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The subject of guitar tone has received much innovation, exploration, and debate among players and enthusiasts for decades. With the world of tone becoming wider each day, it can be overwhelming for players to choose the right gear for their style and sound.
Fortunately, How to Get Great Guitar Tones shows you exactly what you need to achieve the best sound for any situation. Author Stephen Davis takes you through a comprehensive set of topics, including:

• Guitar rig breakdown
• Types of guitars
• Amps, speakers, and cabinets
• Pedal effects
• Building pedalboards
• Rig options for mono, stereo, wet/dry, and wet/dry/wet
• Troubleshooting problems
• Matching tones to styles
• Demonstration audio tracks
• And more!

To make things even more clear, the book is filled with many pictures and diagrams to help you visually put together the options for building your dream rig. Also included are over 100 demonstration audio tracks that showcase the tones described within, mixing and matching different guitars with a variety of amps and effects.


Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Summary of a Guitar Rig
• Chapter 2: Guitars
• Chapter 3: Amplifiers
• Chapter 4: Guitar Cabinets and Speakers
• Chapter 5: Modeling and Going Direct
• Chapter 6: Building a Pedalboard
• Chapter 7: Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz, and Boost
• Chapter 8: Compressors
• Chapter 9: Filter Effects
• Chapter 10: Noise Reduction
• Chapter 11: Equalization
• Chapter 12: Modulation Effects
• Chapter 13: Delay
• Chapter 14: Reverb
• Chapter 15: Pitch Shifters
• Chapter 16: Other Effects
• Chapter 17: Buffered-Bypass, True-Bypass, and Buffer Pedals
• Chapter 18: Placing Effects in Your Rig
• Chapter 19: Rig Output Options
• Chapter 20: Troubleshooting Your Rig
• Chapter 21: Matching Tones to Styles
• Major Recordings Using the Gear We Have Discussed
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author

Catalog:	HL00389774
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
Composer:	Stephan Davis
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Voicing:	Guitar
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Pages:	104