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Books and Videos about Guitar Effects
See also the main list, Books about Getting Guitar Sounds.
Gear
Secrets of the Guitar Legends: How to Sound Like Your Favorite Players (book
with CD)
Guitar
Effects Pedals: The Practical Handbook.
Guitar
Gear (A Guitar Player book)
Guitar
Rigs: Classic Guitar and Amp Combinations
The
Electric Guitar Sourcebook: How to Find the Sounds You Like
Effects,
not specific to guitar
A
Poke in the Ear with a Sharp Stick, Vol. III - CD-ROM sound-effects library
(non-guitar)
Creative
Recording: Effects and Processors
Digital
Delays and How to Use Them
Effective
Effects (guitar oriented?)
Fuzz
& Feedback: Classic Guitar Music of the '60s
Getting
the Most out of Home Recording, Level 2 - Signal processing
Improving
Your Signal Processing Skills
Pedal
Points and More Pedal Tones (tapes)
POD
Player's Guide and Songbook: Get Great Guitar Tones and Play Classic Songs
Shaping
Your Sound with Equalizers, Compressors, and Gates - video
Shaping
Your Sound with Reverb and Delay - video
Digital
Projects for Musicians
Do-It-Yourself
Projects for Guitarists
Electronic
Music and MIDI Projects
Electronic
Projects for Guitar
Electronic
Projects for Musicians
The
Digital Delay Line Handbook
Electronics
of the Guitar Itself
Basic
Guitar Adjustments & Setups
Blue
Book of Acoustic Guitars, Fifth Edition
Blue
Book of Electric Guitars, Fifth Edition
Constructing
a Solid Body Guitar
Customizing
Your Electric Guitar
Guitar
Electronics for Musicians
Guitarmaking:
Tradition and Technology
The
Guitar Player Repair Guide
The
Guitar Player Repair Guide: How to Set-Up, Maintain, and Repair Electrics and
Acoustics
The
Ultimate Guitar Tuning Pack
Audio
Circuit Design and Electronics
Analog
Circuit Design: Art, Science & Personalities
Audio
& Hi-Fi Handbook, 2nd Ed
Beginner's
Guide to Reading Schematics, 2nd Ed
Designing
and Building Electronic Filters. See
Digital
Filter Designer's Handbook
Encyclopedia
of Electronic Circuits, Volume 4
Encyclopedia
of Electronics, 2nd Ed
How
to Test almost Everything Electronic, 3rd Ed
Mastering
Solid-State Amplifiers
Newnes
Electronic Circuits Pocket Book
Power
Supplies, Switching Regulators, Inverters, and Converters, 2nd Ed
The
Electronic Musician's Dictionary
The
Modern Power Supply and Battery Charger Circuit Encyclopedia
MIDI
Guitar: A Complete Applications Directory
The
MIDI Companion - The Complete Guide to Using MIDI
Twiddly
Bits: Volume Three -- Acoustic & Electric Guitar (IBM)
Playing
Guitar, Composing for Guitar (just a few books)
Building
Guitar Arrangements from the Ground Up.
Composing
Music: A New Approach
The
Billboard Book of Rock Arranging
The
Complete Guide to Guitar Notation
The
Musician's Guide to Reading & Writing Music
The
Ultimate Rock Guitar Fake Book
Music
Book Dealers, Publishers, and Catalogs.
Newsgroup
Postings about Guitar Books
New Items to Add
Gear Secrets of the Guitar Legends: How to Sound Like Your Favorite Players (book with CD)
Pete Prown, Lisa Sharken. Paperback: 120 pages. Publisher: Backbeat Books; ; Book and CD edition (June 2003). ISBN: 087930751X. Amazon.
I have this. � mh
Review � updated July 30, 2006
Fake CD contradicts the spirit of the title
The book is superficial and somewhat disappointing; for
example it is confusing and unhelpful in Van Halen's signal path.� Dave Hunter's books are closer to what's
needed.� This book is ok to add to a
collection, but not the first book to get.
The accompanying CD sounds bad. After gathering articles
about genuine star guitar rigs, one editor poured his time and energy into
making a so-called sample CD -- using an amp simulator.� The CD tracks provide fake, incomplete,
half-baked Tone at best. It misleads and misguides beginning guitarists to make
them think that this non-range of non-Tone is worth recording.� These tone samples are mediocre at best;
instead, Dave Hunter's CDs with his good books set a proper standard.
Why would anyone ever choose to listen to this fake sound
when they could easily put on a genuine, rich sounding record instead? It's
misguided to use the opposite of Tone, to create a CD that is marketed as
showcasing the goal amp sounds, including actual power tubes and bona fide
speaker distortion, which are explained to some extent within the book.
What this CD ends up demonstrating is negative: why your
tone is doomed to sound like a total uninspired amateur and poseur if you use
an amp simulator rather than actual power tubes and hard-pushed guitar speaker.
The CD perpetuates the divide between kids' gear and adult gear (per the Damage
Control founders who broke off from Line 6 corporation).� Actual cranked amps are essential to the
qualifications of the guitar gods.
This sample CD could be a boon to amp tone, by steering people away from amp simulators, jolting some good sense into them to run out and get instead an actual miked-amp setup, such as a tube power amp and a guitar speaker, possibly in an isolation booth.
- mh
Guitar Effects Pedals: The Practical Handbook
by Dave Hunter
0879308060
July 2004
Guitar Gear (A Guitar Player book)
by John Brosh (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688031080/
May 1985
Guitar Rigs: Classic Guitar and Amp Combinations
by Dave Hunter
0879308516
April 2005
The Electric Guitar Sourcebook: How to Find the Sounds You Like
by Dave Hunter
0879308869
May 2006
Introduction to Guitar Tone and Effects: A Manual
for Getting the Sounds from Electric Guitars, Amplifiers, Effects Pedals and
Processors
by David M. Brewster
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0634060465/
Aug 2003
Effects, not specific to guitar
A Poke in the Ear with a Sharp Stick, Vol. III - CD-ROM sound-effects library (non-guitar)
Fried Tooth Fairy, Acid Waterfall, Charred Radio, Resonant Dog Meat, Alien Sinus Problem, Tiny Robot Hairball, Glass Rodents, and more. $200. See Music Books Plus.
Audio Made Easy
$13 at Mus. Friend. 60 pages. Chapters on mics, mixers, effects, amps, speakers, recorders, and more. How pro audio gear works and how to get the most out of it.
Creative Recording: Effects and Processors
Digital Delays and How to Use Them
See Music Books Plus.
Digital Reverb
See Music Books Plus.
Effective Effects (guitar oriented?)
Mix online. Music Books Online. Tape with pamphlet?
Fuzz & Feedback: Classic Guitar Music of the '60s
Edited by: Tony Bacon - This book journeys through ten mesmerizing years that gave us legendary guitars, players, and music. From Folk-Rock to Surf to Psychedelic, from Jazz to Blues to Country, this book Explores all the musical happenings, plus stories and photos of such timeless pairings as: Jimi Hendrix and his upside down Strat, Clapton and his Psychedelic Gibson SG, Townshend and his lethal Rickenbacker, Atkins and his signature Gretsch, and dozens more. Studded with psychedelic posters, classic album covers, rare ads, and other '60s memorabilia, the book also provides a chronological narrative of world events to place the music in the context of the revolutionary spirit of the times. 88 pages, softbound...........$19.95 JK
This is not a gear book; it's a book about popular music. -mh
Getting the Most out of Home Recording, Level 2 - Signal processing
See Music Books Plus.
Improving Your Signal Processing Skills
See Music Books Plus.
Multieffects for Musicians
$16 at amazon.com. Feb 1995. Author: Craig Anderton Amazon
I think I read this and would like to scope it out again to see if it has anything of interest regarding guitar gear and amp tone. -mh
Panning & Stereo Imaging
See Music Books Plus.
Pedal Points and More Pedal Tones (tapes)
Page 133 GP 3/94 ad: 800 222 5544 Lessons On Line: 1198 -
$3.50 per lesson, on tape. [These are probably about music theory, not fx gear.
Guitar Player Nov 1993 page 130, Pedal Points article by John Duarte - a pedal
point is a passage in which 1 note, usually the bass, persists, whether it
remains part of the previling harmony or not. Common in guitar music, because
you can use an open string as a pedal note.]
1198 - More Pedal Tones, Duarte/Carlton, Dec. '93.
1190 - Pedal Points, Duarte/Carlton, Nov. 1993.
POD Player's Guide and Songbook: Get Great Guitar Tones and Play Classic Songs
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Michael Ross. Learn how to get the most out of this popular tone tool. Authorized by POD manufacturer Line 6, this book features professional user tips, POD settings, and complete note-for-note tab transcriptions of 9 songs - "Day Tripper," "Killer Queen," "Oh, Pretty Woman," "Message in a Bottle," "Pride and Joy," "Smoke on the Water," "Start Me Up," "Sunshine of Your Love," and "Wonderful Tonight." With plenty of tips to help you create your own sound and easy to read diagrams. 88 pp. 49-695576 $12.95 Elderly. Amazon.
This is not a gear book; it's a songbook. -mh
Shaping Your Sound with Equalizers, Compressors, and Gates - video
See Music Books Plus.
Shaping Your Sound with Reverb and Delay - video
See Music Books Plus.
Electronic Guitar Projects
Digital Projects for Musicians
Jan 1995. $25 at Amazon. Authors: Craig Anderton, Bob Moses, Greg Bartlett, Steve Macatee - Bob Moses, a digital engineer at the Rane Corporation, showed his projects to his friend Greg Bartlett, an electrical engineer who had just left his engineering job to pursue his dreams as an electronic musician and studio owner. Steve Macatee, one of Rane's top CAD designers, joined the project and got to work laying out circuit boards and building prototypes. They created the general-purpose MIDItools computer, and the twenty projects described in this book. Bob and Greg got started in audio electronics by reading Craig Anderton's analog projects book, Electronic Projects for Musicians. See Music Books Plus. Amazon.
Do-It-Yourself Projects for Guitarists
35 Useful, Inexpensive Projects That Help You Unlock Your Instrument's Potential. Craig Anderton. $16 at Amazon.com. March 1995. Amazon.
Electronic Music and MIDI Projects
4/94. R. A. Penfold. $12.76. Amazon.
Electronic Projects for Guitar
R. A. Penfold. 2/1992. Low-cost, simple yet elegant plans for guitar effects. Electronics expert Penfold explains the purpose of each step of design. For the electronics professional and music amateur. Amazon.
Electronic Projects for Musicians
Craig Anderton. 1978. 300 pages. Analog circuits. How to build pre-amps, tone controls, ring modulators, mixers and other inexpensive electronic accessories. Illustrations, instructions, and a demonstration record. Available at Music Books Plus. Available at PAiA, and on the same page, they sell kits for each of the projects.
Guitar Gadgets
Music Sales, published 1983. Author: Craig Anderton
I can't find this. -mh
The Digital Delay Line Handbook
Music Sales, published 1985, revised 1989. Author: Craig Anderton
The Stompbox Cookbook
Build Advanced Effects for Electric Guitar & Bass. By: Nicholas Boscorelli. Build these 38 advanced effects for electric guitar & bass: Soft-Knee Compressor with auto variable attack & decay, Dual Mode Sustainer, Six Unique Distortion Boxes, Quad Parametrics EQ, Six Unique Tremolos including variable waveform designs, Full-Featured Noise Gate, Stereo Vibrato, Studio-Grade Spot Compressor, and more. 259 pages, softbound, $29.95
Electronics of the Guitar Itself
Guitar Building page at the Guitar Bookstore
A Guitar Maker's Manual
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Basic Guitar Adjustments & Setups
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Blue Book of Acoustic Guitars, Fifth Edition
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Blue Book of Electric Guitars, Fifth Edition
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Complete Guitar Repair
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Constructing a Solid Body Guitar
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Customizing Your Electric Guitar
Adrian Legg. 64 pages. $14.95. Available at Music Books Plus.
Do-it-Yourself Guitar Repair
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Electric Guitar Handbook
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Electric Guitar Setups
Guitar Electronics for Musicians
Donald Brosnac. $19.95. Amazon price: $15.96. Paperback. June 1995. 128 pages. available at Amazon.com Available at Music Books Plus.
Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Make Your Own Electric Guitar
Melvyn Hiscock. 1987. Available
at Amazon. Excellent book covering solidbody guitar construction. Thorough
coverage to the three main styles of solidbody guitar construction (bolt on
neck, glued in neck, and neck-through-body). After the introductory chapters, a
guitar of each of these styles is built from start to finish in separate
chapters. These serve as an example of the unique features of each of the three
designs. Points out strengths and weaknesses in well known designs from the
major manufacturers, to help the reader in the design phase. Covers the
critical relationship between neck angle and bridge height more thoroughly than
other books. It uses many terms from
Making An Archtop Guitar
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Making Musical Instruments
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
The Guitar Player Repair Guide
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
The Guitar Player Repair Guide: How to Set-Up, Maintain, and Repair Electrics and Acoustics
Dan Erlewine. 1994. 22.95 available at Mojo Musical Supply. available at Amazon.com
The Ultimate Guitar Tech
Cesar Diaz. 60 min. $39.95 video. See musicbooksonline.com.
The Ultimate Guitar Tuning Pack
Music Books Plus: Guitar Repair
Audio Circuit Design and Electronics
Principles of Electron Tubes: Understanding & Designing Circuits - excellent, popular textbook from 1941.
The Tube Substitution Handbook. Howard Sams. 16.95 available at Mojo Musical Supply
World Tube Directory - available at Music Books Plus.
GE Essential Characteristics. $15.95. Available at Vibroworld. Concise presentation of all GE tubes listing basing, B+, filament, bias, etc.
RCA Tube Manual (Reprint of RC-19). $20 available at STF Electronics available at Mojo Musical Supply
The Audio Designer's Tube Register. Tom Mitchell (wrote How to Service Your Own Tube Amp). $17.95. See Music Books Plus. Detailed specifications and graphs on 14 of the most popular low power TRIODE tubes, such as 12AX7, 12AY7, etc. Reference book for builders and designers of tube amplifiers. Tom Mitchell's page for this book.
Audio Amplifier Projects. R. A. Penfold. $12.76 at Amazon. 10/1997. 128 pages. Available at Music Books Plus. All the projects can be constructed on simple circuit board. Each project features a circuit diagram, and an explanation of the circuit operation. There is a stripboard layout diagram and all constructional details are provided along with a shopping list of components. Projects: bass and treble tone controls, simple graphic equalizer, audio mixer, small audio power amp, 6 watt audio power amp, 20/32 watt power amplifier and power supply, dynamic noise limiter, audio limiter, loudness filter, loudness control, high impedance mic preamp, low impedance mic preamp, crystal mic preamp, tape preamplifier, scratch filter, rumble filter, RIAA preamplifier.
Audio Measurements. Norman Crowhurst. Famous compendium of
measurements and test techniques for audio equipment of the tube era. Covers
test instruments, amps, transformers, preamps, tape recorders, changers,
tonearms, cartridges. 1996/1985. 224 pp. 5-1/2"x8-1/2". Softbound.
Part # BKAA41. $12.95. Old Colony Sound Laboratory
(603) 924-6371
custserv at audioXpress.com
Active Filter Cookbook
Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science & Personalities
Audio & Hi-Fi Handbook, 2nd Ed
Beginner's Guide to Reading Schematics, 2nd Ed
Designing and Building Electronic Filters. See
Digital Filter Designer's Handbook
Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits, Volume 4
Encyclopedia of Electronics, 2nd Ed
How to Test almost Everything Electronic, 3rd Ed
Mastering Solid-State Amplifiers
Newnes Electronic Circuits Pocket Book
Operational Amplifiers
Power Supplies, Switching Regulators, Inverters, and Converters, 2nd Ed
The Electronic Musician's Dictionary
Music Sales, published 1988. Author: Craig Anderton
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Subject: FS: Tube Manuals and How to Books
15 Nov 1998
Sam's 5 book set of Electronics and electricity, 50's, mostly tube lore, a learn at home school kinda thing from back when tubes were the thing, everything used them, and transistors were these funny new things on the market. Deep into theory, hands on, very comprehensive, goes into all the details, from very basics to advanced. $150
5 Old 40's cataloges and books from Thordarson, Centralab, Cornell, $30
Book, Elements Of Radio,Marcus and Horton,1948 $50
Book,Radio Engineering handbook,Henry, 1941, $50
Book, Basic Electronics, NavPers, 1955, $50
Book, Radio Data Book, Boyce and Roche, 1948, $50
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List of music electronics books at Music Books Plus.
The Modern Power Supply and Battery Charger Circuit Encyclopedia
MIDI Design and Using MIDI
David Torn Pandoras Tool Box
Available at Music Books Plus.
Music
Books Plus: MIDI books
Music Books Plus: Electronic
Music: MIDI and Synthesis (includes guitar books)
MIDI
for Guitarists
Available at Music Books Plus.
MIDI
for Musicians
$14.50 at amazon.com. Author: Craig Anderton. 1986, Feb 1998. Classic. Music Books Plus. Amazon.
MIDI
for the Technophile
Available at Music Books Plus.
MIDI
Guitar: A Complete Applications Directory
Available at Music Books Plus.
The MIDI Companion - The Complete Guide to Using MIDI
See Music Books Plus.
The MIDI Home Studio
See Music Books Plus.
The MIDI Resource Book
The Next MIDI Book
Advanced
Twiddly Bits: Volume Three -- Acoustic & Electric Guitar (IBM)
$34.95. IBM version at Music Books
Plus. Mac version.
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Playing Guitar, Composing for Guitar (just a few books)
There are hundreds of guitar playing books. This site is about gear and effects processing... it covers only the gear aspect of playing. Here are a few books that I feel are distinctive, good finds, and relevant to the spirit of this site.
Building Guitar Arrangements from the Ground Up
Composing Music: A New Approach
William Russo. This is a workbook with composition
exercises. An effective format for learning how to capture your rock ideas onto
sheet music paper and develop ideas on the sheet paper.
Rock Guitar Poster
See Music Books Plus.
The Billboard Book of Rock Arranging
How to make your band's music sound great - live and in the
studio. Arranging in all rock styles. Using computers and
The Complete Guide to Guitar Notation
Michael Wolfsohn. I bought this through Musicians Friend.
The Complete Guitarist
Richard Chapman. If I could have only one book covering music theory and guitar, this is the one. It has everything, covered to just the right level of detail. Nice visual color layout by the company that specializes in this highly accessible mode of presentation. Comparable to The Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer. See Music Books Plus.
The Guitar Handbook
Ralph Denyer. Available at Vibroworld. An overview of the guitar. As well as playing technique and theory, this book covers guitars and guitar design, playing and guitar maintenance. A good introduction to guitar playing and servicing.
The Musician's Guide to Reading & Writing Music
Dave Stewart.
The Ultimate Rock Guitar Fake Book
200 classic, rock hits. I bought this through Musicians Friend.
Music Book Dealers, Publishers, and Catalogs
guitar gear books at jklutherie.com
Music Books Plus - The largest online music bookstore and music book database. This has taken over the large Mix magazine's Bookshelf catalog of many music books. Books about gear, amps, recording techniques, effects, gear design, composition, music business, etc.
MixBooks - books published by Mix Magazine and Electronic Musician.
Mojo Tone has many of these books.
Power Press Publishing
tel:519-668-3132
fax: 519-660-8992
Guitar Bookstore - Listings of guitar related books that you can buy on-line via Amazon.
GuitarBooks.com - Provides reviews and links for purchasing guitar books and videos.
Miller Freeman Books - publishes music gear books.
amazon.com has some of these books.
Creative Concepts Publishing Corporation
New Millennium Guitar Publishing Company
Amazon subject: Amplifiers, Vacuum Tube
Amazon subject: Audio Amplifiers
Newsgroup Postings about Guitar Books
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