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Choosing the Right Guitar Strings. All guitar strings are either "unwound" - a single solid strand of wire or nylon used on the high E, B and sometimes G strings, or "wound" - a core with a winding-wire wrapped tightly around it.

Choosing the Right Guitar Strings

The method used to wind the strings leads to differences tone and also impacts the playability of your guitar. Round wound strings - "bumpy" feeling, with the most sustain and "bite". The vast majority of guitarists use round wound strings. Half round (ground round) string - feel smoother to the touch. About.com: Pickup (music technology) A pickup device is a transducer that captures mechanical vibrations, usually from suitably equipped stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, electric bass guitar, Chapman Stick, or electric violin, and converts them to an electrical signal that is amplified, recorded, or broadcast.

Pickup (music technology)

The output voltage of magnetic pickups varies between 100 mV rms to over 1 V rms for some of the higher output types[citation needed]. A hard strum on all 6 guitar strings can produce a larger output voltage swing, typically peak voltages of +/- 5 volts for single coil pickups and +/- 10 volt peaks on dual coil pickups[citation needed]. Some high-output pickups achieve this by employing very strong magnets, thus creating more flux and thereby more output. This can be detrimental to the final sound because the magnet's pull on the strings can cause problems with intonation as well as damp the strings and reduce sustain.

PRS's Dragon humbucker An alternative wiring places the coils in buck parallel. Bill Lawrence Website. Single coil. This image shows three single coil pickups on a Stratocaster guitar.

Single coil

Left to right: bridge, middle and neck pickups. String effect on a single coil (electric guitar). The coil is connected to a multimeter that indicates the voltage changes when the string moves. This signal is normally sent to the amplifier. A single coil pickup is a type of magnetic transducer, or pickup, for the electric guitar and the electric bass. History[edit] Beauchamp[edit] Sketch of Rickenbacker "frying pan" lap steel guitar from 1934 patent application. In the mid-1920s George Beauchamp, a Los Angeles, California guitarist, began experimentation with electric amplification of the guitar.

Bass

The Fender Bass Guitar... Explained! The Fender Bass Explained...

The Fender Bass Guitar... Explained!

So many designs, so many names, so many specifications... There really is a Fender Bass for everyone, and we’re going to help you choose yours by breaking down the complex code of what’s what when it comes to the Fender bass. Choosing the Right Guitar Strings. The type of guitar strings you choose, and how often you change them will not only dramatically affect your tone, but also impact the playability of your guitar.

Choosing the Right Guitar Strings

By learning about the different string options available for your guitar, you can find the strings which strike the best balance between great tone and playability. The key components affecting tone and playability come from string gauge, string winding method and the string construction material. String Gauge String gauge refers to the thickness of the guitar string. This thickness in thousandths of an inch. Guitar Strings. About.com: