Re: If an electric guitar is acoustically louder, does this translate through pickups
Acoustic volume is dependant on the way the body top transfers vibration to surrounding air You can have semihollows much acoustically louder that don't sustain any more or less than other solid bodies that are 'quieter'.......so its not a question of more or less as most people simplistically seem to argue.
The relationship of energy in a guitar is perhaps one of the most misunderstood parts of physics by the layperson ever. For some unknown reason, the notion that you have perhaps 5-10 times the energy you ever put into picking already stored in the guitar at rest is a factor that either escapes people, or they ignore it.
Most/all of your sustain come from this potential energy and the inherent momentum that comes with it. The very dispersal of energy in one extreme of the strings motion (and the minute compression of the wood) merely charges the body/neck to release energy in the opposite direction with very little in the way of loss at all.
So the vibration of the body is in fact the very thing that is helping your guitar maintain its energy.
The string's mass to surface area ratio and the damping effect of air would slow its energy very quickly if you had very little mass or momentum behind it.
Acoustic volume is dependant on the way the body top transfers vibration to surrounding air You can have semihollows much acoustically louder that don't sustain any more or less than other solid bodies that are 'quieter'.......so its not a question of more or less as most people simplistically seem to argue.
The relationship of energy in a guitar is perhaps one of the most misunderstood parts of physics by the layperson ever. For some unknown reason, the notion that you have perhaps 5-10 times the energy you ever put into picking already stored in the guitar at rest is a factor that either escapes people, or they ignore it.
Most/all of your sustain come from this potential energy and the inherent momentum that comes with it. The very dispersal of energy in one extreme of the strings motion (and the minute compression of the wood) merely charges the body/neck to release energy in the opposite direction with very little in the way of loss at all.
So the vibration of the body is in fact the very thing that is helping your guitar maintain its energy.
The string's mass to surface area ratio and the damping effect of air would slow its energy very quickly if you had very little mass or momentum behind it.
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