amps for chet atkins

daveguitar127 · Post by **daveguitar127** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:41 am

I just bought a epiphone chet atkins (not the gibson) for $300.00 and I am wondering what kind of amp i should get to play it threw.

I am trying to play in a band so i want somthing pretty powerfull but not to big and heavy

-thanks

pjdk28 · Post by **pjdk28** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:14 pm

wrong forum, you need to give us budget details, and dave is a musical genius

6_strings_for_life · Post by **6_strings_for_life** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:28 am

pjdk28 wrote:wrong forum, you need to give us budget details, and dave is a muscial genius

hahah

Twostep13 · Post by **Twostep13** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:53 am

daveguitar127 wrote:I just bought a epiphone chet atkins (not the gibson) for $300.00 and I am wondering what kind of amp i should get to play it threw.

I am trying to play in a band so i want somthing pretty powerfull but not to big and heavy

-thanks

i thought they didnt make these anymore, im assuming you mean the chet atkins SST, the black one dave played in the 90's...
if so, where did you get it, id like to pick one up myself if i can get it for 3 hundo

sunglassesatnight · Post by **sunglassesatnight** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:39 pm

It's the Epiphone version. Dave's guitar was a Gibson. Gibson owns Epiphone, so Epiphone made a version of the Chet. It's not as good, but it's a lot cheaper.

Grasso · Post by **Grasso** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:57 pm

I bought a factory 2nd from ebay, put fishman pickups in it and it is sah-weeeeeeeeeet.

espn25 · Post by **espn25** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:13 pm

I was thinking about getting one too, but I couldnt find one

daveguitar127 · Post by **daveguitar127** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:34 pm

got it off of ebay and also i have 2 questions

where are the pickups located on it

and is there a huge difference between the gibson and what are they

Grasso · Post by **Grasso** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:51 pm

It's what's called a piezio pickup. There's a "crystal" under the bridge, that senses the vibrations, and through the magic of technology, makes a gorgeous sound come out.

and talking about differences, it depends on what you mean. The Gibson is about 100x cooler looking, with the big star inlays, but it's definatly not worth it, because even the Gibson could use a Fishman upgrade. so buy a fishman acoustic matrix, and put it in that bad boy, and play amazing sounds.

good luck

c_tietze · Post by **c_tietze** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:23 am

the chet sst is a great axe, you can't play it unplugged, and most unfortunately a great axe will always be referred to as the Dave guitar

Grasso · Post by **Grasso** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:29 am

Has anyone ever seen anyone else play one? I've only seen 2

one was the guitarist in the backing band for some country singer chick...it was one of the sunburst ones...wicked ugly.

the other was Charlie Daniels at the free show in Albany, he palyed some gospel tune on it, but he had the tone all countried out so it sounded so twangy it almost made me leave.

anyone else?

Grasso · Post by **Grasso** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:30 am

Has anyone ever seen anyone else play one? I've only seen 2

one was the guitarist in the backing band for some country singer chick...it was one of the sunburst ones...wicked ugly.

the other was Charlie Daniels at the free show in Albany, he palyed some gospel tune on it, but he had the tone all countried out so it sounded so twangy it almost made me leave.

anyone else?

Grasso · Post by **Grasso** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:30 am

yeah i'm not sure why that did that...sorry.

dmfollower · Post by **dmfollower** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:15 pm

Grasso wrote:Has anyone ever seen anyone else play one? I've only seen 2

one was the guitarist in the backing band for some country singer chick...it was one of the sunburst ones...wicked ugly.

the other was Charlie Daniels at the free show in Albany, he palyed some gospel tune on it, but he had the tone all countried out so it sounded so twangy it almost made me leave.

anyone else?

I've seen the guitar player for the goo goo dolls playing one, completely not worthy of playing the same axe as dave. That guy always plays in the same fcuck up tuning where all you have to do is strum.
Anyways, sweet guitar and i'd love to find one somewhere(other than ebay).

daveguitar127 · Post by **daveguitar127** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:54 pm

Grasso wrote:It's what's called a piezio pickup. There's a "crystal" under the bridge, that senses the vibrations, and through the magic of technology, makes a gorgeous sound come out.

and talking about differences, it depends on what you mean. The Gibson is about 100x cooler looking, with the big star inlays, but it's definatly not worth it, because even the Gibson could use a Fishman upgrade. so buy a fishman acoustic matrix, and put it in that bad boy, and play amazing sounds.

good luck

um how would i put the fishman in like would i need to take it to someone?
and how much does the acoustic martix run for usually?

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