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When choosing an electric guitar in many times you will be confronted with a lot of information about the guitars you are looking at. I wrote this article to try to help explain some of these details in the hope that it will make your decision easier and more confident one.

I will start by describing briefly some of the most commonly used woods. The main body of the guitar is usually made of Agathis, alder, basswood, mahogany, or more recently Paulownia. Mahogany is used for a variety of guitar known for its dark properties and its light weight these two combine to create a warm tone, rounded, very sustainable. Alder is used in high-quality guitars and produces a brighter tone than other woods (such as mahogany) and provides a well rounded resonant tone with excellent sustain. Agathis is a good quality wood and is used for its good qualities of resonance and low-cost production. In the past it was usually used basswood for more expensive models, but due to its better resonance frequency and high average, and better than keeping alder is now more commonly used for guitars of superior quality. Paulownia is a soft wood, light and strong web that is commonly used as a body in high end custom guitars, which is used for its light weight, appearance pale, and his good resonance, it is highly sought.

The guitar neck is usually made of mahogany, sometimes, basswood, or board. A neck made of maple give a sound harder and brighter than one made of mahogany and a maple fingerboard would have a brighter sound than a rose.

Finger plates are usually made of rosewood, maple and ebony in some cases. Rosewood is a term that refers to any of a number of richly colored wood, often with dark brown veins and generally of good quality. Ebony is a dense wood and black is used in some of the more expensive guitars.

When choosing a line of electric guitar you should pay attention to pick ups, electric guitars usually use two types of pick up, single coil and humbucker. One problem with single coil pick ups do not get it is just the sound you're playing, but a little network, as well as singing. The humbucker is designed to come on this, a humbucker is basically two single coil pick ups of opposite magnetic polarity working together, the result is a doubling of production and a more fat, less trebly. Humbucker also can be connected so that they are working in parallel, this produces a much cleaner sound, but is quite rare. When shopping for a guitar on information from pick setting up usually appears like this: SSH, the S referring to a single coil pick up, and H referring to a humbucker, the order of the letters from left the right is the order that the pick ups are on the guitar from the neck to the bridge.

The last (and in my opinion the most important thing), you should consider when buying a guitar is the style - you like the look of it?

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