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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Once the string is vibrating and the pickup captures it it becomes an electrical signal that can be affected in an extraordinary number of ways before it hits the amplifier and speaker (which also influences the sound in a large number of ways) and also using different microphones to pick that up to become an electrical signal and then manipulated again.
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