Electric strings on an acoustic guitar

Does anyone know if an acoustic would still sound good and be perfectly normal if u replaced the acoustic strings with electric strings.

[TheGuitarMan]

It would sould like arse. Why would you wanna do a thing like that?

[Axis]

i tried that the other day just to see what would happen.

It was verrry bright and pretty thin sounding since acoustic strings are so much thicker than electric.

if a very bright thin sound is what your looking for this will work pretty good

[powderfinger]

i did this when i was first learning to make the fretting easier for barre chords.........very thin sounding

[64Firebird]

I always use electric strings on my acoustic guitar. I think it makes the guitar sound a little like one of those old resonator guitars. Wire on a trashcan.

[Treeline]

Electric strings are designed for a particular use - to vibrate a ferric mass in front of a magnet to create a tiny electric field that is shuttled into a box with all sorts of nonsense going on and ends up getting magnified a frightening amount. So the engineers figured "Hey - if that's all they do, then, well, let's make them quiet, comfortable and fast." So the flat wound string was born. What a great thing for an electric guitar.

Acoustic strings are designed for a particular use - to vibrate strongly enough to pull a square foot of reinforced spruce back and forth fast enough so you can hear the air it displaces at the other end of the concert hall - without a mic. Their design takes advantage of the "use it or lose it" theory of acoustics. So the engineers figured "Hey - if they have to do that much, then, well, let's make them heavier, use a hexagonal core, wind them with phosphor bronze at high tension so their mass is frontloaded - and oh, well, let's make them comfortable and quiet too." So the bronze wound high density coated acoustic string was born.

Ya just don't put a clarinet reed in a sax. Don't put electric strings on an acoustic - they'll sound like yesterday's leftover oatmeal tastes.

[jono_3]

they would sound great if your definition of great is something like a 3 - watt radio running on a AA in a steel garbage can

[64Firebird]

Originally posted by jono_3
they would sound great if your definition of great is something like a 3 - watt radio running on a AA in a steel garbage can

Yes! That's the sound I'm looking for and I've found that GHS Nickle Rockers (.011) do a great job of grtting it.

[eyeslikefire]

Originally posted by Treeline
Electric strings are designed for a particular use - to vibrate a ferric mass in front of a magnet to create a tiny electric field that is shuttled into a box with all sorts of nonsense going on and ends up getting magnified a frightening amount. So the engineers figured "Hey - if that's all they do, then, well, let's make them quiet, comfortable and fast." So the flat wound string was born. What a great thing for an electric guitar.

Acoustic strings are designed for a particular use - to vibrate strongly enough to pull a square foot of reinforced spruce back and forth fast enough so you can hear the air it displaces at the other end of the concert hall - without a mic. Their design takes advantage of the "use it or lose it" theory of acoustics. So the engineers figured "Hey - if they have to do that much, then, well, let's make them heavier, use a hexagonal core, wind them with phosphor bronze at high tension so their mass is frontloaded - and oh, well, let's make them comfortable and quiet too." So the bronze wound high density coated acoustic string was born.

Ya just don't put a clarinet reed in a sax. Don't put electric strings on an acoustic - they'll sound like yesterday's leftover oatmeal tastes.

Good explination treeline, very cool.

[philboyd studge]

Oddly enough, you can get the same effect by putting acoustic strings on an electric.