Why is an Acoustic Guitar so much LOUDER than an Electric Guitar?

[HeairBear]

What about the materials the strings are made of? Most acoustics use either bronze or pig gut strings. Electrics have to use steel strings so the pickups can pickup the sound. Acoustics can not use normal electric pickups, so, that is the reason for mics and piezoelectric style pickups. Have any of you tried using electric strings on an acoustic? I know one of Wilby's acoustics does, I put them on it myself. Orca! The reason? Bronze strings tune up much tighter making the strings hard to press. Electric strings may sound tinny, but, playing acoustics can give a guy hand cramps after playing a set at a gig.

When one string is plucked, all the other strings will also vibrate, adding to the overall sustain, whether you can hear them or not. The same is true for pianos and all other stringed instruments. Using a single string of the same material on both guitars plugged into a good tuner may do the trick, but, I do not suggest it, for, doing so can warp the neck from lack of tension.

Maybe Danny Ferrington has some answers for such a test. Now, which one of you virtuosos is gonna make me a youtube video of them playing "Flight of the Bumble Bee"? Not the Nuno Bettencourt version either...

[poynt99]

it is 'wilby', that is future tense. it is not 'is' nor 'was'...

Maybe you should try getting drunk before you post then--you'd probably sound a hell of a lot more coherent.

You're a troll dude...and it's getting really old real fast. Take off eh!

.99

[poynt99]

Pointy,
   Will rerun test with both through di box, no power to speaker, just using visual meter.

Looking forward to the results.

.99

[WilbyInebriated]

Maybe you should try getting drunk before you post then--you'd probably sound a hell of a lot more coherent.

You're a troll dude...and it's getting really old real fast. Take off eh!

.99

which words did you have trouble understanding? you should try something other than mythbusters 'science'.

i ask you to do it right (like i told tk) or tell you your 'test' is weak (like i told you about your 'sim') and you call me a troll. but yet, here you are in just about every thread offering your weak ass sauce tests as gospel (and science ).

[WilbyInebriated]

What about the materials the strings are made of? Most acoustics use either bronze or pig gut strings. Electrics have to use steel strings so the pickups can pickup the sound. Acoustics can not use normal electric pickups, so, that is the reason for mics and piezoelectric style pickups. Have any of you tried using electric strings on an acoustic? I know one of Wilby's acoustics does, I put them on it myself. Orca! The reason? Bronze strings tune up much tighter making the strings hard to press. Electric strings may sound tinny, but, playing acoustics can give a guy hand cramps after playing a set at a gig.

When one string is plucked, all the other strings will also vibrate, adding to the overall sustain, whether you can hear them or not. The same is true for pianos and all other stringed instruments. Using a single string of the same material on both guitars plugged into a good tuner may do the trick, but, I do not suggest it, for, doing so can warp the neck from lack of tension.

Maybe Danny Ferrington has some answers for such a test. Now, which one of you virtuosos is gonna make me a youtube video of them playing "Flight of the Bumble Bee"? Not the Nuno Bettencourt version either...

well said heair, but it's hopeless to get them to apply anything other than their mythbusters brand of science to anything.