the whole time I was skipping around the video looking for the part where the explanation comes in. turns out all I had to do what put in my left earphone...
What about using a Fender Twin Reverb Amp, as an example of an amplifier that distorts! It is of common knowledge that the Twin is one of the cleanest and most difficult to distort amp (to do that you need to play at deafening volumes or use distortion pedals)
You're right in parts, it is obvious that the sound of the pickup has a strong influence on the final result, but most of the time your hands are on the ropes and that is where the wooden acting, after all is the wave vibration of the wood that will interfere in how the string will vibrate the maeiras can make a tremendous gain or a sound fatter. Now all I have to say is that all the components influence the sound.
While everything has an effect on the overall tone, certain things can be disregarded because of how minimal their impact is. The slightest temperature change can effect tone. But tone wood definitely has such a small impact that it can be disregarded. If you wanted to correct this video, you should have corrected the fact that not all guitars have tremolos and the effect itself isn't called "tremolo", it's called "vibrato"
1:36 Tremolo: Repeated plucking of the string resolving to a note being played fast consistently. Whammy bar produces vibrato, bending or sliding effect. Not tremolo....
The whammy or tremolo bar does not create a tremolo effect. It creates a vibrato effect. This is a common misconception, it should be called a vibrato bar.
For me tremolo sounds like when the sound's constantly changing between quiet and loud. The whammy bar doesn't do that but it changes the pitch of the sound and the word "vibrato" is often used to describe the changing between the higher and lower note, so yes, it should have been called vibrato bar instead.
I'm a violinist not a guitarist - producing a vibrato effect is ridiculously easy just by using your finger(s) on the string(s). Wtf is the reason for making a whole pain in the ass "whammy bar" that you have to fidget with?
@Nada Penny because of the frets (the bars on the fingerboard). These frets divide the board in discrete notes. Per fret is one note, no matter where on the fret you put it. When you try to play vibrato like on a violin your finger will always stay on the same fret, thus producing the exact same tone. Which is why a different mechanism is used to get vibrato. On violin, since the board is completely free of frets, any tiny change in finger position will have an effect on the tone, so you can use your finger
not really, because I knew for demonstration purposes he needed to, and it's probably cheap too, what bothered me was that he cut the strings...THAT was completely unnecessary
Then why are they using cheap ceramic single coil pickups, cheap pots and cheap switches? That switch is the exact same one you'd find in a Squier Bullet.
2024 and this video competes incredibly against the modern videos of today with 3-D renderings this man literally cut open a whole guitar and added highlight effects. This matches exactly to my learning style .The quality of this video is far ahead of its time
3:36 Basic physics tells us that the tension is the same throughout a particular string. Something else (resonance? harmonics?) make the bridge and neck pickups sounds different. Help me out, anyone?
@MrKockabilly Harmonics? Yes. A com plete answer involves some maths and physics(statics) that are beyond the scope of musicians. So I will make it brief. All ropes, cables, strings, wires pulled between two points sag , even if tension is increased higher and higher -- only the sag curve (known as catenary) becomes less and less visible to human eye. This is because strings etc have got its own weight, hence gravity acts on it. To attain zero sag the tension to be applied is infinity (tan90 degrees), long before which the string breaks. So guitar string sag in the middle portion, there is a slack in this portion, hence more free to vibrate than the part closer to bridge. Now the answer : Because of the slack, neck portion's vibration will be rich in lower harmonics(bass tone); because of the absence of slack , the bridge portion's vibration will be poor in lower harmonics but rich in higher harmonics -- treble tone. So pickup's input varies in accordance with its location. Sorry for being too long !
They divided the guitar in 2 pieces so that we could see how tremolo works. At least it increased some on my knowledge. Thanks. Do Keep posting Videos like this.
Just a correction, the whammy bar creates a vibrato effect. Its a misconception, tremolo Is notes played rapidly in a consecutive manner, usually on 1 note.
My dad and i found an Ibanez in eBay for 150 bucks and after watching this im Like how can any guitar ever BE that Low priced No Mather the Brand or Type thats such an amazing piece of Art
You declare war to many guitarist/guitar maker when you say the body doesn't contribute to the sound. There is a reason why wood is still the material of an electric guitar.
Pickups are magnets that only metal things like strings have an effect on their magnetic fields creating the signal that is sent to the amp. Wood has no effect on the pickups. Les Paul's and Strat's have different sounds because of diff pickups. Run the same guitar through diff amp and you will get diff sounds as well. Tone wood is a myth created by manufacturers to get gullible customers to buy their product over someone else's.
It's the magnetic field induced in the string which causes the flux in the coil to change rather than the string affecting the magnetic field of the pickup magnet.
@Chris Snow. Flux in the coil ..........that is a lot confusing. The coil is copper wire, a non-magnetic conductor. Current induced in the coil changing in accordance with vibration frequency of string that is a magnetic ssubstance -- that is okay.
@@tvoommen4688 By that I mean the lines of magnetic flux (around the string) passing through the coil. Here are some links that explain it better than I! bit.ly/2BQNmfK and search this article: bit.ly/2DktbHV for the word Nuts.
i guess you could technically use solver since thats the best conductor of electricity but that'd be expensive so the second best option is copper, other metals like aluminum are not exactly the best conductors of electricity
They talk about the incoming current. But maybe more to the point is that the current in already there and the strings are inducing fluctuations in that current.
connect your electric guitar to tuner(i hve one on my pc) that also shows you the frequency and it will say 110hz,the high e string vibrates at only ~329.the a string on a violin is 440hz.
It does if you chamber the body, and add wooden blocks for mounting the pickups. Also helps if it's a neck thru body. Lots of things contribute to a guitar's sustain.
Technically a vibrato is a quick variation in amplitude whereas a tremolo is a quick variation in pitch, the effect of the whammy bar on the strings changes their tension and creates a tremolo effect, the change in amplitude being anecdotal and more of a side effect.
@@philmccracken6134 O dear, you are absolutely wrong; vibrato is the slight change in pitch (frequency) , tremolo being the slight change in loudness (amplitude). That lever change the tension, thereby pitch , hence vibrato effect.
@@tvoommen4688 You're absolutely right, sorry for this mistake i made after hearing about tremolo bars for too long. Thank you for correcting me and have a marvellous day sir.
1:35 "it loosens or tightens the strings to create a tremolo effect"... This is incorrect. First, not all guitars have tremolos. Second, while that specific style of bridge may be called a "tremolo", this term is actually incorrect. It is actually a vibrato effect, and the incorrect naming of this system was due to Leo Fender getting the terms confused.
Not completely impossible! ^w^ A wireless electric guitar's transmitter could be powered by your own body heat with advanced enough low power transmission technology. Then on the other end, the signal broadcast by the guitar could be picked up by your audience's virtual hearing implants to directly stimulate their brains so no amp will be needed. The future will be beautiful, truly beautiful
I think quality (wood & shape) gives the dampening of the strings - technically it doesn't contribute a whole lot (sic!) to the sound. The phrase "two volt current" disturbs me a lot more. :)
I am repairing or shall i saw totally remaking my bass guitar but don't know what goes inside but since no one cares about bass then i guess we go with that
However, the different woods you use can affect the sound. Besides the fact that les pauls have hum buckers and strats single coils, they sound different because usually les pauls are made with mahogany and a maple top and strats with ash or alder, which isn't as warm of a sound as the mahogany. Also the thickness of the wood matters too in the tone of the guitar.
some of the info on here is a little primary school - for example, the amplifier doesnt amplify the current, it amplifies the voltage (amplitude) and then the power.
a lot of what the guy says is bullshit for example the empty a string of a guitar vibrates with 110 Hz not with 440 Hz 440 Hz would be two octaves higher like the hight e string in the 5th fret
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw I think so haha The video has nice shots and you dont always see someone opening up a guitar like that. I thought that was the point of the video
Actually the A string vibrates at 110 Hz, not 440 Hz, as the guitar is an instrument which transposes an octave down (from the notated score), and the A string is, in any case, an octave below the "Concert A" pitch, which does vibrate at 440 Hz (top string, 5th fret). Pretty rubbish info for a video that's supposed to be educational.
I don't know why religous guitar players come to these videos. Guitar pickups are a go to example of electromagnetics in physics classes and it's a bit weird to believe that wood act in the whole magnetics of the thing. Then, a TV channel makes a video explaining it and people come here to disagree with the theory and to bash on details like "the A string does not vibrate at 440hz". It's not to say that wood doesn't mean anything at all to the guitar, but it may account for other things, like tuning stability and resonance and sustain, since a body that vibrates more with the strings will in response make the string vibrate a little longer, but again, it wouldn't affect on the frequencies (the main pitch and harmonics) that the strings produce, which is the only thing that pickups interact with.
Was just going to say that! Unless you're running a MIDI connection. In which you can be playing strings strapped to a 2x4, and it wouldn't make any difference sense a computer is what is generating the tone.
Slowed Chopped, that is untrue. The body material will drastically change the tone. Look up the Ola Strandburg Varburg guitar video on here, and it is explained very well what the materials do.
Thank god I kept looking, I wanted to know how they work but I just got a bunch of middle aged white men telling me I was playing guitar wrong. I don't even play guitar, I just want to know how they work!
the whole time I was skipping around the video looking for the part where the explanation comes in. turns out all I had to do what put in my left earphone...
😂😂😂
My earphone is only right wtf
@@whytho9350 you have them backwards
Lololol
Thank you, I was going to dislike the video because there's no explaination
My left ear enjoyed this video
i thought my speakers fucked up at first
Same cause i only have one earbud lol bahahaha
northerness accent?
Canadian.. That's where Roberto Godin has his factory..
Right ear had some good ass music
I love how they censored the guitar's brand, but not the pickups.
yeah, what's up with that? That doesn't make sense. They spent all this time on visuals and got the facts wrong too.
The Shepherd of Fire love your name and profile pic!
What about using a Fender Twin Reverb Amp, as an example of an amplifier that distorts! It is of common knowledge that the Twin is one of the cleanest and most difficult to distort amp (to do that you need to play at deafening volumes or use distortion pedals)
What make of guitar was it, I'm not sure but it looked like PSR but I don't know!
Nor the amp
I like how Godin wanted their brand to be blurred but the pickups are not blurred lol
ChuranuQC They uncensored it near the end
You're right in parts, it is obvious that the sound of the pickup has a strong influence on the final result, but most of the time your hands are on the ropes and that is where the wooden acting, after all is the wave vibration of the wood that will interfere in how the string will vibrate the maeiras can make a tremendous gain or a sound fatter. Now all I have to say is that all the components influence the sound.
While everything has an effect on the overall tone, certain things can be disregarded because of how minimal their impact is. The slightest temperature change can effect tone. But tone wood definitely has such a small impact that it can be disregarded. If you wanted to correct this video, you should have corrected the fact that not all guitars have tremolos and the effect itself isn't called "tremolo", it's called "vibrato"
1:36 Tremolo: Repeated plucking of the string resolving to a note being played fast consistently.
Whammy bar produces vibrato, bending or sliding effect. Not tremolo....
The whammy or tremolo bar does not create a tremolo effect. It creates a vibrato effect. This is a common misconception, it should be called a vibrato bar.
But isnt the vibrato effect made my bigsby bridges? And the tremolo effect was made by floating bridges like floyd rose
For me tremolo sounds like when the sound's constantly changing between quiet and loud. The whammy bar doesn't do that but it changes the pitch of the sound and the word "vibrato" is often used to describe the changing between the higher and lower note, so yes, it should have been called vibrato bar instead.
we could call it a "vibrato bar" or we could call it something shorter...
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a vibrator
I'm a violinist not a guitarist - producing a vibrato effect is ridiculously easy just by using your finger(s) on the string(s). Wtf is the reason for making a whole pain in the ass "whammy bar" that you have to fidget with?
@Nada Penny because of the frets (the bars on the fingerboard). These frets divide the board in discrete notes. Per fret is one note, no matter where on the fret you put it. When you try to play vibrato like on a violin your finger will always stay on the same fret, thus producing the exact same tone. Which is why a different mechanism is used to get vibrato. On violin, since the board is completely free of frets, any tiny change in finger position will have an effect on the tone, so you can use your finger
No Gibson guitars were harmed in this video.
Thank You Jesus..
Thanks. You answered my question! I was wondering how they work for ages!
no problem!
never knew this was so complex :O but damn, this is one of best inventions ever
nice meme
Time travel from 2020
This is a great video that shows me a very clear idea about the electric guitar
My left ear was listening all info while my right ear was dancing at the background music
If you critics are so knowledgeable why you here anyway? I'm super happy to have learned this stuff
Did anyone else cringe when he cut the guitar!! :O
not really, because I knew for demonstration purposes he needed to, and it's probably cheap too, what bothered me was that he cut the strings...THAT was completely unnecessary
Godin guitars are not cheap...
Then why are they using cheap ceramic single coil pickups, cheap pots and cheap switches? That switch is the exact same one you'd find in a Squier Bullet.
The more expensive the guitar the more views. LOL
CHEAP WTF? Godins are top Canadian brand guitars! NOT cheap!
2024 and this video competes incredibly against the modern videos of today with 3-D renderings this man literally cut open a whole guitar and added highlight effects. This matches exactly to my learning style .The quality of this video is far ahead of its time
3:36 Basic physics tells us that the tension is the same throughout a particular string. Something else (resonance? harmonics?) make the bridge and neck pickups sounds different. Help me out, anyone?
@MrKockabilly
Harmonics? Yes. A com plete answer involves some maths and physics(statics) that are beyond the scope of musicians. So I will make it brief.
All ropes, cables, strings, wires pulled between two points sag , even if tension is increased higher and higher -- only the sag curve (known as catenary) becomes less and less visible to human eye. This is because strings etc have got its own weight, hence gravity acts on it. To attain zero sag the tension to be applied is infinity (tan90 degrees), long before which the string breaks.
So guitar string sag in the middle portion, there is a slack in this portion, hence more free to vibrate than the part closer to bridge.
Now the answer :
Because of the slack, neck portion's vibration will be rich in lower harmonics(bass tone); because of the absence of slack , the bridge portion's vibration will be poor in lower harmonics but rich in higher harmonics -- treble tone. So pickup's input varies in accordance with its location. Sorry for being too long !
@@tvoommen4688 Thanks, good explanation. And no it's not too long. In fact it is quite concise considering the nature of this topic.
Love these videos Triwood, keep 'em coming!
They divided the guitar in 2 pieces so that we could see how tremolo works. At least it increased some on my knowledge. Thanks. Do Keep posting Videos like this.
1:16 They have blurred something out there, left of center. Again at 3:22 .
The logo?
Ah these good 'ol left ear only videos. Gotta love them, right?
Just a correction, the whammy bar creates a vibrato effect. Its a misconception, tremolo Is notes played rapidly in a consecutive manner, usually on 1 note.
Wow...... electromagnetic music... Thank you Nicholas Tesla!!!!!!!
Thanks to James Clerk Maxwell actually
@@caliskanata thanks to Faraday actually ;)
Very helpful video mainly because of the "highlighting animations". 👍👌
My dad and i found an Ibanez in eBay for 150 bucks and after watching this im Like how can any guitar ever BE that Low priced
No Mather the Brand or Type thats such an amazing piece of Art
You declare war to many guitarist/guitar maker when you say the body doesn't contribute to the sound. There is a reason why wood is still the material of an electric guitar.
"doesnt contribute a whole lot"
And their point is that it does. A whole bloody lot.
Pickups are magnets that only metal things like strings have an effect on their magnetic fields creating the signal that is sent to the amp. Wood has no effect on the pickups. Les Paul's and Strat's have different sounds because of diff pickups. Run the same guitar through diff amp and you will get diff sounds as well. Tone wood is a myth created by manufacturers to get gullible customers to buy their product over someone else's.
Hard materials like the nut and bridge? Strings never touch the wood.
That's right! Lol! Lets face it the only reason wood is even still used is because most players are traditionalists, and wouldn't buy a composite.
This guitar had a bolt - on neck, but there are also ones with sticked neck like gibsons
I just relized I have been wearing my earbud wrong this whole time... My right ear really enjoyed this...
Yet another great video from Triwood!
The string tension is higher near the bridge? Variable tension strings???
Patent Pending :-)
It's the magnetic field induced in the string which causes the flux in the coil to change rather than the string affecting the magnetic field of the pickup magnet.
@Chris Snow. Flux in the coil ..........that is a lot confusing. The coil is copper wire, a non-magnetic conductor. Current induced in the coil changing in accordance with vibration frequency of string that is a magnetic ssubstance -- that is okay.
@@tvoommen4688 By that I mean the lines of magnetic flux (around the string) passing through the coil. Here are some links that explain it better than I! bit.ly/2BQNmfK and search this article: bit.ly/2DktbHV for the word Nuts.
It hurts my eyes to see a beautiful guitar like that being sawed into pieces.
I'm enjoying this video while sitting on the right if the man who speaks.
My left ear loved this narration
Did you just cut a Godin ins half? oh man!
'the metal lever'... great explanation
its a Rodin guitar. they are made in Canada and USA and very well made and priced great.
godin
Instead of coper wire can u use other metal like aluminium?
i guess you could technically use solver since thats the best conductor of electricity but that'd be expensive so the second best option is copper, other metals like aluminum are not exactly the best conductors of electricity
They talk about the incoming current. But maybe more to the point is that the current in already there and the strings are inducing fluctuations in that current.
440 Hz is the A on the first string, 5th fret (A4), NOT the open 5th string (which is an A2). That's 110 Hz.
Who is the guitarist who plays the guitar in this video?
My left ear sends it's regards.
i really hate that the voice is only on the left speaker
connect your electric guitar to tuner(i hve one on my pc) that also shows you the frequency and it will say 110hz,the high e string vibrates at only ~329.the a string on a violin is 440hz.
Tuned correctly, the A on a standard scale 6 string electric is a 'middle A' which is 440Hz. A can also be 27.50, 55.00, 110.00, 220, 880, etc...
It does if you chamber the body, and add wooden blocks for mounting the pickups. Also helps if it's a neck thru body. Lots of things contribute to a guitar's sustain.
I'm pretty sure the A string is 220 Hz, as 440 Hz is the A above middle C, which is 1 or 2 octaves above the A string on a guitar
Thanks dude, it was a fantastic video
110 hz, 440hz is at the 24th fret. Vibrato, not tremolo.
Technically a vibrato is a quick variation in amplitude whereas a tremolo is a quick variation in pitch, the effect of the whammy bar on the strings changes their tension and creates a tremolo effect, the change in amplitude being anecdotal and more of a side effect.
The mistake about the frequency was indeed the worst...
@@philmccracken6134 O dear, you are absolutely wrong; vibrato is the slight change in pitch (frequency) , tremolo being the slight change in loudness (amplitude). That lever change the tension, thereby pitch , hence vibrato effect.
@@tvoommen4688 You're absolutely right, sorry for this mistake i made after hearing about tremolo bars for too long. Thank you for correcting me and have a marvellous day sir.
What about hollows, semi-hollows, and electroacoustic guitars?
Fascinating!!!
my left ear enjoyed this !
So what was the purpose of cutting that nice in half?
1:35 "it loosens or tightens the strings to create a tremolo effect"...
This is incorrect. First, not all guitars have tremolos. Second, while that specific style of bridge may be called a "tremolo", this term is actually incorrect. It is actually a vibrato effect, and the incorrect naming of this system was due to Leo Fender getting the terms confused.
I hope one day, there'll be wireless electric guitar that dosent need an amp and never dies. I know, that's impossible.
Not completely impossible! ^w^
A wireless electric guitar's transmitter could be powered by your own body heat with advanced enough low power transmission technology. Then on the other end, the signal broadcast by the guitar could be picked up by your audience's virtual hearing implants to directly stimulate their brains so no amp will be needed. The future will be beautiful, truly beautiful
@rockonmady 440Hz is an A. Low E is c. 330Hz and high E is c. 1.3kHz.
ok now how does an electric guitar with nylon strings work (e.g. yamaha SLG 200N)?
It hurts my soul to see a Godin basically cut in half D:
But now my brain knows more, thanks to you. :D
was sawing it necessary?
*I SAWED THIS GUITAR IN HALF!*
I think quality (wood & shape) gives the dampening of the strings - technically it doesn't contribute a whole lot (sic!) to the sound. The phrase "two volt current" disturbs me a lot more. :)
My left ear enjoyed that
how many times did he say pickup
nice, excellent video!
I am repairing or shall i saw totally remaking my bass guitar but don't know what goes inside but since no one cares about bass then i guess we go with that
thanks! exactly what I was looking for.
However, the different woods you use can affect the sound. Besides the fact that les pauls have hum buckers and strats single coils, they sound different because usually les pauls are made with mahogany and a maple top and strats with ash or alder, which isn't as warm of a sound as the mahogany. Also the thickness of the wood matters too in the tone of the guitar.
Awesome video. Well said.
some of the info on here is a little primary school - for example, the amplifier doesnt amplify the current, it amplifies the voltage (amplitude) and then the power.
That’s a damn good video!!
a lot of what the guy says is bullshit
for example the empty a string of a guitar vibrates with 110 Hz not with 440 Hz
440 Hz would be two octaves higher like the hight e string in the 5th fret
I have only one earphone and didnt know he commented something until I read your comment.
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw I think so haha The video has nice shots and you dont always see someone opening up a guitar like that. I thought that was the point of the video
guitar pickups are not microphones, a solid body is necessary for mounting the hardware, still guitar pickups do not pickup wood, end of story
Who See This Masterpiece Old Video on 2021
Thank you Maxwell!
1:38 a *vibrato effect, not tremolo.
It tremolo
nice video ... but ooo my left ear hurts :D
Why the voice is planned to the left I have no idea
Actually the A string vibrates at 110 Hz, not 440 Hz, as the guitar is an instrument which transposes an octave down (from the notated score), and the A string is, in any case, an octave below the "Concert A" pitch, which does vibrate at 440 Hz (top string, 5th fret). Pretty rubbish info for a video that's supposed to be educational.
i caught this too, good job. this is very important to know if you don't have a tuner, you can tune a whole guitar with just a 110Hz tuning fork
Yeah. And how does the tension change over the length of the string? It doesn't.
if the A string is an octave below A 440 would that not make it 220Hz
Fail
1:19
the Godin logo on the body is blurred but on the pickups you clearly can see godin and seymor duncan
I wanted an electric guitar, these guys are cuttig up one
Why cant everyone explain things this clear
what happen to the guitar after?
I watched this with only my right headphone in and felt like I was losing my mind until about 1:30 or so
whats a tremalal effect
Tremolo
CONGRATULATIONS! You have discovered the secret of voice acting!
I thought the body effects the sustain of the guitar?
Wait can you play an electric guitar anywhere? I always thought it needs to be plugged lmao xD
3:55: "unplugged, the 2v current from the string's vibrations..." WHAAAAAAAAT? voltage is measured in volts, current is measured in amps!!!!
Super performance
0:36 Top 1 Pain of a poor guitarist
thanks! very helpfull
Thanks Triwood!
remember when your teacher used to turn up the radio during his instruction? Neither do I...
What is hiding the opaque ellipsis ?
I don't know why religous guitar players come to these videos. Guitar pickups are a go to example of electromagnetics in physics classes and it's a bit weird to believe that wood act in the whole magnetics of the thing. Then, a TV channel makes a video explaining it and people come here to disagree with the theory and to bash on details like "the A string does not vibrate at 440hz". It's not to say that wood doesn't mean anything at all to the guitar, but it may account for other things, like tuning stability and resonance and sustain, since a body that vibrates more with the strings will in response make the string vibrate a little longer, but again, it wouldn't affect on the frequencies (the main pitch and harmonics) that the strings produce, which is the only thing that pickups interact with.
Was just going to say that! Unless you're running a MIDI connection. In which you can be playing strings strapped to a 2x4, and it wouldn't make any difference sense a computer is what is generating the tone.
Slowed Chopped, that is untrue. The body material will drastically change the tone. Look up the Ola Strandburg Varburg guitar video on here, and it is explained very well what the materials do.
Thank god I kept looking, I wanted to know how they work but I just got a bunch of middle aged white men telling me I was playing guitar wrong. I don't even play guitar, I just want to know how they work!
Which also helps to sort of... transport electricity.
I like how they censored godin from the headstock and body but not the pickups or tone board
I'm somehow absolutely unsatisfied with that explanation of how an electric guitar works.
Same
The open A string frequency is 110Hz, not 440Hz