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The Electric
Guitar Handbook
The Electric Guitar Handbook is ideal to help both new and existing electric guitarists with the knowledge needed to
get the most out of their instruments and music. It is also ideal at those players who
want to start a band, perform live and even record. More Info |
Currently Writing
Hotrod Your Electric Guitar
How to Modify & Customize Your Instrument
This book will explain how to perform the more common and
desirable modifications to electric guitars, specifically those that require no
specialised tools or advanced repair techniques. Basic installation techniques and methods
will also be discussed.
Emphasis will be on choosing the right parts to fit existing
instruments, their features, their differences, their applications and their effect on
tone.
There will be an in-depth chapter on wiring, which will
include everything the reader will need to plan and complete any wiring job or
modification.
There will be an entire chapter documenting building a guitar
completely from parts, and will cover everything from the planning stage to finishing,
assembly and setup.
Important reference material will be included, for example
pickup colour codes for popular manufacturers, how these relate to each other, and
applying them to schematics. A selection of at least 20 schematic diagrams will also be
included, covering every important and useful wiring scheme.
300 pages
Planned
The Effects Handbook
The recent surge of inexpensive, digital processing and modeling has seen
increasingly complex effects units incorporated into a wide variety of musical equipment.
Standalone FX processors, guitar amplifiers, recording software, synthesizers, PA mixing
desks and electronic drum kits are all becoming increasingly powerful and complex. This
has led to a situation where an increasing number of people, even those at the entry
level, are faced with a steep learning curve and a bewildering variety of options. The
book will break effects usage down to a simple level, explaining:
- What each effect does, the operation of each of the controls
and how it affects the sound
- Specific starting points
- Which FX compliment each other
- How best to get effects to work together
- Practical examples showing which effects work best with
specific instruments and example settings
- Tackling common problems with specific instrument sounds
- Advanced effects techniques section for those who want to
learn how to experiment constructively
Guitar Care and Feeding (booklet)
Drum Care and Feeding (booklet) |
