Electric Guitar Design

An electric guitar is a guitar in which the medium used to capture the vibration of a string is a magnet (called a guitar pickup), where the pickup can be activated through an electric current which then sends a stray pulse signal to the speaker.

Electric guitar is suitable to play a variety of music genres because as we know this guitar is easy to change the type of voice with a variety of effects that will be more flexible or easy to adjust to a particular music genre.

Electric guitar techniques are also much more attractive when compared with the guitar in general, will even continue to grow. In addition fret is also more so that the range of the tone wider and sound exploration is also wider with as well as the many kinds of effects and amp.

However, electric guitar sometimes with a variety of effects to make his voice unnatural and impressed digital, thus making it no longer similar to the guitar sound in general. Electric guitar is not able to produce a clear sound without the help of speakers, such instruments generally require a lot of enhancements to produce a good sound.

Here are a few examples of electric guitar types:

Solid Body

This is the most common type of electric guitar used, this guitar has a whole body without any cavities.

Hollow Body

This is a type of electric guitar where the guitar body there is a cavity like the acoustic guitar. This is meant to give a 'taste' of an acoustic guitar, or rather this is an acoustic guitar that is picked up. Usually these guitars are used by musicians with certain genres.

Semi Hollow Body

This guitar has a cavity on the top and bottom of the guitar, much like a Hollow Body guitar. What distinguishes is in the middle of this guitar there is still solid wood, so the guitar body is not completely hollow. In this part of solid wood is usually placed pick-up.