Okay so My little brother just got a new guitar, but I wasn't sure whether it was a semi acoustic or an electric-acoustic guitar with pickups (no microphones)
So my question is, How do I tell a semi acoustic guitar from an electric-acoustic (elecoustic for some) with pickups?
Thanks a ton!
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Comments on Whats the Difference between Semi Acoustic and Electric- Acoustic guitars?
I’m not sure the terms you’re using, but here’s my definitions:
By a semi acoustic, you may be referring to a semi-hollowbody guitar. These usually have electric guitar pickups under the strings and typically have the f holes cut in the top (like you see on a violin). They are usually played by jazz guitarists, but they require an amplifier as they don’t really produce much sound acoustically (unplugged). They are usually magnetic pickups and don’t require a battery to power them.
An electric-acoustic (I’d call it an acoustic electric, but whatever) is an acoustic guitar (larger body usually with a soundhole under the strings). You can play it unplugged (acoustically). To make it electric, they typically install what’s called an undersaddle piezo pickup. This is a thin metal strip that goes under the saddle (the white part that holds the strings up off of the bridge. Most times they have a built in pre-amplifier and require a 9v battery because the pickup is an active pickup.
I actually have what’s called a hybrid guitar called a Schecter C-1 E/A, which is a semi-hollowbody with the 2 magnetic pickups like an electric guitar, but also has the active piezo pickup in the bridge, which gives you a pretty good acoustic guitar sound as well. You can blend the pickups to get lots of different tones.
Hope that’s what you were really asking and that this was helpful.