Patent ID: 7220912

Claim:
A digital guitar, comprising: a guitar body; guitar strings mounted on the guitar body; a guitar pickup assembly mounted on the guitar body adjacent to the guitar strings; a guitar digital output assembly; a digital guitar processing circuit connected to the guitar pickup assembly and the guitar digital output assembly being connected to the digital guitar processing circuit, the digital guitar processing circuit including: i. a guitar analog/digital converter circuit connected to the guitar pickup assembly and the guitar digital output assembly; ii. a guitar digital communication circuit connected between the guitar analog/digital converter circuit and the guitar digital output assembly; and iii. a guitar mixing circuit connected between the guitar analog/digital converter circuit and the guitar pickup assembly, wherein the guitar mixing circuit includes a summing circuit and a subtracting circuit, both of which are connected to the guitar pickup assembly, and a combining circuit connected to the summing and subtracting circuits and the guitar analog/digital converter circuit.