So, my understanding is that the pickup is influenced by the string moving and tells the speaker to make a sound.
So, everything else should be no consequence, besides maybe sophistication of pickup and size of string.
So, why do other things seem to matter? I’m at a loss for a lot of specific examples, but people are always discussing various elements of their guitars and their impact on sound, but I don’t see how anything really impacts sound. Like why all the cutouts, swoops, materials, different saddles and bridges, etc. I’d understand on an acoustic, but on an electric a lot of it seems like it shouldn’t matter.
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The body has almost no effect on the sound of an electric guitar. What matters is the type of pickups, location relative to the string, strings and the amp/effects.
You can watch a guy play a guitar with no body at all and it sounds the exact same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE
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