Electro-acoustic through an electric amp - EQ advice

[Richie Rich]

I play in a church and we run electro-acoustics through a Peavey Bandit 65 solo, obviously it's working fine but my question is; 

 

To get the BEST sound, would it be better to to EQ the guitar rather than the combo or the other way round?

 

I was thinking that it would be better to keep the combo settings at 12 and tweak the sound from the guitar.

 

Any advice would be greatly received, thanks.  

[ezbass]

Probably a little bit of both. However, it'll never be right. It's best to go direct through the PA for a true reproduction of your acoustic signal.

[Richie Rich]

@ezbass We used to go directly in the PA but, the combo gives us a better representation of our sound that the little monitors we use.

 

At the moment I tend to use the combo’s EQ to get the basic sound and then finely tune it on the guitar’s EQ.

[Skinnyman]

Interesting observation on another forum;

 

If you play an old-school piezo-bridge acoustic-electric, IME the low-gain input of an '80s Peavey Bandit 65/Special 130 1x12" combo is as good as it gets for live performance: the limited frequency response over ~5kHz filters out the nails-on-a-blackboard highs and "quack," and since the Saturation control in the Lead channel is defeatable you can set up a separate level for single-string leads or fingerstyle - used one for years with my first-gen Ovation Custom Balladeer, and it actually sounded like a loud acoustic guitar rather than what presently passes for "acoustic-electric" ...

 

Unless you want to add a modelling pedal (TC ToneRes? Zoom A1 Four?), it sounds like your current approach is the best one.