Here I'm playing straight into the amp, clean setting, no gizmos, just a quality pickup. Not a great recording, just use the mic on the ipad but you get the idea, and no singing on this one.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_1jJJmt_s

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on July 17, 2014 at 11:46pm

Reminded of a story i heard or read somewhere about BB King - he'd done a show and was back in his dressing room with a visiting fan, the guy looks over at "Lucille" propped up in the corner of the dressing room and says " hey that guitar sounds fantastic, amazing guitar" to which BBK replies "she don't sound too good right now does she" .... ;-

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on July 18, 2014 at 2:09am

It's the player that makes the sound, the equipment is how he gets there.

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on July 18, 2014 at 4:57am

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on July 19, 2014 at 12:40am

LOL sure, that's what you say now.

If everybody was always in agreement there would be no discussions, no advancements, and things would get boring in a hurry.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on July 18, 2014 at 6:49am

thanks anonymous pick.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on July 18, 2014 at 7:04am

cheers ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on July 18, 2014 at 10:07am

I too have a Swamp Witch Guitar. It's got a really good sound to it. Completely different from any other guitar I have. And it also sounds differently threw the pedals as well. Much closer to a single coil than a piezo.

For a really great sound reference listen to as many of the un amped vids on this site as you can.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on July 18, 2014 at 10:16am

cheers rat , glad you are enjoying it ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Curley on July 18, 2014 at 12:48pm

On an electric guitar the source of the sound is the pickup, other things will have some effect, usually because they determine how the strings vibrate in relation to the pickup, but by far the main thing, not the only thing but the main thing, we're talking about sound here, is the pickup, did I say pickup?
Other things are important, playability, aesthetics, intonation, etc but if you're talking about the sound of the instrument, not the amp or anything else, it has to be the pickup because it's the pickup that produces the signal that then goes on to be amplified.