What's the differences? Pros and veteran guitarist care to clarify?

semi accoustic is guitar with the hole like normal kapok guitar where u can pay without electric or amp... it also have pickup if u want to play with an amp or for a concert...

ellectric accoustic is totally need an amp because it only have pick up n u need to connect to an amp to play...

clear??

What?

So basically Electric Acoustic is more to acoustic while Semi is more to electric? Is it?

WHAT???

To my understanding, a Semi-HOLLOW (could be called acoustic) would be an electric guitar with a hollowed bodied. For example:


An Epiphone Dot

An Electrical Acoustic, would be an acoustic with a pickup, enabling you to connect to an amplifier. For Example:


An Epiphone Elvis

semi acoustic and electric acoustic are essentially the same.
both are normal acoustic guitars with built-in pickups.

the pickups are there so that when u wanna make even more noise or plug it to an amp with a metal zone, u can.

Semis are also refered to as hollowbody guitars (ex. ES-335, Epi Dot,...) while Electric/Acoustics are just acoustic guitars with piezo/trandsucer pickups installed..

bro, dont mean to be rude, but your facts are wrong.

I'm not to sure what do you mean by Electric Acoustic guitar ...
I've only heard of Semi Acoustic Hollow or not hollow guitar
Semi Acoustic Hollow guitar make's a lot of FEEDBACK noise when you on your distortion.

This post has been edited by MSA: Jan 7 2009, 09:40 AM

the feedback occurs because the pickups are like mics and therefore very prone to feedback, unlike the pickups on an electric guitar for example.

Semi Acoustic Guitar and Electric Acoustic Guitar are referring to the same thing, it's a acoustic guitar with pickup, you can play it with or without plug to the amp. That's why it's called semi acoustic or electric acoustic, the names already showed you the meaning.

Can anyone tell meh what the dots on the frets are for????

You mean the dot marker on 5th fret, 7th fret, 9th fret, 12th fret and so on?
It's easier for you to do a jump/shift from one fret to another fret without any mistake. But some guitars like classical guitar do not have fret marker dot. I own a classical guitar which doesnt has any dot on the fret. When you master the fretboard, you get used where to place your fingers, you dont really need the dot.