BR 80 and a Les Paul Studio

[keithpitts]

I have a 2013 Les Paul Studio and I want to use the Les Paul to Acoustic patch, is there any special way I need to set up the guitar ( this model has coil taps on both pickups you pull up  the volume controls for the coil taps to work.
Thanks
Keith Pitts
P.S. can I use this guitar with the E Guitar to Bass patch?

[chip]

Hi. You just have to experiment. In my opinion the sims for acoustics ain't that good, just give it a go and mess around. The bass sim is usable but you have to be careful how you play the notes, if you play them to fast it sounds odd, better to get a bass really. Like I say, you really have to jazz around with it. PS. The LP studio may be better with the humbuckers for acoustic type sounds. Have fun.

[keithpitts]

It has a 490R in the neck position offers vintage warmth and throaty blues tones, while a hotter 498T in the bridge belts out all the scorch, sizzle and sustain you require. Furthermore, both are wired for coil splitting, with individual push-pull tone-control switching to tap authentic single-coil tones, which are even wired for hum cancelling in the middle position.
Thanks For The Reply
Keith Pitts

[bruno]

I would agree with chip - acoustic SIM's rarely sound anything like an acoustic imo. This normally leads to GAS (ie you end up buying an acoustic and a bass, and, and ....
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[chip]

It has a 490R in the neck position offers vintage warmth and throaty blues tones, while a hotter 498T in the bridge belts out all the scorch, sizzle and sustain you require. Furthermore, both are wired for coil splitting, with individual push-pull tone-control switching to tap authentic single-coil tones, which are even wired for hum cancelling in the middle position.
Thanks For The Reply
Keith Pitts

Think you summed it up. The Gibbo is not for acoustic sounds. I agree with Bruno. Get an acoustic if you haven't already, then a bass, then a, then a, then a? If I were you I would let rip with the Gibson, you have a lot of tone going on with all the pick-up variations. Those pick-ups sound nice clean, the ones in mine did.

[Pete C]

Keith

I have a BR600 which has a few accoustic sim patches. If you look at my personal jukebox there's a cover of Queen Bitch by David Bowie, where I used a japanese Epiphone Elite Les Paul, the ones built with Gibson US pickups and electronics.  From what I've read the pickups are the same as the 490R and 498T pickups.  I used this for the acoustic guitar parts which you hear best on the intro - think i used the neck pickup. I think its passable when you compare it to Bowie's original but probably wouldn't work on everything.
Re using it through the bass simulator, all my tracks prior to Queen Bitch were done with bass sim using either the Les Paul or a strat but I prefer the real bass on my later tracks. Queen Bitch was the first track I did with a real bass.

[Geir]

Hi Keith

Acoustic simulation patches will never give you a great acoustic guitar sound, but they can work well in a mix. They can be fun to play around with tho, and maybe you will fins the sound you're after.

I find the "120 ACSIM FOR LP" works best with humbuckers and I find it to work best with the neck pickup. The "121 ACSIM FOR ST" works better for single coil pickups and you can use that if you use your coil-tap position on your Les Paul. I would suggest you try different combinations of your pickups with this, but I would start with the neck pickup here too, maybe both neck and bridge (with coiltap on both).

Good luck !

[Greeny (No longer active)]

It would be less stressful to buy a (really) cheap acoustic guitar and bass. You won't get a proper acoustic sound no matter what patches and methods you use, so it might just be better to reframe what you're after, tone-wise. I've used a Les Paul for plenty of 'clean' rhythm guitar parts, and it sounds really nice. Not acoustic, but defined and clean chords that work well as the basis of a song.

It's also worth trying it all all the recording effects OFF, and relying on the natural acoustics alone. I've done this before too.