The development of the electric guitar dates back to the late 1930s. Since then, guitar makers and players have sought to refine the electric guitar's sound, its "tone".

The sound of an guitar results from many variables. Surprisingly, even the wood in the neck, the metal in the tuners, and the amount of air in the body affects the tone of an electric guitar: even guitars with the same strings and the same pickups can sound very differently!

Many variables make up an electric guitar's sound and feel. This is quite amazing, considering that the "pickups" only pick up the changes in the magnetic field... But the construction, type of finish, pickups, electronics and other factors contribute to the guitar's nique sound:

an archtop sounds very different from a solid-body guitar, even if having the same strings and pickups;
a strings-through-body guitar sounds brighter than a guitar with the strings anchored at the bridge;
the effect of different potentiometers ("pots") and capacitors ("caps") in the volume / tone circuits are crucial to a guitar's tone;
other hardware parts can play a big role.

top site map