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Title: Gear Secrets of the Guitar Legends: How to Sound Like Your Favorite Players by Pete Prown, Lisa Sharken ISBN: 0-87930-751-X Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Son of Guitar Shop's Revenge!!
Comment: Having read the book I'm pleased to say that I found it both interesting, informative, and fun. I like the no nonsense get down to it approach to the different guitar players and there gear. The rundown of the various guitars, amps, strings, and pedals, pedals, pedals used by these "Guitar Legends" (most of them are... but a few really don't deserve that title) gives a great insight in to the many sounds and tones you can generate from a electric guitar. More so Pete and Lisa go in to the playing styles of these players to give you ideas on how to go about adding some of there "Mojo" in to your style.
Perhaps the most important thing I got out of the book was to reafirm what I have felt for many years now. YOUR SOUND IS IN YOUR HANDS...not in some amp, speaker, or little pretty colored box from who knows where. Great Players sound great on anything but, by seeing the choices they have made in guitars and other gear goes a long way into developing your own choices for your own sound and style. I think players of all levels would enjoy reading this book because it covers sounds from the dawn of rock & roll up to the present.
The enclosed CD by Pete Brown has many good examples of the different sounds and playing styles of the many guitarists in the book. It is not a big over produced demo. It sounds like it was recorded at home using gear most of us have or can afford. The cool thing is Mr. Brown has the guitar chops to pull off close approxamations of the various "Guitar Legends" in the book. They are not perfect but they are well done nontheless. See what I mean good players sound good on anything. I'll be stealing some of those licks in no time. Where can I get my hands on Volume 2.
Rating: 3
Summary: Fake CD completely betrays the spirit of the title
Comment: The book is mediocre (confusing and unhelpful in comprehending and reproducing Eddie Van Halen's signal path), and the accompanying CD deserves zero stars. Please help me find language harsh enough, if possible, to describe this CD. After gathering articles about genuine star guitar rigs, one editor bothered pouring his time and energy into making a so-called sample CD -- using an amp simulator!
I just can't *stand* the sound of *any* tracks on that CD: fake, fake, incomplete, half-baked Tone at best. This is the worst amp tone sample CD I've ever heard. Lose-your-lunch awful. It's positively *evil* and harmful, misleading and misguiding young guitarists to make them think that this wretched non-range of non-Tone is even worth putting down on tape. It's mediocre *at best*; well suited for -- nothing. I wouldn't let my dog listen to it.
Why would anyone ever choose to listen to this wretched fake sound when they could easily put on a genuine, rich sounding record instead? If some kid wants to record such a fake sound, that's their business, but it is downright immoral to use the opposite of Tone, to create a CD that is marketed as showcasing the authentic, *real* amp sounds, including actual power tubes and bona fide speaker distortion, which are explained to some extent within the book.
The *only* thing the CD demonstrates 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. No content of the book can make up for this sin and crime against the guitar gods. The CD proves that simulators and emulators are the equipment of the mortals; actual cranked amps are essential to the qualifications of the guitar gods.
This sample CD could be the greatest boon to amp tone, by scaring people away from amp simulators, putting some fear of the devil into them, 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 multimiked in an isolation booth.
Rating: 5
Summary: Prown and Sharken Great TEAM !!!!!
Comment: Gear secrets is an interesting book full of the type of thing you would have read in the old Guitar shop magazine. The diagrams are easy to follow and the explanation of the signal chains are often done in the own words of the artist.
There is a good mix of players from vaious musical genres and enough info to satisfy players of all types. Even if you are not interested in certain guitar players it IS interesting to read about how they set up their gear.
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Title: Getting Great Guitar Sounds: A Non-Technical Approach to Shaping Your Personal Sound by Michael Ross ISBN: 0793591406 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Guitar Tone and Effects : A Manual for Getting the Sounds from Electric Guitars, Amplifiers, Effects Pedals and Processors by David M. Brewster ISBN: 0634060465 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Dod Presents 100 Superstar Guitar Sounds on a Stompbox Budget by Eric Mangum, Dean Stubbs ISBN: 157560342X Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Guitar F/X Cookbook by Chris Amelar ISBN: 079356509X Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Speed Mechanics For Lead Guitar by Troy Stetina ISBN: 0793509629 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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