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Dave Stagner wrote, regarding use of the Vortex with acoustic guitar: >I do miss wrapping clouds of ambience around sustaining notes, though. >Maybe I'll figure out some way to get good distortion again... My very first exploration of the Vortex was with an acoustic, equipped with both piezo and magnetic pickups. I ran the piezo into the Vortex, and the magnetic into a distortion stompbox; outputs to a mixer. It was glorious! I use stainless steel strings on everything, including acoustic guitar; they last much longer, are much better balanced through a magnetic pickup than bronze, and are much brighter than regular nickel electric guitar strings. They definitely sound different than bronze; only you can decide whether the difference is acceptable to you. For heavy distortion, I suggest the worst soundhole pickup you can find-- something that's all midrange honk (like most electric guitar humbuckers sound to me!) My original Lawrence FT-145s are too good; for my next round of acoustic experiments, I'll use a really crappy George L's with no highs at all, and fairly high output. It gave me wonderful distortion last time I tried it, before I had the Vortex. John Email: johnpollock@delphi.com Troubador Tech on the Web--http://people.delphi.com/johnpollock/