de-technologize: re-Acoustic e-Guitar
Vision:
The soundbox of acoustic & classic guitar, like other acoustic wood instrument, didn’t change a lot since the Middle Ages. Today DSP technology is being used in order to remodel electric guitar sounds and to create innovation in guitar sound design (line 6 guitar), but nothing is being done to improve or change traditional soundbox.
New and sophisticated fabrication methods (including 3D printers), 3D design SW and acoustic/materials simulations are available. In the “open source” environment and “personal 3D printers” vision it make sense that guitarist will be able to design/download/fetch is own acoustic sound.
Technology:
Shape – Dividing the body to different part that will behave like a physical “filter bank” by using different “soundcells” (instead of one soundbox). Each of those cells will have it’s own resonance. Then it will be easy to adapt each of the cells separately in order to change its band’s amplification. Hybrid soundbox can be made by downloading some “soundcells” files from the internet.
Materials – examination of 3D printers materials and their resonance, etc.
Sketches:
October 16th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
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October 20th, 2007 at 5:36 am
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regarding cool soundboxes - chk out ParkerGuitars’ accoustics (http://www.parkerguitars.com ).
Your B/W sketches here are cool, Transformers-like.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:39 am
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