<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nMy ear isn’t supersonic or anything special, but I did feel like the cheaper pickups were slightly less defined then the more expensive pickups. In any case, the less-defined pickups may be a style that fits your playing style better! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Responsive and Solid Switches<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
An electric guitar has several components that are necessary to work: switches between pickup combinations, knobs, whammy bars, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes a guitar manufacturer skimp on these, and you may be left with a lot of electronics you can’t adjust or use because of cheap switches.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nConnections and Ports<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The most important port on an electric guitar is the 1\/4 inch audio port. This is where power comes into the guitar and where sound goes out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some cheap electric guitars this crucial component is left hung out to dry, for example the port can break, or cave into the guitar so that it’s inaccessible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A quality electric guitar means that these connection points are absolutely solid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What Is Guitar Action?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
So we’ve talked a lot about guitar action in this post so I wanted to clarify what guitar action is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guitar action refers to the distance between the guitar strings and the frets. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe higher the action, the more percussive your playing will be, but also the higher the difficulty in playing. This difficulty is not trivial, either. <\/strong> If a guitar is not actioned properly, it can be very difficult to play. <\/p>\n\n\n\nAction can be adjusted in multiple ways, including adjusting the height of the bridge (the fulcrum point where the strings are tensioned against),<\/strong> often by sanding or shimming, or by adjusting the truss rod.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe truss rod<\/strong> is a metal bar that is in the neck of the guitar. If you tighten the truss rod it pulls back and reduces guitar neck relief, thereby reducing the action. Making these adjustments are very precise (hundredths or even thousandths of an inch) and should be done by a professional luthier if you are not confident in this technique. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guitars range in price from $50 to $50,000+, so what’s all the fuss about? Is it worth shelling out all the money for a guitar with a cool graphic? Why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Guitar"},{"value":2,"label":"Instruments"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/guitar-dark-1024x773.jpg",640,483,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Peter Mitchell","author_link":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/author\/thesoundadventurer\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Guitar","slug":"guitar","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":2,"count":32,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":12,"category_count":32,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Guitar","category_nicename":"guitar","category_parent":2},{"term_id":2,"name":"Instruments","slug":"instruments","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":105,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":105,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Instruments","category_nicename":"instruments","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}