Can I put an electric guitar pickup on an acoustic guitar?

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No, you can't get that acoustic sound with electric guitar pickup
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Off course you can,but warning it will never sound like an acoustic guitar because acoustic guitar sound best way is with a microphone pointed at the guitar soundhole.
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Well totally. The cool part is, you can reaper or any other kind of software and find a way to connect your acoustic guitar to a computer and have fun. However, this connection requires something called an impedance match. This should not really be a problem as computer microphone jack is high impedance...
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Well totally. The cool part is, you can reaper or any other kind of software and find a way to connect your acoustic guitar to a computer and have fun. However, this connection requires something called an impedance match. This should not really be a problem as computer microphone jack is high impedance and so are guitar pickups. To be safe buy a cheap usb sound card (under a few hundred rupees ) and try on it first. read less
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Yes. But its not ment for it. It will sound crappy! Go for acoustic guitar pickups
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