When an electric guitar is connected to an amplifier with distortion, the open strings will make noise unless you are touching them. I used to think that while playing the electric guitar, players had to always make skin contact with all open strings to avoid those noises. However, I just did an experiment and now believe it is not necessary to always make skin contact with all the open strings.
This is the experiment I did: I noticed that when I tap the back of the neck of my electric guitar with enough strength to move the neck, if I'm not touching any string with my skin, all the open strings will make some noise. However, if I do the same tap while I play a note, my amplifier will not reproduce all those noises, it will only reproduce the note I'm playing.
Questions: -Does this mean that if a note is playing, you don't have to make skin contact with open strings to mute them? -If I'm playing a part of a solo that all the notes are in the first string, I do not have to mute all other 5 strings by making skin contact with them? -Is my amplifier "unique" or do all amplifiers and audio interfaces work like this?
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