Overdrive pedal with acoustic guitar? Turns out you CAN!

[@paultorres4866]

I play in a church band every Sunday. I've been running my acoustic through a compressor, overdrive, and reverb for years. Lots of tweaking and it sounds amazing in the mix.

[@nhanoacid]

what kind of overdrive use for your acoutic ?thanks

[@paultorres4866]

Boss Blues Driver. Just back the gain down and won't distort. Sounds great. The compressor acts as a clean boost well.. can tweak them both.

[@sirnatanielson]

​@@paultorres4866I'm thinking maybe my Joyo Taichi for a low gain dumble OD. I'm in the same boat, I just have an always on chorus in my chain. Just had the idea of running OD on mine, so maybe I'll consider a blues driver or a small form dumble

[@darrenhimself]

I use an overdrive (sometimes even distortion) for when using E-Bow on acoustic (with reverb/delay). It works great on the B string and saves me swapping to the electric mid-song.

[@manoelolisouza]

Well I think that the best acoustic guitars to put some overdrive are the ones with maple back and sides. And that is your case so nice video. Thank you.

[@lewisforemanmusic]

Thanks , I hadn't thought about wood combinations, a very good point! Cheers for checking it out

[@fugalibrana]

I use the Fender Smolder Acoustic Overdrive. No feedback. Sounds incredible.

[@corsaircowboy6144]

Well done, thank you for that. I went on here searching for that exact demo with the tc mojomojo and an acoustic guitar....you delivered.

[@lewisforemanmusic]

Glad to hear it's helped! Thanks for letting me know

[@robhedison7782]

Same! I need something to beef up a resonator and have a mojomojo lying around! Thank you 😊

[@martinspreiter8240]

Hey you´re playing likea God! Overdrive sounds cool. I use the Fender Smolder Acoustic OD and I´m verry happy with it. Have easy and suny times :-)

[@Peaceful_Days]

I use it on quiet volume with piezo on top of a clean sound hole neck pickup. To sound good, it needs a hi-cut and a compressor. With a neck clean pickup providing low harmonics it sounds full and amazing. Overdrive kinda screams far away in the background.

[@simonandthelyricalpoets]

That sounds a bit different, I quite like it. Good video - liked and subscribed, cheers, Simon

[@GregoryBrown6283]

Thank you so much for this video. I do a solo show on the Alabama Gulf Coast guitar and vocals and I use a loop pedal for my leads. Last summer I lost my voice because of cancer and I’ve had to go to using my loop Paul, and doing just instrumental shows. It works but I’m like you I’m tired of just the same sound all the time. I really like the mojo Mojo pedal does. I may have to try that I know I’m looking for something again thank you for all that you do.

[@lewisforemanmusic]

Hi Gregory, I'm touched that this has helped you so much. Keep making music for those around you and thanks for taking the time to message

[@nathanhill9006]

Found this video as I’m wanting to explore a smaller dual purpose pedalboard suitable for acoustic and electric when I don’t need my bigger electric board. I’ve settled on the Wampler Belle run at 18v because my board goes stereo at an MXR stereo 10band EQ also at 18v. From there it’s to TC’s Triple Delay, Hall of Fame and a Strymon blueSky. I run into a Roland JC40. I have to say I didn’t expect to like my Taylor overdriven but with a feedback buster (an essential ingredient) I have found a way just to give my acoustic a little zip. Great video, content and playing. Thoroughly enjoyed 🍻

[@ShaighJosephson]

Suggest using a compressor before overdrive to tame it...

[@lewisforemanmusic]

Totally agree. Depends what you're going for though, a lot of fun to be had with it being untamed!

[@tlb2732]

Put a compressor before the overdrive, and you'll loose all dynamic benefits of digging in harder for more overdrive up the neck and less overdrive for rhythm riffs down the neck. Instead, put the compressor AFTER drive pedals.

[@listairgin]

Some nice sounds there Lewis, most acoustic players bore me with the same old dry tone, even a top end vintage acoustic tone becomes hard to listen to after a while. I’m just getting back into some electro acoustic stuff myself and I’m currently trying to get a pedal board together. Some of your sounds have inspired me. Thanks 😉🌠🌌👍🏻

[@Gele_Rodrigo]

Wow! Do you go directly to PA, or to an amplifier?

[@lewisforemanmusic]

Thanks for leaving a comment. This was direct to pa, but the same effect would work into an amp

[@sheikhabdullahalabrar4814]

Thank you.

[@philipatoz]

Lesson learned should be, whenever someone says (about anything dealing with instruments / music), "Well, that's just not done!" Um, actually, it very well might be a cool thing to do that SHOULD be done. One never knows until they try! Did anyone ever tell Page he shouldn't put a violin bow to an electric guitar? LOL. And how amazing for everyone that he DID!

[@felidd414]

instant vintage sound

[@sebastienjunca5855]

Hello Lewis ! So,, i'm french and my english is not perfect. Excuse me. Well, i'd tryed playing the track you play with overdrive on accoustic guitar and i find the corrects chords i think. Did you play in open tuning D ? I thinck so. Thanks for your answer and excuse me for the mistakes. By. Seb

[@djmileski]

What pedal is that?

[@ScottPhillipsCreative]

Can you split the signal from this pedal so that the acoustic sound can go to one input and the overdrive sound to another input?

[@lewisforemanmusic]

Not with this pedal. I'm sure a pedal like that exists, but I'm not aware of one. Thanks for leaving a comment

[@colinbaggs2068]

If you haven’t something to do it, a Boss LS2 line selector would do that for you

[@mitchthomas1562]

Thanks for this! I have the same pedal and will try this on acoustic. In terms of gain on the pedal, how do you normally dial that in? Do you have it relatively low on the pedal and then adjust the volume from there or do you usually set the gain to a certain amount and then adjust the volume? Appreciate it!

[@lewisforemanmusic]

Hi Mitch, I have to be honest, it's all down to what i'm after in the moment. For a 'proper' overdrive sound, you have to push the acoustic pickup quite hard so i would put the gain maybe at round 1 o'clock and adjust the volume from there. It's all personal taste with this stuff! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment!

[@nomandad2000]

Been going down a huge rabbit hole trying to find out if I can run this through my fishman loudbox...I wanna do some looping. My acoustic tone is fine but I wanna have some overdrive for certain songs...will I be able to go into my loudbox, or should I go DI into a PA or something....HELLLLP! Lol

[@lewisforemanmusic]

Hi Noman, thanks for the comment. This should work fine going into your loudbox like it would do for any electric amp. That's where I would put it anyway. Happy tone hunting!

[@Marshymilz]

Hey Lewis, Cool Vid! Just Wondering what amp you were using?

[@lewisforemanmusic]

Hi Miles, I was running this through my Marshall t0w acoustic amp and then Di'd into my mac. Thanks for your interest

[@66guns4]

That opening Clapton jam was awesome, Bro!

[@thefotofoundry5996]

is that a custom 808?

[@lewisforemanmusic]

its an EBG808TE from 2006. Not quite a custom but a superb guitar for sure

[@rassimkr9441]

Song name ?

[@lewisforemanmusic]

Hi, playing Sunshine of Your Love by Cream as the opening track. Thanks for the comment!

[@rassimkr9441]

@@lewisforemanmusic thanks bro

[@chickenandwallfles1039]

Swear I know that song

[@gutderby7419]

Thanks for that! Would you say they're using one of those on this recording? kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2SYfmWfg6h1Z8U Been trying to figure out that lovely tone for a while!

[@connorsmith8750]

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[@asepfadrimaulana]

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[@jackbandel]

Dude. Cut down on the caffeine!! You are talking th like you are on speed.