Archive for April 15th, 2010
An acoustic guitar is a wonderful sounding instrument by itself, but when you add a pick-up to it you turn it into an electric guitar. Acoustic electric guitars come with adjustable equalizers on them. These can be 3, 4, 5 or 6 band equalizers and they can also include things like phase and chorus.
Another name for the on board equalizer is a preamp. It is designed to amplify the signal from the pick-up before it gets to your guitar amplifier.
Adjusting equalizers looks complicated but is really very simple. The first thing you must do before any adjustment is to zero out all the controls on the equalizer. What this does is to give you what is known as a clean signal. The bands whether they are 3, 4, 5, or 6 represent tones from low to high with each control adjusting a different frequency. A lot of people adjust these controls to look like a happy face, this brings out the lows and highs more. The important thing for you to remember is it’s your guitar and you can make it sound the way you want by adjusting the eq your way.
After everything is zeroed out adjust each band from low to high so you can hear what it does, do this with each band then create the mix that is pleasant to your ears, it’s that simple.