![]() Ovation recently introduced their VXT, a chambered solidbody electric that promises to deliver tones on both sides of the fence, and the innovators at Babicz already have an impressive roster of artists playing their Octane, a thin-line acoustic guitar that features all of their patented acoustic design innovations coupled with a pair of humbuckers! The most widely recognized hybrid on the market was (until recently) the Taylor T5, a beautiful semi-hollowbody electric guitar that looks like an acoustic but doesn’t always sound that way. ![]() We’re talking about putting magnetic pickups on acoustic instruments to rock out the jam through your guitar amp with the overdrive cranked and adding piezo pickups (or other alternate technologies) to electric guitars masquerading as acoustic instruments. No, we’re not talking about simply amplifying your acoustic guitar - that’s so ‘90s. This past year (2007) has seen a huge surge in the popularity of acoustic-electric or electric-acoustic hybrid guitars: instruments that attempt to straddle that magical line where the guitar can perform double duties as both an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar.
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