Quote (bob(Cs2) @ Jul 29 2013 04:17am)
#1 - If you are debating acoustic / elec/acoustic, then get the electric acoustic and i'll make it real simple for you.
Acoustic guitar - $300
Elec Acoustic - $300
You may have no aspirations to play live and thats fine,. You loose nothing from the instrument by having electric input, you do not have to use the input ever but it's good to have just in case.
Given your awesome budget, I would look at Fender / Takamine / Taylor / Martin / Gibson branded acoustics. There are other brands out there, and ofc try out as many as you want, but your price range means you can get real quality which in the long run is what will matter.
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My pops recently got an Ovation electric acoustic for around 300$, plays great, and sounds good as well, can plug it str8 into the PA and just makes it that much bigger ya know?
I got an epiphone custom humming bird, regular acoustic and for me I don't mind that it doesn't plug up, just a really good playing acoustic, but I would like the option sometimes to plug it up, tho I don't really want to install it