyboard players were going nuts for it, and after some correspondence with Mr. Pittman, I decided to order one back in October. Sweetwater is his exclusive distributor in the US. Due to the demand for this amp from Keys players (+ some delays caused by the West Coast dock strikes), my unit didn't arrive 'til February....but all I can say is that it was worth the wait! ( I believe Sweetwater has sold out 3 shipments since summer).
Currently, I run everything into a small mixer and then to this amp. The cool thing is that the trio I play with really does run EVERYTHING through this 18"x11"x11' amplifier - Two vocal mics, two guitars+ an electric bass (If we had Keys, there's no doubt we could run them into it as well). We do this when practicing or when playing out.
The sound is phenomenal, and definitely more than enough for mid- sized (or larger) rooms. So now, we bring our instruments, the small mixer and the amp.....that's it.
Here's how I've been running my guitar to the board: Guitar to a K & K Power Mix Pure XT box to EQ the passive pickups (2)
Then to a Radial Tonebone before sending the clean sound to the mixer. I have two pedals in an effects loop, a delay followed by a stereo reverb that runs directly to a stereo input on the mixer (this triggers the stereo capabilities of the amp).
I couldn't begin to explain the technology behind this amp, but if you're interested in reading about it and hearing/seeing some of the audio/video, this is a link to Aspen Pittman's website: http://www.centerpointstereo.com/
Bob
Anyway, back in February, I took delivery on an interesting little keyboard amp. It's the creation of a guy named Aspen Pittman and it's called the Spacestation V.3. His claim was that it could create a 300 degree stereo field from one central cabinet.
From reading a lot of their reviews (last time I looked there were over 70 pages of discussion on the Music Player's Forum), I knew that the keyboard players were going nuts for it, and after some correspondence with Mr. Pittman, I decided to order one back in October. Sweetwater is his exclusive distributor in the US. Due to the demand for this amp from Keys players (+ some delays caused by the West Coast dock strikes), my unit didn't arrive 'til February....but all I can say is that it was worth the wait! ( I believe Sweetwater has sold out 3 shipments since summer).
Currently, I run everything into a small mixer and then to this amp. The cool thing is that the trio I play with really does run EVERYTHING through this 18"x11"x11' amplifier - Two vocal mics, two guitars+ an electric bass (If we had Keys, there's no doubt we could run them into it as well). We do this when practicing or when playing out.
The sound is phenomenal, and definitely more than enough for mid- sized (or larger) rooms. So now, we bring our instruments, the small mixer and the amp.....that's it.
Here's how I've been running my guitar to the board: Guitar to a K & K Power Mix Pure XT box to EQ the passive pickups (2)
Then to a Radial Tonebone before sending the clean sound to the mixer. I have two pedals in an effects loop, a delay followed by a stereo reverb that runs directly to a stereo input on the mixer (this triggers the stereo capabilities of the amp).
I couldn't begin to explain the technology behind this amp, but if you're interested in reading about it and hearing/seeing some of the audio/video, this is a link to Aspen Pittman's website: http://www.centerpointstereo.com/
Bob
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