Guitar Pedals – Mastering Guitar Effects: Discover How To Use Pedals and Chain Effects To Get The Ultimate Guitar Tone (Guitar pedals and effects)

I think the reason for the wide variation of reviews is the wide variation of the reader’s current understanding of using pedals. This book is very obviously written for beginning pedal users and gives a fantastic overview along with audio files demonstrating the tonal effects of different types of pedals. It is not written for intermediate or advanced pedal users.

Once I received my book, I was truly excited to get into it right away. All the information that is provided, covered many of the questions I had about signal path, finding your specific tone that best suits your playing style, as well as other information I simply wasn't aware of, even with being a seasoned musician, so to speak. These books truly bring the fundamentals of each topic they cover, to an easy to understand learning experience! My first book had tons of information, and delving right in was as exciting as I thought it would be!!

So, I own many of the fundamental changes books and they really have helped me excel at playing the blues and guitar in general. I picked this book up after reading many poor review and figure I would return it, if it truly wasn't that good. The book is good, it provides about 4 examples in the back of the book to chain effects, but it also provides a lot of history and reasoning and meanings and how to use different types of pedals. Some may be turned off by that, but I think it is great that all of that is in one book and I don't have to go to countless website surfing away time looking for understandings and tone effect understandings. Now the author did not intent to give you one direct way to use pedals and early in the book it does state to try different pedals in different places to create unique sounds. In general there is no right way to use a pedal. I've seen people use a compressor after distortion, or even a reverb before distortion to get totally different tones. So why 4 stars instead of 5? The author should have kept the book simple by using general pedal box names like chorus, reverb, echo, etc. rather then using name brands which don't provide much clue to what that pedal is and some are no longer available. That also leads you to go online looking for what that specific pedal is and what is does and what makes it so unique, distracting you from the fundamentals of the book, which is why you bought the book. Another reason for the 4 stars is that there are quite a few typos in the book, an editor or at least a proof reader should have been used.

I have around 100 guitar pedals and almost as many books on achieving "that tone." Although other books may have had example sounds, this is the first that actually had tabs/music and actually talked theory (both music and physics). It's a pretty good read, the tracks are high quality, and the riffs are awesomely "attainable" (as in you do not need to be a superhero, but some practice is needed). Very good comparison of styles and what works well with each type of pedals. Thanks!

Like this series of books. What I was looking for was advice on physical setup of pedal board and how to organize pedals along your signal path. This book was ok with these things, but I’ve actually found what I was looking for online and on YouTube.

I am a novice with guitar effects. I have the Fender GT 40 Modeling Amplifier, and wanted a better understanding of how to get the best sound by chaining different amps and effects. This book gives great explanations for each class of effects, and the downloadable content lets hear a clear example. I haven't used the music/TAB that accompanies each audio example yet, but plan to practice a lot of them. Highly recommend.

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Unfortunately, I ignored the negative reviews (they did not provide enough explanation). I thought, perhaps this book is too technical for the average consumer. I was wrong. Frankly, you can learn more about signal chain/routing, electronics processing, tone-shaping, and insights on how famous guitarists achieved their signature tones from other sources (e.g., online reviews from Reverb, Sweetwater, Guitar.com). Consider taking the "Ultimate Guitar Tone School" master class from proaudioexp.com (money much-better spent). Regardless, don't buy this book - it is a waste of your money and, even if you don't know anything about effects boxes, you'll glean the pertinent content out of this book in less than 20 minutes. Now, considering the current toilet paper crisis . . .

Bought this as a bundle with the book about loopers. It is a nice and good overview about how to use guitar pedals. For the price this is totally ok. But nothing very special.

Parte dalle basi anche con interessanti digressioni storiche e passa in rassegna tutti i principali pedali per chitarra dai tempi di Jimi Hendrix ai giorni nostri, mettendoli in relazione anche con i generi musicali che ne fanno più largo uso e suggerendo vari trucchetti per dare qualche effetto particolare. Dopo di che, analizza anche le possibili combinazioni di effetti più usate nei vari generi, e conclude con alcune interviste a musicisti professionisti e nozioni di fisica del suono. Ha le partiture di tutti gli esempi scaricabili dal sito internet, sia su pentagramma sia su intavolatura (utilissime le notine in piccolo nel caso di delay, octaver ecc.). Non sono un chitarrista ma si è rivelato utilissimo per capire come impostare le catene di effetti con le chitarre virtuali e permette di ricreare suoni molto realistici anche sui programmi per computer. Decisamente consigliato

No contiene lo que describe, se encuentra mejor información gratis en internet sobre pedales y como conectarlos en un rig.It doesn’t contain what is described, better information can be get it free from internet about stomp boxes and how to connect them in a rig.

I brought this after buying a helix Lt, I always found buying pedal boards and the order of effects complicated. This book has been so useful, providing a great platform to setup basic boards, while giving you the info and knowledge to expand and create your tones with confidence.

Disappointing, content poor, book quality poor, its like a high school student thesis the way its written. Useless for learners and experienced players alike IMHO.