Gorgeous full-page and large-sized color photos throughout pack an illustrated encyclopedia of acoustic guitars which surveys the history, changing styles, and evolution of both acoustic guitars and playing methods. Here is a book any music history library will want: its oversized presentation allows for some lovely displays, its chapters organized by guitar maker encourages audiences to browse by specialty, and its lively interviews with major guitar players and makers alike are both fun and informative.

Acoustic Guitars

Arts & Photography

Dave Hunter

Music

Backbeat Books

(Book). It's a golden age for guitar effects pedal users and makers right now, with over 40 years of design experience and musical experimentation to draw on. Your choice includes the original, pioneering "vintage" models, or souped-up "clones" from more contemporary designers. Dave Hunter spells out the pros and cons of both in this uniquely comprehensive guide. In a guitarist-friendly style, the book explores: what each type of effect does * how pedals work * the best order to connect pedals * and how to make the most of the pedals you have. Also includes exclusive interviews revealing eight top pedal makers' radically diverse approaches to building effects.

Guitar Effects Pedals

Humor & Entertainment

(Book). The sound of rock, blues, country and jazz is not just the sound of electric guitars. It's the sound of electric guitars through amplifiers. For the first time, Guitar Rigs examines the great guitar/amp combinations that have created more than 50 years of fantastic music. Each section includes a full history of guitar and amps and details the construction, components, performance, qualities and drawbacks of each combination. Guitar Rigs is not just a celebration of the collectable treasures of the guitar and amp world. Along the way it evaluates many more instruments, amps and effects, offering alternatives for those trying to conjure great sounds from less-exalted equipment. And it comes with a CD that demonstrates these and many more combinations so you hear them for yourself.

Guitar Rigs: Classic Guitar and Amp Combinations

There's a huge amount of hype and mythology surrounding tube amplifiers in the guitar world. For years, experts have argued over the tiny details of exactly how they do what they do, and how their various components interact. What's undeniable is that, far more than being just a “loudness booster ” the unique combination of tubes, capacitors, resistors, and transformers in these amps can contribute enormously to the quality of sound derived from any electric guitar. In this thorough and authoritative book, Dave Hunter cuts through the marketing hyperbole, and the blind faith, and supplies all the information you need to choose the right amp, and get the best from it. The book also features exclusively conducted, in-depth interviews with leading figures in the tube amp-building world – including Ken Fischer, Mark Sampson, and Michael Zaite – and even provides full instructions on how to construct your own high-quality tube guitar amp from scratch.

Guitar Amplifier Handbook

Backbeat

(Book). Why does an electric archtop sound so different from a solidbody guitar when they have the same strings and pickups? Why does Eric Clapton use a vibrato Stratocaster with the vibrato arm removed and the mechanism blocked off with a piece of wood? Why does a strings-though-body guitar sound brighter than an instrument with the strings anchored at the bridge? The sound of an electric guitar is the sum of many parts. Every component, from the wood in the neck to the metal in the tuners and everything in between including the amount of air in the body affects the overall tone of an instrument. In this book, Dave Hunter looks at the development of the electric guitar since the earliest instruments in the late 1930s, and how, since then, guitar makers and players have sought to define and refine all the elements that create a guitar's tone. This book includes: analysis of the different components that make up a guitar and how each affects the sound of an instrument * chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the main body types, their characteristics, and their strengths and weaknesses * in-depth specifications of over 70 guitars * interviews with significant people in the guitar-making world * accompanying online audio with examples of many of the guitar sounds described in the book. By looking at all the variables involved, this book will set you, the player, on the road to achieving that sound you've always wanted.

The Electric Guitar Sourcebook: How to Find the Sounds You Like

Dave Hunter's Along the I 75 1996: A Unique Driving Guide for the Interstate-75 Between Detroit and the Florida Border

Travel

United States

Mile Oak Pub

These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. King's Lucille, Eric Clapton's Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughan's First Wife, Billy F Gibbons' Pearly Gates, Neil Young's Old Black, and many more. Here's the first-ever illustrated history of the actual guitars of the stars that made the music. Other best-selling guitar histories look at the rank-and-file models, but this book is unique in profiling the actual "star guitars"-the million-dollar babies, such as the 1968 Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix burned at Woodstock, which sold at Sotheby's auction house in 1993 for $1,300,000. Amateurs buy guitars to emulate the stars-Clapton's Strat, Slash's Les Paul-and this book explains the stars' modifications, thus showing how others can recreate those famous tones.

Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked The World

Sweet-Water Press

Guitar: A Complete Guide for the Player

A practical manual for the modern guitarist, Guitar: A Complete Guide contains one thousand shortcuts to help you play, understand and maintain your instruments. This is the most comprehensive manual for the guitar player ever produced. In clear, straightforward language and using specially devised schematics and photographs, it enables you to get the most from your instrument, to fast-track to fluency in all major styles of guitar music, and to develop an understanding of the true potential of any acoustic or electric guitar.

Guitar : A Complete Guide for the Player

Gardners Books

The Totally Interactive Guitar Bible (Tutor Bk,Guit Facts, DVD & CD)

Jawbone

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Books by Dave Hunter

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Acoustic Guitars

Guitar Effects Pedals

Guitar Rigs: Classic Guitar and Amp Combinations

Guitar Amplifier Handbook

The Electric Guitar Sourcebook: How to Find the Sounds You Like

Dave Hunter's Along the I 75 1996: A Unique Driving Guide for the Interstate-75 Between Detroit and the Florida Border

Star Guitars: 101 Guitars That Rocked The World

Guitar : A Complete Guide for the Player

Acoustic Guitars

The Totally Interactive Guitar Bible (Tutor Bk,Guit Facts, DVD & CD)