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Electric Guitar
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Many different elements combine to make up the sound of an electric guitar:
- Guitar woods and construction
- Strings types and ages
- Pickup types, placement and combinations
- Quality and length of cables (or radio system)
- Stompboxes, pedal and special effects
- Amplifier designs, tones and overdrive
- Speaker types and speaker box construction
- Your playing environment and volume level
Most of these are covered in my guitar pages, which I have split broadly into:
Guitar Amplifiers
An explanation of guitar amplifier design, and why they are so different to 'standard' amplifiers.
There's information on valve and transistor designs, history on overdrive (or distortion) trends, and some overdrive circuit diagrams for experimenters.
Guitar Effects
Sound and technical descriptions of common guitar effects, with recommendations for which order to use them.
Also comments on digital effects, and patches and a settings viewer for the Roland GP-100.
Guitar Pickups
An explanation on how different guitar pickups work, useful wiring tips with circuit diagrams, pitfalls to avoid, and a description of the harmonic vibrations of guitar strings!
There's also a few bonus pages ...
Interesting and Frequently Asked Questions
Mostly questions on pickups (because that's what most people write to me about), but also other topics, such as different guitar woods, power amplifier classes, and so on.
Manufacturer Index
A graphical index to manufacturers with lists by product type.
My Favourites
My favourite solos (with sound clips), my favourite players, and my favourite guitars.