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Guitar Tone: Pursuing the Ultimate Guitar Sound is an amazing resource for guitarists searching for not just the best tone, but their own distinctive, individual tone. First covered are the instruments and components that create tone. The book then examines the sounds and tonal approaches used in different styles of music. The last section features interviews with today's hottest guitarists to learn the secret to their idiosyncratic tones, including gear lists and suggestions for re-creating specific tones.
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- Provides the ultimate resource for guitarists not only searching for the "best" tone, but searching for their own distinctive, individual tone.
- Covers the rigs of famous guitarists, the fundamentals of tone, and the various gear available.
Guitar Tone: Pursuing the Ultimate Guitar Sound Reviews
Guitar Tone: Pursuing the Ultimate Guitar Sound Reviews
| 22 of 23 people found the following review helpful  Perfect Guitar Tone is Elusive, A Never Ending Journey, By This review is from: Guitar Tone: Pursuing the Ultimate Guitar Sound (Paperback) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this?) I have been playing guitar for over 40 years. I bought a 1966 Telecaster or should I say my parents bought it for me brand new back then; cherry picked it, and I still have it. Oddly enough the Fender Squier Classic Vibe Customs remind me of it in the way it plays and feels but that's fodder for another post.The author of this book Mitch Gallagher I often see on documentary videos from Sweetwater one of the larger stores. I had no idea that he had such an in depth knowledge of all aspects of the guitar. This book goes into everything and most importantly how it affects tone. In a popular Tele guitar forum, one of the members has a signature line that reads, "Tone will beat a thousand notes every time". The reason why I mention that tone is elusive is because Mitch says exactly that in the book. He wishes he could say, "Ok use this type of wood, and this particular set of pickups, etc. etc. and get this exact tone". It doesn't work that way. For example even the... Read more 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful An Exceptional and Useful Resource ..., By This review is from: Guitar Tone: Pursuing the Ultimate Guitar Sound (Paperback) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this?) With over 30 years of guitar playing under my belt, I feel very comfortable working up and down the fret board, but still consider myself technologically "na�ve" when it comes to understanding and explaining tone. The trial and error method of changing pickups, string gauges, tunings and adjusting dials of a multitude of stomp boxes has always served me well in developing a tone that I find appealing. But, my lack of fully understanding the dynamics of my amplifiers (solid state vs. tube amplifiers) and even some stomp boxes (overdrive vs. fuzz vs. distortion) is something that has frustrated and even embarrassed me over the years, especially when talking to other guitarists. Mitch Gallagher's GUITAR TONE: PURSUING THE ULTIMATE GUITAR SOUND provided exactly what I've needed (for decades); a simple, but very comprehensive breakdown of virtually everything that makes an electric guitar sound the way it does. I found this book to be an essential "go to" guide that will serve me for... Read more 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful Music to your ears?, By This review is from: Guitar Tone: Pursuing the Ultimate Guitar Sound (Paperback) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this?) I have a major issue with the subject of this and similar books, so I'll review the book and then have my rant in the comments.This book deals with all aspects of guitar tone, and how each part of the guitar and amplifier combo contributes to the sound. From the type of wood used in the body and neck of the guitar, Mitch Gallagher goes through the obvious things like pick-ups and tube/solid-state amps. He goes on to explain things in considerable detail, so you can see how the various parts of the signal chain contribute to your sound. Each part is explained in easy-to-understand language (there's a whole chapter on things like nuts and bridges, for instance), and I'm sure that even if you're a guitar fan, you'll find something new here. The last part of the book is a series of more than a dozen chapters dealing with "Icons of Tone" - the guitarists who've shaped our understanding of what the instrument can sound like, over the last almost 50 years... Read more |
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