with a solid body electric guitar, however, the electronics build and shape the instrument's naturally thin tone by enriching the audio signal before it is transmitted to speakers. After decades of research and development, guitar players can now manipulate and modify the audio signal in the most astounding ways. Just consider the colorful vocabulary they use to describe the. sounds of an electric guitar- crunch, punch, fuzz, flange, wah wah, chorus, screaming,delay gated.Some of the possibilities are quite unpleasant. Others add to the library of wonderful sounds that are used to make music. These acoustic gifts are the unexpected but natural consequence of the long effort to do one simple thing-to make a very mellow instrument a little bit, or a whole lot, louder.