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 density of the wood matters a lot. Maple and other woods change the sound. Some resonate more some a brighter. The pickups matter as well as the windings and magnets of them. There are different string gauges that matter. There are different materials that are used for strings as well. The style of the guitarist matters as well, finger picking or whatever they choose. In acoustic guitars the location of the braces can change the tone. The amp matters. The pedals matter. The tuning matters.
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