Electric Guitar structure

The design and structure of electric guitar basics - turn! The design and structure of electric guitar basics


Introduction


of: Lightning Hand


I recently a large music stores in the U.S. advertising booklet, see that they wrote this a few electric guitar to help you understand the basis of the design concepts and structure of articles, written in simple and there are brief, I think very good translation of them in a chapter about casual, but also add a little something to add my own, to not know some basic knowledge of users, but also for the future to choose their own electric guitar, to consider the details to better understand what we Products look at the details of electric guitar, or on the factory site research, you can probably know that the piano does not apply to your hand fitness, your bomb method, you want Tone, music uses.
Application of electric guitar

origin should be traced back to 1939 Jazz guitarist Charlie Christian, with the Gibson ES-150, with the first to pickup (Pickup), mass-produced electric guitar, he belongs to Benny Goodman Orchestra with other woodwind brass instruments playing together, and there solo, speaker is also Gibson's EH-250, but the then speaker? numbers are too small, many of 5W, 10W would be it, to go through other instruments, the volume is very difficult, So was it mostly shells Chord accompaniment, playing the little master.


60 years later, and now the electric guitar and the speaker has said, but not with words, not only the volume is big enough to let you quickly become deaf, but many of the main instruments of modern music over the years manufacturers have also continue to have R & D products to the pursuit of sound in various manifestations, no BS, start now to a brief electric guitar sound these effects the performance of some basic knowledge of piano wood from the next start.


piano wood


do different wood body electric guitar, there will be a different sound performance, it may turn into a certain type of guitar sound characteristics, not only sound, wood patterns are also often deliberately highlight painter manufacturers, have different visual appearance, so that electric guitar like a violin does not look so boring, all look similar, so you hand in the selection of electric guitars, guitar, the appearance of a certain large proportion of consideration is not it ah? Do not lie Oh !


In general, the more hard-wood piano, sound more bright (Bright) and the more powerful Road (Punchy), in turn, the more soft wood, the more warm and soft on the tone, for example, Fender Stratocaster most common Alder (Red poplar) is a medium-density wood, sound performance of the golden mean, high school bass, brightness, flexibility, warm and just right degree and so that no one particular highlight, it may be the single most common wood piano materials, Mahogany (peach heart wood) is very soft and heavy, so thick and warm tone will be soft, the bass is also more apparent hardness of large Maple (maple), often used to do because of strong Neck, but it is also used to increase the brightness of the consideration, other high brightness of guitar common wood there Ash, Rosewood, Pao Ferro, Ebony (black?), warm sound while still common to use Koa, Poplar, Agathis, Basswood, the wood will affect the whole support the weight of Qin, as Basswood very light weight in addition to the above about the Mahogany addition, Telecaster Ash commonly used is also important.


manufacturers will use a variety of wood of different sound performance, the two kinds of wood together to do the piano, for example, Gibson Les Paul or PRS is very common in Mahogany piano on the surface, with a layer of non- Maple thick surface, so that the performance of exhaustive high school bass color.


should also mention that the soft wood will absorb string vibration energy, to sound the starting Effort (Attack) and sustain (sustain) decreased (Note: Attack of the significance For example, piano sounds like the beginning there was the impact that a strong tone Attack, Attack violin so that no sound).


piano form


electric piano and various forms of design, but also affect the sound performance, so each brand's design model is also different.

first mentioned the electric guitar of the most common solid wood piano (Solid body), solid sound of the Attack and Sustain would be better, but because there is no room for the sound resonates within the large response, so open loud speakers or broken audio device opened strong, not as hollow electric guitar or acoustic guitar is very easy to plug feedback (feedback) Woo ~ a constant, solid piano and string vibration energy also can keep longer, so Rock, Metal, most applicable to high-volume use.


Hollow Electric Guitar (Hollow body) as string vibration mostly only reached the piano panel, produced a different sound effects, mainly absorbed a part of the brightness and sustain, so that sounds warmer, with produce hollow resonance of the piano sound, making bombs Jazz music is the most applicable to the type of piano that hollow, of course, like the open sound too loud or broken, it will trouble some feedback problems.


empty heart (Semi-hollow) is generally depicting the above advantages and disadvantages of both, as the Gibson ES-335 is the most famous piano one of the empty heart, it looks like a thin hollow or piano, but it In fact, the middle part of which is solid wood, so I do not plug bombs, not as hollow electric guitar guitar as close to normal resonance volume, but nothing like the solid volume, this empty hollow heart of course, than the whole of Attack , sustain more, less feedback problems, also maintained some hollow resonance of sound.


neck design


first necessary to stress that the standard length (Scale Length), which is resisted from nut to bridge length of string around between sites, Fender Stratocaster, Telecaster, and a number of British brands Metal piano is 25.5?, This is the most common specification, Gibson Les Paul, SG and so those are 24.75 British?, PRS Most models are between 25.1 United Kingdom between the two?, 60 years of Jaguar-type Bi Caterers some figures that shorter, less common now . Scale Length

if a longer, more strings will be stretched too tight, it makes a strong string vibration sound brighter, sustain much longer, relatively shorter if the Scale Length, less strings stretched too tight An Xian fingers feel better, less bright tone, sustain the impact will also be shorter Xu.


again mentioning is the board's copper specifications (Fret Sizd), from the tall and thick to thin, then short, the most common can be divided into Jumbo, Medium Jumbo, Medium, Small fret about these types of , Jumbo's because the quality of string pressure contact with large metal, high-frequency degrees will be more clear to point, and even can be said to have more metal sound, and because of the high copper, let your fingers touch between the board and that friction reduction, push string, string, etc. will shake less effort is easy to show your musical skills in this area, so most of the piano with Jumbo Fret, is the heavy metal type of piano brands.


Small Fret course, in turn, pushed vibrato string string more difficult, but the strings and fingerboard wood, more interactive, so the wood affect the sound too obvious, it can be described as Jumbo Fret more metallic sound, Small Fret more wood sound, Small Fret as low can make you feel very low string height by up, many people like this feeling, but the market loaded moderate Medium fret guitar is the most.


board again in terms of that arc degree (Fretboard Radius), because most of the early piano was designed to bomb Chord, so are more round, as shells closed Chord feeling, not like a hand grip stick, holding a round stick for example, stick a little uncomfortable! but the circular surface cause the push string obstruction big push as the modern string playing a lot of heavy metal, it means the board for a more flat, Fender Vintage those old or 57, 62 Reissue model is very much round, is the radius of 7.25 United Kingdom? the arc (7.25 \radius, Ibanez Most of those heavy metal piano is 17?, visual sense of just looks flat.


also some more complex piano fingerboard curvature, arc-type refers to the composite plate (Compound Radius), which is lower than the position of the arc circle, high cell than those of the flat, from a radius of 14? began gradually to change to After the 12-cell variable 16 ~ 7?, Jackson some of the high-end models is the way it really a good place bombs, and this is my heavy metal piano piano like this one of the main Jackson.


neck thickness also affect your playing comfort factor, thin neck in the Fender model called C-Shaped, in Gibson called Slim Taper or 60 'Style neck, thick Fender called U-Shaped, Gibson called Rounded Neck or 50 'Style Neck, Gibson a kind 59' Style Neck is thick, generally people like to speed missiles selected thin neck, flat fingerboard, but not necessarily, some staff are too big , thin neck seemed to flow, some staff do not hold it like thick, Fender also V-Shaped somewhat triangular grip, and the question of which one kind of for you? person to try the most prospective piano.

neck piano junction


talk about bonding method, this piano sold in the market, there are three:

The first is the lock screw neck How many pieces piano with him (Bolt-on neck), probably the most common method, the advantages can be said to cost less, the neck can be easily broken for one of these two, but the lock is always easier to hit poor stability crooked, crooked neck touch a bit on the whole very few support allowed the sounds.


second is like a Gibson Les Paul, as with the sticky (Set-in, or called a Set-neck), that help sustain, but also by saying that since the middle of sticky resin, wood itself is not not pass through, so do not help sustain better than the lock where to go, but the Set-neck much better than the stability of the lock, and will not hit distortion.


third one is the so-called piano (Neck Through Body), that cost the most expensive, most Maple Neck piece of wood to maintain a certain width to a piano has been the tail end sticking up and down again in two more partial bass wood (such as peach heart wood) constitute the piano, this design is also best sustain the most solid, but critics say it has the performance of the overall sound, and sometimes lock the piano sound than thin.


again mention Single Cutaway and Double Cutaway, is the piano near the neck Office, in order for you to refer to board high lattice shells, cut off an arc, just below the cut is called Single Cutaway, such as Les Paul , Telecaster, both the upper and lower cut is called Double Cutaway, such as Stratocaster, like the thumb button in that panel side bomb bomb of course with Double Cutaway relatively high cell along, some piano behind the lock screw Department also point you to reduce barriers to a more oblique good shells, as well as Ibanez Cutaway bend the strings a lot of very deep, so you play to the last cell is very simple piano than that.


bridge


bridge (Bridge) In addition to the piano strings fixed at the body end of this purpose, it is also affected use of sound and performance factors, talk about a very common kind of like a Gibson Les Paul Tune-O-Matic bridge, Tian Long Ba Bu has been mentioned in another article, it has a Tailpiece string in the support structure of the rear, so that strings are down knuckle, if Tailpiece lower angle of the General Assembly to make chord changes down tight, and therefore more Attack Strong, sound brighter, have better sustain, in turn, to sound warmer, you can increase them, some Jazz with piano, or the kind of Bigsby licensed antique rocking seat, it was back to near Qin Tailpiece End , so to increase the tightness of the total length of string variable is low, relatively warm tone, of course.

fixed bridge some of the piano, wearing a string of six from behind the piano to the front to further penetrate the pressure off bridge, this design makes string in contact with the piano and wood, wood tone of the factors affecting more prominent. Bridge material also affects sound because the string's vibration energy will spread to bridge, like a lot of cheap guitar with steel, and relatively poor sound


then shake in terms of seat-type bridge, of course, the most common kind of like a Fender so-called \balance, but little shake because the friction between Nut and Strings,Electric guitar parts, easy to roll the pitch after the run, so did Floyd Rose was invented so-called \Little Wing Nut skips shake problem, this lock can shake a small arc on the tone error is large, heavy metal music a lot of people love to use, shake back seat usually can pull a lot of changes to sound high, it is small Block can not shake out, but shake seat mounted strings, adjustments more complex, the novice may feel more difficult to use.


right hand leaning on a variety of bridge above the bombs also have different comfort level, as Floyd Rose, as the back tilt, many people feel good by hand, although there are those who shake Block new Lo Pro to improve and reduce behind the high tilt, but with the fixed bridge, small is not enough to shake than the flat.


pickup


for pickup (Pickup) can be said to change your guitar sound itself, the easiest way, there are many choices, but talk about some basics.


most original pickups, small size of the enamelled copper wire is wound on a magnet so that the magnetic field in the above range of metal string vibration will produce tiny currents and current signals transmitted through the speaker wires to enlarge.


Gibson in 1935, the first mass production of pickups, like the P90 is the kind of \), and with the same pickup with six iron posts are to balance the six strings of the output (the closer the greater the output string).


1951 年 produce their own single-coil Fender (Single-Coil) big-selling pickup, the performance of single-coil pickups sound bright sharp metallic taste and full of noise, but will have points (AC Hum), 1957 the engineers at Gibson Seth Lover developed mass production of dual-coil (Double-Coil), cases of reverse coil wound with two side by side to offset the AC Hum, it is also known as the Humbucker pickups, but the performance of dual-coil sound with single coil big difference, it sound thicker, warmer, large output, but the high point lot less bright sound.


are a lot of single coil is a special design to remove AC Hum, for example, coil up and down the Stack type, Fender's Noiseless Pickup Stack as a coil-type but not the following sound (as with the traditional single-coil type Stack sounds like), as well as the kind of new design Lace Sensor


pickup of a principle is: the more the coil winding circle, with the greater use of the magnet magnetic (or even to switch to a stronger Alnico magnets Ceramic magnets), the greater the output pickup, but the high point bright sound will be cut more, so most important break with the sound very fierce in the music (broken sound devices will naturally highlight the sharp sound broken up back), to Clean Tone good and usually will select a small output of the pickup.


mentioned above are the so-called \Some preamplifier circuit (Pre-amp), the whole signal amplification, the result is bigger than the passive, so use the battery, so the benefits of this is the pickup magnet is very small, many people complain too passive magnetic field affect the string vibration even pitch, no such specialized small magnet so-called String-Pull issues, and this preamplifier have to Attack increase, even by the former dominated the circuit design level and the output sound performance, but overall in terms of commercially available active pickup with the performance of other large passive sound different, more passive or to be a lot of choice.


Speaker


now commercially available speaker (Amp) has three major, vacuum tubes (Tube), transistor (Solid State, or Transistor), and digital simulation-type (Modeling, such as Line6 products).


current vacuum tube because it was a little resistance, so guitar signal through the pipe, the volts (Voltage) will be reduced slightly, which makes the sound performance of the vacuum tube speaker called Sag, in fact the signal delay caused by micro-Attack soft, but that is all that warm vacuum tube sound reasons, to make it a different musical performance, a strong signal when the pipe was forced to break the sound produced when the vacuum tube will give you a very saturated sound performance of the natural break in general to that has been on the sound immaculate guitarist, or with vacuum tube speaker of choice. But the vacuum tube speaker is expensive and heavy defects.


no current resistance of the transistor, so note clearly degrees (Articulation), the severity of the distinct degree (Headroom),Electric Guitar Electric, and sound are Bi painted tightness of the highlights of ATC, and many want to bomb Clean tone of this performance , such as shells Jazz, would choose such a transistor speakers, such as performance venues are common Roland JC-120


forced a break when the transistor sound speakers, the saturation and naturalness like vacuum tubes, is more artificial, but in low volume whispering bomb, the transistor as less likely to sound like a vacuum tube speaker \get out, \

there is a so-called Hybrid hybrid speakers, vacuum tubes and transistors that have the, depicting some of the advantages of a


Modeling class digital technology is to use a computer, simulating the sound of a variety of names factory speakers, so do not buy dozens of speakers, a Modeling can do, but because digital technology, digital simulation out due to human ears and a realistic sound of the requirements of different instruments, so that no one comments on Modeling, like electronic synthesizer to make like a piano, but the pianist was immaculate disdain a bomb, they are still going to bomb real piano, and a large reason is that although at times sound like the real simulation, but the \Modeling

so buy the biggest advantage is that the speakers sound diversification, if you can accept the digital simulation of the sound, the selection good.