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A question we regularly receive is………….. “I am looking to buy a capo but I don’t know what the differences are between an acoustic and an electric capo?”
The short of it is that there is no difference between electric and acoustic capos. As you well know there is quite a difference between acoustic and electric guitars but when it comes to using a capo it would be hard to go wrong. That being said one thing to consider may be the shape of the neck. Some guitars have a very flat neck while other have “C” or “V” shaped necks. This could make a difference if the capo you chose has a notch that that neck indexes into. This won’t be a huge issue if your guitar is a fairly standard model.
Essentially Capos are capos. There’s no such thing as an “electric guitar capo” vs an “acoustic guitar capo”. The difference is that some guitars (acoustic or electric) have flat fingerboards, while some others (acoustic or electric) have “radiused” or slightly curved fingerboards, and you need to choose your capo accordingly.
Another issue that may be worth thinking about is the gage of your strings. If you use really heavy strings you may want a go with a capo that has slightly stronger clamping power. If on the other hand you use supper light gage strings any capo should do you fine.
So, all and all don’t worry about if you need specially an “acoustic guitar capo” or an “electric guitar capo” instead be thinking about what you like to use and if it works you will be fine.
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Some guitar fretboards are slightly rounded so a rounded capo would be used for those.
However the majority of fretboards are flat so the flat capo would work best for those.
Most flat capos press so tight they would work on all guitars both rounded and flat, but the rounded capos will work best only on rounded fretboards.
