Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues
I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.
I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
