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When you purchased that electric guitar did it come with a stand or a case? How about a guitar amplifier or a bass amplifier if you purchased a bass guitar, or a guitar tuner.Those are a few of the things that are included in guitar packages when you pick one of them up. Guitar packages come in electric guitar packages, bass guitar packages, and acoustic guitar packages. They came be obtained with different size amplifiers for both bass and guitar. Guitar packages make great gift ideas because everything you need comes in one package, so whoever is receiving the gift only has to tune it and play it.
If you are in the thought process of playing electric guitars there are several things that you should be thinking about. First is are you considering playing electric guitars, bass guitars, or maybe acoustic guitars.
Your next decision is what kind of playing will you be doing, will you be content just playing at home for yourself, or joining or starting a band and playing gigs. Depending upon your answer lies electric guitar packages and bass guitar packages with different size amplifiers to solve your questions.
Many people are under the idea that you need a big guitar amplifier to have a great sound, the truth is yes you do, but at what cost? If you plan on playing on an individual basis, or maybe jamming with some friends just for the fun of it I suggest staying with a 10w or 20watt guitar or bass amplifier, depending on what you are playing. Even if you do plan on playing gigs at some point these two are the perfect choice for starting out, you can always move up to a bigger amp as you get better.
Did you ever hear the term the right tool for the right job, well it’s the same for guitars, and electric guitar packages. When you think about it the right guitar kind of sets the mood for the song.
You wouldn’t think of using an electric guitar like the Nightcrawler on a song that needs the soft sound of an acoustic guitar, and likewise you wouldn’t use an acoustic guitar on let’s say a hard rock song. The right guitar package comes to play depending upon what kind of playing you do. If are a stay at home rocker and just enjoy playing guitar on your own then an electric guitar package with a 1ow amplifier is just fine. If you play occasional gigs like weddings and small halls you need to step up to a 20w guitar amplifier or higher. If you play gigs like local bars and big halls then you want to step up to an 80w amplifier like the Danville 80w guitar amplifier.
Ever since The Beatles exploded on the scene in America in the 60′s, bringing with them their new concept on what to do with electric guitars and bass guitars, the music scene has never been the same. They were pioneers in a new music as well as the way this new music was presented.
Their outdoor performances brought about changes in the way we listen to music. The electric guitar packages they used were armed with guitar amplifiers made by VOX. They used 100 watt amplifiers which were at the time innovative, unfortunately at the concert at Shea Stadium in Flushing NY they proved to be not enough power, so that gig spawned the making of guitar and bass amplifiers with more power. Using their experiences the makers of guitar amplifiers and bass amplifiers have made the monster amps you see your favorite bands use today. This is one more example of what we owe The Beatles.
When you first start out playing guitar the first thing you do is go out and buy an electric guitar and a guitar amplifier. Being new you are so excited you plug the amp into the wall, plug your electric guitar into your new amplifier using the guitar cable, turn up the volume and start to play.
After a while of playing you start playing around with the controls knobs on your amplifier, you know the ones that say treble, middle, and bass on the cheaper amplifiers, and on the better ones like 125,250, 500, 1k, and 2k. What these controls are referring to is equalization, with bass controlling the low frequencies, middle the mid, and treble the high frequencies. There is no right or wrong way to set these, it is all up to the sound that is pleasing to you.
Don’t feel left out if you play bass guitar, the only thing that changes for you is that you need to use a bass amplifier. Bass amplifiers are many a little beefier to handle the low frequencies. If you play an acoustic electric guitar you have an added advantage, you acoustic guitar comes with an on board equalizer built into the controls of your acoustic guitar, all you need is an amplifier.
Each on of these can be found in guitar packages for bass, electric and acoustic guitars.
These days, distortion is considered a fundamental part of rock music, basically the complement to a catchy pop hook. But in rock’s formative years, people considered dissonance to be a sign of musical weakness. It was all about the purity of pop songs and the technical virtuosity of jazz standards. Before long, however, musicians discovered that they could make a whole new range of interesting noises with the help of guitar amplifiers.
More than just a way to amplify sound, the amp can be used for creative purposes as well. In the late 1980s and early ’90s, the Irish shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine pushed the boundaries of what rock music could sound like. By implementing effects pedals, amplifier feedback and offbeat tunings, they cranked out sounds that might have originated in a whole different universe.
The term “amplifier” or simply “amp” is now used not only to mean any device that increases the signal’s breadth of range. Its modern usage is primarily to refer to an electronic amplifier used in microcomputers, hi-fi stereos, television and radio transmitters and receivers, electronic digital equipments and instruments for audio applications, such as guitar amplifiers.
Buying an amplifier therefore requires one to determine what you are using it for. Another factor to be considered is the amplifier’s efficiency, meaning, its ability to convert power input to output. Amplifiers can fall under categories that range from Class A to Class D, with Class D being most efficient and Class A being the least. They are also available in an assortment or wattages, including 10 and 20w guitar amplifier options. And like all other technologies, the compatibility of the amplifier to where you intend to use it is the key factor.
In order to hear what you are playing with an electric guitar you need a guitar amplifier. If you only play acoustic guitars without an on-board equalizer and pick-up and plan on playing any affair you still need an amplifier along with a microphone in order to be heard.
Depending on what guitar you play you need to know all guitar amplifiers are not the same. You can go from entry level amps of 10 watts that are considered practice amps and are relatively inexpensive, to intermediate amps from 20 watts on up with some models offering effects such as reverb.
Your standard amplifier can be used for many different types of music, you can find these amps being used for rock, country, and blues. Amplifiers with a preamp channel with things like distortion effects and tone filters are used when playing hard rock. Acoustic amplifiers are best used with acoustic guitars as the distortion rate is very low and is ideal for acoustics.
Do you ever go surfing around the net searching for videos from your favorite band? During your search have you ever come across the word unplugged?
Any time you see the word unplugged it’s that song being played using acoustic guitars without the use of electric guitars. Whether or not you are a fan acoustics it is worth a listen, and I do mean listen. Songs played like this are made to be listened to and enjoyed. You’ll find no effect pedals here, no feedback from amplifiers, just honest music played without the aide of electronics.
If your someone who only thinks songs are to be played with an electric guitar then this is a real eye opener, if your someone who enjoys playing an acoustic guitar this is a way to songs to your library that you didn’t know could be played like this.
When you listen to music do you think about the production of the songs, and what instruments that are being used to played for each song? When I listen to a song I consider what if that song was played on an acoustic guitar with a little different style, would it sound good?
With these questions in mind some songs are made to be played using electric guitars and guitar amplifiers with the volume turned up quite a few notched, while others are written for acoustic guitars with very little help from amplifiers, and still there are some songs that sound good being played with either method.
Take the song “Crazy Train” by Ozzie Osbourne, it has an incredible guitar riff through-out the song, can you Imagine this song being played on an acoustic guitar, I don’t think so. Same thing applies to a song by the late Jim Croce, “Ill Have To Say I Love You In A Song”, it would unthinkable for this song to be played using an electric guitar through loud amps.
If you want a great example of a song that sounds great played either acoustically or electrically look no further than the song “Layla”. The song was written as a ballad to be played using an acoustic guitar, the recorded version by Derek and the Dominos was recorded using electric guitars with an unforgettable riff to start the song as well as a great riff in the middle of the song when the whole song shifts tempo.