Electric Guitars, Synths, and Keyboards for the Curious
You listen to music, but what do you know about how it is made today?
What spawned me to write this article is the fact that I found myself trying to explain to my wife and my parents about how an electrical guitar and a synthesizer works and the whole ecosystem around these different instruments.
For instance, you don’t merely buy an electrical guitar, and you are done. No, you have to hook it up to a guitar amplifier (amp for short).
There is a large selection of these amplifiers with different characteristics and settings. But the madness doesn’t end there. There is a huge selection of colorful little boxes called guitar pedals (or effect units) which you plug in between your guitar and your amplifier to alter the sound of your guitar or do a myriad of other things such as record the sound so you can play as if you got two guitars.
