What’s the difference between an electric guitar and a electric acoustic / elecoustic guitar?
xt0nyx911 asked:
I have a electric acoustic guitar I’m trying to sell to a friend but I don’t know much about guitars. I know how an acoustic guitar sounds from an electric guitar but that’s all
I have a electric acoustic guitar I’m trying to sell to a friend but I don’t know much about guitars. I know how an acoustic guitar sounds from an electric guitar but that’s all
The electric/acoustic guitar amplifies the acoustic sound, so its basically like playing an acoustic guitar with a magic volume raiser
The electric guitar amplifies the vibrations only from the guitar strings, and usually distorts them Josh
An electric acoustic is pretty much just an acoustic that you can plug into an amp and have the sound come out through speakers than just from the guitar itself. To get a really good acoustic sound from the amp though, it needs to be an acoustic amp. If not, the sound may sound distorted.
If you’re just looking for a price you should tell your friend, try looking on guitarcenter.com or musiciansfriend.com and comparing it to what they are charging for your guitar on there. Jeremy
An acoustic/electric is simply an acoustic guitar that has a pickup built in. You can play it unamplified as an acoustic. If you plug it into an amplifier, it’s designed to still sound like an acoustic guitar…just louder.
Acoustic and electric guitars generate sound in different ways, and therefore sound different.
An electric guitar needs an amplifier to be heard at all. Electric guitars use “magnetic” pickups to produce the sound. The sound is created when the strings vibrate in an electro-magnetic field over the pickups. The strings’ vibration is turned into an electric signal and sent to an amplifier.
Acoustic guitars make sound when the strings vibrate the top, causing the sound to resonate inside the body and project out of the sound hole. The pickup in an acoustic/electric guitar is a peizo-electric device that senses the vibration of the bridge or top rather than the actual strings. In this way the acoustic sound is more accurately captured than with a magnetic pickup. TommyMc
Disregard the other two responses. Here’s the correct information.
An electric guitar has one or more magnetic pickups that produce the characteristic “electric” sound. Many electric guitars have solid (as opposed to hollow) bodies because the pickup does all the work so there’s no need for the vibrating strings to cause the sound to come from inside the guitar. Many if not most people who play electric guitars use effects to change the nature of the sound. Distortion is a common effect, sometimes built in to the amp and other times on an effects pedal plugged in to the amp.
An acoustic electric guitar is first and foremost an acoustic guitar. It can be played “unplugged” just like any other acoustic guitar and it will sound like a typical acoustic guitar. But is also has a built-in pickup under the saddle, most commonly a piezoelectric element, that is designed specifically to retain the acoustic sound of the guitar while allowing an amp to make it louder, typically because you’re playing in public. Acoustic amps are designed to cleanly amplify the guitar’s output without any distortion although some acoustic amps have effects like chorus and reverb. Lester G
The electro-acoustic guitar will sound exactly as an acoustic, but you can also plug it into an amp, so it’ll sound louder. That’s all. It’s often used for big gigs, to make the sound louder. John Leyo 1
Electric uses magnetic pickups so the sound transmitted to the amp is a signal which is then conveted to sound by the preamp.
Electric Acoustic use pickups which take the sound of the guitar directly to the amp. therefore the sound is purer, however, most amps’ effects and distortion do not work with an acoustic electric. longestpossibleyahooanswersname!
An electric guitar is all electric. The sound quality isn’t good without an amp. An electric acoustic guitar is an acoustic guitar that can also play as an electric guitar. It has plugs on the side of it and you can plug it into an amp to amplify the sound. An electric acoustic guitar looks like a regualar acoustic. Taffy Rat