All you need to know about the Electric Guitar

Compared to acoustic guitars, electric ones have been around for a fairly short period of time. We are talking 60 to 70 years of active use. Even so, this instrument has completely changed the way we understand music. The electric guitar's almost unlimited flexibility is exactly why so many people start their journey of learning how to play it each year. If this is you right now, you are in the right place.
Today we are going to go over everything you need to know about these sweet electric axes. This article is going to be a guide of sorts. By the time you are done reading, you should be armed with all the necessary information to step into the world of electric guitars with the confidence to choose (and use) a guitar for yourself or to snag one as a gift for someone else. With that said, let's get going.




There are a handful of things you need to be aware of when it comes to guitars. Our recommendations eliminate the need to be hands-on and continually involved with complicated parts, but you should still know they are there and what they do.

HOW DOES AN ELECTRIC GUITAR WORK?

Believe it or not, the basic principle behind electric guitars is fairly simple. So much so that people had experimented with it in the early 20th century, even though the first commercial model came several decades later. The whole point and main emphasis is in the pickups.


These pickups rely on electromagnetic induction to "pick up" the vibration of the strings.  Basically, it emits a magnetic field and as the string vibrates through it this generates an electrical current, which is your audio signal. This information is then sent on to an amplifier. The reason why you need an amplifier is that the original signal from the guitar is not strong enough to be pushed through a loudspeaker without a boost from the amp.
That's why you often times hear terminology such as "instrument level" and "speaker level" signals. Using magnetic pickups to record vibrations works great but is considered the old school way at this point in time.  Nowadays we have other solutions which aren't too different in nature, but a bit more efficient.

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