Anyone of you ever tested/used one of these silent guitars ?

What do you think of them?


http://www.yamaha.com/guitars/silent/0,,CT...D600022,00.html

The problem is if it's as clean and nice, but cost more and not as portable, why would anyone choose a silent guitar over a conventional one, unless they're gigging ?

It's not portable in the sense you need to power it.

Even with batteries, it's still not really considered portable if you run out of em.

The reason for using this guitar I suppose, because you can jack it into an amplifier and that's good for gigging.

If you gig with acoustic, have to mic it and it probably won't sound as good from what I read, unless you're using acoustic electric.

Still, it boils down to the final thing, price.

Why would one choose a silent guitar over a traditional acoustic or an acoustic electric?

This post has been edited by bman: Dec 5 2006, 07:07 PM

Errr, I can do this with a strat + microcube (battery pack)

Or with an electric acoustic and the microcube.

Wouldn't it be cheaper compared to the silent guitar ?

under 2k with the setups i mentioned, but with the silent guitar... it's over 2k, and if you bust the unit... you have to get a new one.

With the setup i mentioned, if using a cheap squier, just replace with another cheap one.