While the acoustic guitar sound depends on the vibration body is equipped with air space, the magnitude of an electric guitar sound depends on the magnetic induction of electrical signals generated by the metal strings near the pickups. Signal was formed in the plot toward a aplifiermenggunakan set of sound effects to modify the tone and signal characteristics. Circuit formation of the most common sound is a volume control, gain and tone and pickup selector switch is found in almost all types of electric guitars. Year 1960 some guitarists began to explore a wider coverage in effect penadaan by distorting the sound, by adding the gain and volume of the preamplifier that produces a faint noise (fuzzy). This effect is called "clipping" by the experts because of the sound when shown with oscilloscopes, signal waveform distortion shown truncated at its peak. This is not a recent development in the instrument, but presents a little shift in aesthetics. Year 1960 penadaan colors on the next electric guitar be modified by introducing an effects box in the signal path, built in a metal chassis with a switch on / of the foot. Looks like stomp boxes have become an important part in many musical genres. Sound effects typically include stereo chorus, fuzz, wah-wah, flanging, compression / sustain, delay, reverb and phase shift. Not all of the guitar effects elektrnik 1967, from The Yardbird Jimmy Page and Led Zepelin creating psychedelic sound effects by playing the guitar with a violin bow and hitting the strings with a bow. Years 1980 and 1990, digital effects and Sotware effect can begin replicating the analog effects. Efect digital sound generated is trying to effect analogous to that for varying degrees of quality. So much for the computer program can didownloud efect guitar for free via internet. Now with a computer using a soundcard can be used as a digital guitar effect. But although the digital effects and software many beneficial effects, many guitarists still use analog effects.
Construction of electric guitars
Electric guitar construction consists of many variations, in terms of materials used for guitar bodies, pieces of body shape and placement of neck, bridge, and pickups there are some features found in almost all types of guitars: the headstock; contains nmachine head that is used for tuning the guitar, nut ; the form of a thin piece of metal or plastic long as the support of strings before the fretboard / fingerboard, machine head; a worm gear can be rotated or driven in regulating the string tension to get the tone, fret; the form of a thin metal piece partially embedded into the fretboard, stop functioning strings when the strings pressed to the fretboard to get the desired tone. Neck and fretboard; extends from the nut to the body guitar and the neck joint, neck or dibaut glued to the body of the guitar, the body, made of hardwood and stained divernis, but some of the guitar body is made of polycarbonate and other materials, pickups, usually in the form magnetic pickups, controls knop; form of potentiometers for volume and tone, fixed bridge on some guitars, the bridge is not fixed is used as a substitute tremolo system allows players to bend the tone and vibrato are also showing the effects on his guitar playing.
Early years
The need for a strong guitar sound more real in the big band era, marked by the growing-orchestra, jazz orchestra in 1930 and 1940.
Early years
Electric guitar was originally designed by guitar maker, lover of electronics and appliances manufacturer musik.Inovator adapting Les Paul guitar with hollow bodied instruments with tungsten pickups wear, the guitar of this type began to be produced by the Electro String Instrument Corporation in 1932. Their first design was made by Harry Watson, an expert who worked at the Electro String new Company.Gitar was named "Rickenbacker" by the company and be the first of its kind. The first documentation of performance with electric guitar is the year 1932 by a guitarist and bandleader Gage Brewer. Brewew publish his new instrument in an article in the Wichita Beacon on 2 October 1932 and continued to appear in the month. The first recording with electric guitar made by players like Andy Iola Hawaiian Style in early 1933. Alvino Rey is the artist who brought this instrument to a wider audience of a large orchestral setting, and then developed with the pedal steel guitar to Gibson Ediie Durham introduced the instrument electric spanish guitar to a young man named Charlie Christian who made the instrument famous in his life journey and generally known as the first electric guitar and also brings great influence into jazz until the next decade. Spanish first electric guitar recording is in Dallas September 1939, in a session by Roy Newman and His Boys, a Western Swing band. The guitarist Jim Boyd uses electric guitar throughout the recording three songs one of them "Corinne, Corrina." Early on guitar manufacturers include: Rickenbacker in 1932, 1933 Dobro, National, Audio Vox and Volu-Ton in 1934, Vega, Epiphone, and Gibson in 1936, and more since 1936. Version of the most recognizable instrument currently is Solid Bodied Electric Guitar or berbodi solid electric guitar, made from solid wood with no air space in bodinya. Rickenbacker offers an electric guitar with an aluminum mold nicknamed The Frying Pan or The Pancake Guitar. Developed in 1931 and began production in 1932 spring season, this guitar produces a modern sound and aggressive. Audio Vox companies create and may have offered solid body guitar in the mid-1930. An other solid guitar designed by a musician and inventor Les Paul in early 1940, he worked part time in Epiphone Guitar. Log Guitarnya guitar has been patented and is often regarded as the first of its kind.
Good wood for guitars
1. Wood Lasi: Including into special kinds of wood! Other names are KILAKI. Adina type species Fagifolia Val. Rubiaceae tribe. This wood has a nice & heavy drought who classified types who not too heavy.
Wood color is dark yellow, with a flower pattern is, the power of violence is, who combined with fiber. Growing up in the area around Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara! this timber if it is in the finishing is very luxurious and relatively expensive for the disposable wooden musical instrument .. but rarely you know that and start there overseas manufacturers who use it for guitar / bass!
2. Ebony Wood: Wood-me-not foreign to the industry on the guitar in the World to make freetboard or plywood top & middle Body! Other names are Macasar Ebony, wood charcoal, wood Coromandel & black! its Latin name Dyospiros spp. Ebenaceae family or tribe. Growing up in central and southeast Sulawesi Around (Maluku).
black and gray in color alternating intervals younger, and sometimes black. nature of its hard & hard working, violence is developing a large fiber. coarse texture. Wood is suitable for musical instruments, tools, carving ..
3. Cempaka Wood: other names are Baros yellow to brown red. violence is. There's Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi. This wood is now being tested for many of the ingredients make a musical instrument, because the wood belonging to high-poll good resonance. with fiber-tight.
4. Wood Sonokeling: Other names are Sonobrits, Palisander, Indian Wood, sono sungu! its Latin name Dalbergialatifolia Roxb. with dark red / purple with black stripes. This wood is very hard types who, even harder than in Ebony! and if the pads can be very soft. there on Java! Frettboard usually used also as a guitar / bass and guitar are almost all industries use it as very similar to Ebony just more black ebony.
5. Mahogany: or the outside world called Magohany wood! original timber Indonesian most widely in search for the body material made guitar / bass. Manufacturers Gibson, PRS etc using this type of wood as raw material for his guitar. This wood pale brown to dark brown. wood hundreds of years old is very good ingredients made in Body & neck guitar / bass.
Wood was found by the American people in Indonesian used to be, it is more known as American Mahogany! This wood is now becoming scarce in Indonesian because many of the ingredients make exported to the guitar / bass and other musical instruments.
Fiber is very dense, if the chain saw or treated is not easy sompal & tidy. not hairy. This wood count the best wood for guitar in the World. Growing up in west and central Java around Kidiri.
6. Sungkai Wood: This wood-been ruled guitar-making materials in an era of 80/90 years. Very similar to wood and fiber from the American Ash wood color. resonant sound produced is good enough. old old wood is very good. young yellow to dark yellow.
Ibanez guitar history
Ibanez may be one of the guitar maker from Japan's most famous. Ibanez guitar company was founded in Nagoya, Japan in 1957 as a subsidiary of Hoshino Gakki, a Japanese importer of musical instruments guitars Ibanez started to make models and variants of its own.
At first Ibanez guitars to make a duplicate of America's design. In early models including the 2364, is a duplication of famous guitar models Ampeg And Armstrong made of clear plastic. Ibanez guitars 2347 model is a duplicate of the 2351 model which is very similar to Gibson Les Paul model, and model 2348 is an almost perfect duplicate of the model of Gibson's non-reverse Firebird. A copy of a successful variant of a model created by a very good guitar Ibanez almost be equated with the original models, and this makes the company gibson guitar for Ibanez guitars will sue the company of copyright infringement in 1977. But strangely, the claim was not addressed to the design of the guitar body similar to Ibanez gibson guitar design but intended for the design of the headstock of Ibanez guitars and later at the finish in court in 1978. This spurred the company to introduce ibanes guitar guitars Ibanez's own design.
Some of the design is "the destroyers", the design of this model is similar to the gibson guitar design with additional exlporer on Ibanez's classic shape and pointed headstock. Model "the artist" uses the more traditional form with two short cutaways of the same magnitude and changes in the headstock to avoid copyright problems. Model "the rocket roll" is a duplication of the Gibson Flying V guitar models, but Ibanez use the "pointed headstock" and without "scratchplate". While the model of "the Iceman" has a unique design model and unusual. By using the model of the Gibson Explorer with "cut-down-left-hand side, a unique notch in the bottom and a large cutaway on the right hand horn, which allow access to a higher fret. Initially the model "the destroyers" are available with two or three humbucking pickups, the model "the artist" only with two humbucking pickups, and "The Iceman" with two Ibanez humbuckers or pickup design with three coils. Model "The Iceman" and model "the artist" was still in the ranks of Ibanez guitars and even until the year 2008.
Classification of the 80s saw many improvements to the range of Ibanez guitars and then add a "status" on an Ibanez guitar. This company is a pioneer and chairman of the exponent of "the superstart", a model that is still popular until today. model "superstart" is a model of Fender Stratocasater but is specifically designed for heavy-metal guitarist. At that time, tidah only Ibanez guitars are developing this model. Several other companies such as Jackson and Chavel also contribute. In terms of visuals, "superstrat" is normally without scratchplate Stratocaster, longer, pointed horns, and Deeper cutaways. This model also has a 24-fret, Floyd Rose tremolo system and three pickups.
The main line of "superstrat" on an Ibanez guitar model "RG". This guitar was first introduced in 1985 and later joined by "The saber" with relatively the same shape but with a less pointed horns, and a slim body design that may even be a guitar thinnest ever produced. In the late 1980s, the guitar Ibanez collaborated with talented guitarist Steve Vai who had previously joined with Whitesnake, David Lee Roth's solo band, and his own Solo. Steve Vai has lost his favorite custom guitar "Chavel Guitar" which was stolen. So he needs a new guitar. Steve Vai and Ibanez successfully designing superstrat with 24 fret, the aforementioned pickup configuration and grab handles on the body is known by the Vai as mongkey grip. He and Ibanez also designed a guitar with seven strings, called "the Universe".
Other artists who have worked with Ibanez and released the historic models including Paul Gilbert signature model with PGM, Joe Satriani Signature model JS, Herman Li and Sam Totman to the E-Gen and STM models, also Munky Apex signature model.
