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Summary: Very basic information, not very useful.
Review: Just plain bad. From uniformative to downright incorrect, this book fails miserably to achieve it's goal. After reading this you will not be able to shape your personal sound beyond knowing the names of the knobs on various effects. I want my money back!
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Summary: Very basic information, not very useful.
Review: Just plain bad. From uniformative to downright incorrect, this book fails miserably to achieve it's goal. After reading this you will not be able to shape your personal sound beyond knowing the names of the knobs on various effects. I want my money back!
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Summary: Buying guitars for begginers to mastering effects
Review: This book covers all asspects of guitar sounds from woods, pic-ups, and srtings to effects and stomp boxs. It's pretty clear even for beginners and even gives exapmles of how great rock legends got their tones.
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Summary: You can't be without this book, if you play guitar!
Review: This book is a must if you are an active stage musician. I always knew how to operate my equiptment, but never quite understood the theory behind some of the effects. After reading this book, I completely understand what the effects do to the instrument signal. It is much easier to "find" a sound I want to hear.Also...... Don't ever pay to have your guitar/bass setup ever again. The author describes in "Normal person terms" the different steps to properly setting up a guitar. I used to pay $40 per guitar every 2 months or so....Now I do them myself and they have never sounded better. I just purchased 2 more of these books for other musician friends! Good Luck -=Eddie=-
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Summary: You can't be without this book, if you play guitar!
Review: This book is a must if you are an active stage musician. I always knew how to operate my equiptment, but never quite understood the theory behind some of the effects. After reading this book, I completely understand what the effects do to the instrument signal. It is much easier to "find" a sound I want to hear. Also...... Don't ever pay to have your guitar/bass setup ever again. The author describes in "Normal person terms" the different steps to properly setting up a guitar. I used to pay $40 per guitar every 2 months or so....Now I do them myself and they have never sounded better. I just purchased 2 more of these books for other musician friends! Good Luck -=Eddie=-
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Summary: OK first-generation amp tone/rig setup book
Review: This book is well conceived in general scope, with the right audience, right goals, and appropriate mix of effects and amp integration. It is lacking in coverage of some key points within that scope, however. It has only two pages of coverage of capturing that sound via microphones or direct-injection into the mixer. ...What's the purpose of talking about guitar effects in isolation from each other and from the amp? Any moron can dial in individual effects in any guitar store -- meanwhile, we're left without a clue about how to bend amp tone itself through controlling eq and levels at multiple distortion stages from guitar pickups to studio monitors -- which is exactly what this book should, and doesn't, cover. It covers some aspects of "getting great guitar sounds", but is limited as far as "getting great amp and distortion sounds". At this point, there aren't enough books on getting guitar sounds to be very critical; we have to buy what's available and try to piece together the clues. This book is the most well-conceived book, though there's much room for improvement in content. Recommended, because it has the right goal, though there's ample room for improvement.
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Summary: OK first-generation amp tone/rig setup book
Review: This book is well conceived in general scope, with the right audience, right goals, and appropriate mix of effects and amp integration. It is lacking in coverage of some key points within that scope, however. It has only two pages of coverage of capturing that sound via microphones or direct-injection into the mixer. ...What's the purpose of talking about guitar effects in isolation from each other and from the amp? Any moron can dial in individual effects in any guitar store -- meanwhile, we're left without a clue about how to bend amp tone itself through controlling eq and levels at multiple distortion stages from guitar pickups to studio monitors -- which is exactly what this book should, and doesn't, cover. It covers some aspects of "getting great guitar sounds", but is limited as far as "getting great amp and distortion sounds". At this point, there aren't enough books on getting guitar sounds to be very critical; we have to buy what's available and try to piece together the clues. This book is the most well-conceived book, though there's much room for improvement in content. Recommended, because it has the right goal, though there's ample room for improvement.
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