Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups

Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by disantlor on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:10PM (#27019059)

Tried to second your comment about playing quietly on a very loud amp but looks like it was deleted. So I'll say it here: at some point I tried playing out of a very high headroom amp, fingerstyle, and it completely changed my playing and understanding of the guitar. I "wasted" so many years on small tube amps that break up right away.

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Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by nemo44x on Sunday May 02, 2021 @10:51PM (#27021131)

Get a decent acoustic guitar. If it sounds good on it you’ll probably be able to make it sound excellent on an electric. Every little imperfection in technique shows on an acoustic. Being more difficult to play only helps when moving the piece to an electric.

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Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by TylerE on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:41PM (#27021375)

That works to a point, but there are many subtleties to electric playing, especially lead, that just don't apply to an acoustic.

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Re:Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups by jolux on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:14PM (#27019082)

Sorry about that, reposted ;)

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