Posted by mieke at 7 February , 2009

Acoustic Electric Guitars

Executive summary about acoustic electric guitar by Seth Miller

An acoustic guitar is hollow with a sound hole (a round hole in the face). An electric acoustic guitar is made up of wood and has six strings which produce a rhythmic, sweet, musical, yet loud sound. The difference between an acoustic electric guitar and an electric guitar is that a normal electric guitar can only be played when it is plugged in, where as an acoustic electric guitar doesn’t have to be.

Plugging in an electric acoustic guitar gives it an awesome sound. The electric guitars have a lot of knobs to deal with, whereas the acoustic electric guitars can be used as a normal guitar or an electric guitar. The strings of electric guitars are soft, and much easier to press. If asked to recommend what type of guitar is the best buy, then the acoustic electric guitar will definitely take a higher edge in recommendation as it can be used two ways: as a normal acoustic guitar to play it normally and as an electric guitar to be played when plugged in an electric socket.

The sound produced by an acoustic electric guitar when not plugged in is the same as a normal acoustic guitar, and when plugged in it sounds like a good electric guitar.

Tips For Playing Electric Acoustic Guitar

Executive summary about acoustic electric guitar by Mike P Hayes

Tips for playing acoustic electric guitar: tip 1

The guitar must sound great without the pick up and amplification, no amount of electrical effects can save a poor sounding acoustic instrument.

Tips for playing acoustic electric guitar: tip 2

What type of acoustic guitar do you need? Do you need a six string, steel strung guitar? Would a nylon string acoustic guitar be more suitable? If you are a solo artist maybe a 12 string acoustic guitar would be best.

Tips for playing acoustic electric guitar: tip 3

What size acoustic guitar will you need? In theory a Jumbo size acoustic guitar should give us the best acoustic sound. In some cases this in not practical because of the sheer size of the instrument and the size of the person playing the guitar.

The most popular size is the dreadnaught size acoustic guitar.

Tips for playing acoustic electric guitar: tip 4

Working on our “best acoustic guitar sound” theory it makes sense that the standard acoustic (non cut-a-way) guitar will have a fuller, richer sound as the guitar top is left intact.

Tips for playing acoustic electric guitar: tip 5

Public enemy number one of the acoustic guitar is feedback.

A simple way to overcome the feedback issue is to:

(a)    use a “feedback buster”

(b)   don’t face your acoustic guitar into the speakers

So, take your time a get the best acoustic guitar

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