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Guitar effects
Guitar effects are electronic devices that modify the tone, pitch, or sound of an electric guitar. Effects can be housed in effects pedals, guitar amplifiers, guitar amplifier simulation software, and rackmount preamplifiers or processors. Electronic effects and signal processing form an important part of the electric guitar tone used in many genres, such as rock, pop, blues, and metal. Guitar effects are also used with other instruments in rock, pop, blues, and metal, such as electronic... More »
Chapman Stick
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. He set out to create an instrument designed for the "Free Hands" tapping method of both hands parallel to the frets that he invented in 1969. The first production model of the Stick was shipped in 1974. More »
Guitar speaker
A guitar speaker is a loudspeaker – specifically the driver part – designed for use in or with the guitar amplifier of an electric guitar. Typically these drivers produce only the frequency range relevant to guitars which is similar to a regular woofer type driver which is approximately 75 Hz — 5 kHz. The cones of these drivers typically range in size from 6.5 in to 15 in with 10 and 12 in models being the most popular. More »
Isolation cabinet (guitar)
A guitar speaker isolation cabinet enables turning up the volume of a vacuum tube guitar amplifier to produce power-tube distortion and then driving a guitar speaker and microphone to produce a signal that captures the resulting complex dynamics, at a largely reduced listening volume. More »
Moodswinger
The Moodswinger is a custom made string instrument made by Yuri Landman. Although it closely resembles an electric guitar, it is actually a zither, as it has neither frets nor a proper neck. The pickup and electronics are built into the neck instead of in the body like usual electric guitars. In March 2006 Landman contacted Liars to make an instrument for them. After 6 months he finished 2 copies of ''The Moodswinger'', an electric 12-string 3rd bridge overtone zither, one for... More »
Steel guitar
Steel guitar is: * A method of playing slide guitar using a steel. Resonator guitars, including round necked varieties, are particularly suitable for this style, but other types are also used, usually with modified high actions, as well as instruments produced specifically for the purpose. * A specialised instrument built for playing in steel guitar fashion. These are of several types: ** Lap steel guitar, which may be: *** Lap slide guitar, with a conventional wooden guitar box. More »
Power attenuator (guitar)
In electric Rock guitar, attenuators are used as a dummy load by sending all of the power to the power attenuator's built-in, mostly resistive dummy load and none to the speaker, in order to silence or reduce the output volume of an audio amplifier . More »
Blackie
''For the baseball player, see Alvin Dark.'' Blackie was the affectionate nickname given by Eric Clapton to his favorite Fender Stratocaster. In 1970, Eric Clapton, largely due to the influence of Jimi Hendrix and of Blind Faith bandmate Steve Winwood, switched from using Gibson guitars and began to use Stratocasters. His first, nicknamed "Brownie", due to its sunburst brown finish, was used on his album, ''Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs''. More »
Electric violin
An electric violin is a violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound. The term can refer to a standard violin fitted with an electric pickup of some type, or to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body. Electrically amplified violins have been used in one form or another since the 1920s; jazz and blues artist Stuff Smith is generally credited as being one of the first performers to adapt pickups and amplifiers to violins. More »
Pedal steel guitar
The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal slide to stop the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. The pedal steel is placed horizontally on a stand, with the strings facing up towards the player, and is typically plucked with fingerpicks. The instrument's pedals are used to change the pitch of its strings while being played; the action of the pedals may either be fixed, or may be configurable by the player to select which strings... More »
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