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An acoustic guitar has it's fundamental frequencies in the mids. That is it's design, and if you cut very many of those frequencies it sounds bad because that's what there is. The highs and lows are what give the acoustic guitar its character and individuality, but are usually pretty unflattering by themselves. I can not think of a single instance where I improved the basic sound of an acoustic guitar by boosting or cutting any frequencies. It may be possible, but I have several guitars in the house. If I EQ the acoustic guitar it is for some reason other than getting it's tone right. If it doesn't sound right live, I reach for another one.
All this goes right out the window with an electric guitar. Your sound is not just the resonant fundamentals of the acoustic guitar, you can boost everything (gain) and cut fundamentals creating new and radically different sounds. That's Rock and Roll.
If you respect the original acoustic guitar tonal pallet with an electric guitar you get something like a Jazz guitar sound. This can be very pretty is how the electric was designed to be used at first. If you distort that sound with gain induced clipping or fuzz or whatever, you get mud. If you boost the signal with electronic gain (not to the distortion point yet...) and cut some fundamentals however, you can change the type and character of the sound radically as "new fundamentals" emerge from the amp and electronics. Until I realized that I was playing electricity, not just amping the string vibrations and "adding effects" for my tone, my electric guitar always sounded like some muddy, sick, and badly mutated acoustic guitar.
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