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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt [mailto:]
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> A bullet strat should be fine. Traditionally, the guitar of choice is a
> Fender Jaguar - but the strat is also an excellent surf guitar. Dick
> Dale, the father of surf music, plays one. I also play one.
I don't know if I would go so far as to say the traditional surf guitar is
the Jaguar. I don't think there is one. If you flip through a book like Bob
Dalley's _Surfin'_Guitars_ you see more Strats than Jags or Jazzmasters. I
think only the rich kids got the Jags & JM's. You also see lots of
Silvertone & Danelectros with the occassional Mosrite. I would guess that
there are more Jazzmaster players than Jaguar players amongst the 3rd wave
surf bands.
> The heart of a spring reverb unit is a long metal box, with springs
> stretched inside from one end to the other. The guitar's electrical
> signal is amplified, and sent through these springs, causing them to
> become magnetised. As they are magnetically attracted to each other,
> they begin to "bounce" and cause a reverberation in the electrical
> signal as they interfere with each other's magnetic fields. When a
> reverb of this type is cranked up to full power, the springs bounce
> quite fiercely, giving the outcoming signal a splashy, wet sound - the
> sound usually associated with surf bands:
Not quite. Some of the guitar's signal is sent to a transducer, which is a
thingy that converts electrical energy to mechanical energy. The transducer
is used to wiggle the springs via mechanical means. A transducer at the
other end of the springs then converts the mechanical energy of the springs
back into electrical energy. That signal is then amplified and mixed back
into original signal according to your 3 knob settings on a standard Fender
Unit. True, anytime there is current running through a wire there is a
magnetic field, but that effect here is negligible compared to the
transducer action.
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