reAcoustic eGuitar (continue)
The acoustic guitar sound box gives the guitar it’s unique sound and behavior, by amplifying the string vibrations.
The structure and materials of the sound box rarely changed after hundreds of years of evolution.
Is their a place for structure innovations?
Acoustic Instruments
In Electric guitar the signal is capture using a piezo or magnetic sensor. Then this signal is amplified using electric amplifier.
The electric guitar create expressive electric based sound. The vibrations created by the strings - not using electric/digital oscillators.
At the last few years a new trend started to appear - the digital guitar. Sensors detect the string vibration and using DSP techniques reModel the signal in order to create sound innovations. The digital guitar is a combination between electric guitar and a synthesizer.
So, no more acoustic experience?
The idea behind this project is to enable player to customize their own sound by assembling different sound cells instead of one big sound box. Each string will have it’s own bridge, each bridge will be connected to different cells. Changing the cells size, material or structure can create different sound.
3D printer :
Lets assume 3D printers can print cells to the size of 30cm radius & have a variety of materials strong enough to carry the pressure of the strings and handle resonance.
Open Source :
Imagine people downloading recommended sound cells from the internet in order to change or manipulate their guitar sound.
3D design :
Blackbird Guitar
Players will be able to 3D design their own cells in order to get their unique sound patch.
Project’s Goals :
Examining the design options that being created in the reAcoustic Guitar, alongside the technological questions.
Making 3D illustration of full guitar.
Making a working demo of 2-3 cells and one string.
Open issues :
There are infinity options to build guitar from sound cells, but just few of them may work.
It is beyond the scope of this project to test the physical behavior of different combination, resonance and to find the optimal structure.