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Description of the book
What is it about?
- Do you want to develop your personal sound?
- Do you want to create great guitar sounds easily and quickly?
- You are about to invest a sizable amount of money and you want to find the best choice for you?
This book explains in a practical, straightforward and simple way how to obtain great guitar sounds by setting your preamplifier! It shows dozens of solutions about the use of amplifiers, effects, processors, MIDI footswitch controllers and whatever else is useful or vital to a guitarist. All this with a fresh approach:
- Language: the book was written in the simplest language, using terms and concepts that anyone can understand. Even who explores this field for the first time won’t find any difficulty to understand the meaning of the explanations or the suggested settings.
- Pictures: dozens and dozens. Great care was taken about the quality and the user-friendliness of the pictures. Icons and simple, neat drawings support a text which is already self-explanatory.
- Testimonials: quotes and advice from the greatest guitars of the past and of the present to support the explanations. Such tips will prove extremely useful to learn from the greats the ideas that Donato will further explain
- Anecdotes & jokes: nice and funny, to turn the hardest topic into a piece of cake. Sense of Humor even on difficult subjects.
Tricks of the Trade
While the first half of the book talks about the specific topic in the title, the second half is about the “tricks of the trade” that can be performed with this device. Here you will find descriptions and examples about tricks that only pro players know: how to set the amp volume on stage, how to get a lot of saturation without ruining the sound, how to use Overdrives, Compressors and Equalizers to “pump” the sound of your guitar, and dozens more. You will also find precise answers to the eternal dilemmas: what’s the best system, valvestate, transistor or digital? Or: what’s better, a combo, head + cabinet or a rack system?Every page will surprise you.
Some of the topics
Here’s an excerpt from the most important topics in the book:
- Inputs/outputs and connections
- Send & Return in series and in parallel
- Live sounds, sounds for cover bands, Home recording.
- The sounds of a session guitarist
- MIDI - Program Changes, mapping, etc.
- “Direct” guitar connection
- Replacing the valves
Book Structure
Every Chapter begins with a list of the goals to reach, and ends with a short questionnaire, very helpful to guarantee the best possible learning.
Final Comment
It’s a book written by a guitarist, for guitarists. Regardless of your technical level and of the kind of music you play, you will find the advice that will lead you to obtain the fullest sound from your setup and from yourself. If what you care about is to carry on studying and playing without wasting time on incorrect sounds, and if you want some precise and immediate tips, with all the right “dos and don’ts”, this is the book for you.
Where can I find it?
You can buy this book in all the best music bookstores in Italy.
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