Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Electric guitars use a pickup that works with the metal strings, so
has an input designed for this.

I'd guess that a violin would use a normal microphone, so needs an amp
suitable for this.

Most acoustic guitars use a piezo pickup. The main difference between the
amplifier types is that amps for electric are designed to distort tonally
('voiced') and to overload, while those for acoustic stay clean, more like a
hifi or PA amp. Dunno what an electric violin will have - I've seen 'frame'
style leccy fiddles which use some sort of pickup.


So a decent all in one PA amplifier, which has a
built in microphone pre-amp, would be the answer. However, general
purpose PA speakers are designed to go rather lower in frequency than
a violin needs, so something specific for the purpose would seem the
way to go.

I thought of a small PA rig, since that should be tonally similar to an
acoustic amp, but an acoustic amp is likely to be less hassle to move
around - it'll be a single-box deal like a 1x12 combo.


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