Guitar Player Repair Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)Dan Erlewine is undoubtably one of the great masters of guitar repair, but what really sets him apart is his willingness to share the techniques and tricks he's picked up over the years.
Too many books gloss over the details- "now attach the bind..." Atach it? How? To what? WIth what glue? The reader is left wondering, and eventually gives up or tries hit and miss to figure it out.
But Erlewine takes you through the whole process step by step, assuming nothing. He'll show you how to replace a bit of chipped inlay, or a cracked top, using tools you can buy and some you can make yourself as well.
Simply the best book for the beginner and the expert alike.

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Whether you simply want to maintain your guitar or hot-rod it into a radical new incarnation, this book is the ideal guide. By the columnist of Guitar Player's popular Repairs and Modifications column, this comprehensive book is a must for any guitarist who needs information on beginning repairs through advance enhancements. 8-1/2 inch. x 11 inch..

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Tube Guitar Amplifier Essentials Review

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(More customer reviews)I am new to guitar amps, but not to electronics. This book appears to be a collection of instructive magazine articles that appeared over many months or years. Each chapter would have been a separate article/issue. Thus, the chapters fail to build upon each other as one would expect in a more formal book. Consequently there is excessive repetition, always beginning from the most basic level, even well into the book. The result is much less information than could have been included in such a thick book. One example would be explaining the difference between AC and DC on page 120. The book often lacks schematic drawings. Thus the author describes (for example) a bridge rectifier in words but fails to provide a circuit drawing. I would have expected more schematics in this sort of book. Another annoyance the author's habit of referring the reader to his other books for certain procedures, such as adjusting a tube bias. I would have expected a 529 page book devoted to tube amplifiers to include such procedures.
On the positive side, the book is highly readable with only a few copyediting errors, and I'm reasonably certain that I now know more about guitar amplifiers now than I did before.

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From the amp guru, and columnist for Vintage Guitar magazine, comes a future classic that features more than 60 easy-reading chapters de-mystifying the complex world of tube amplifiers. Over eight years in the making, it covers the basic knowledge and the practical steps to work on this type of amplifier, the preferred type of amp for millions of guitarists and technicians.

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Amps: The Other Half of Rock 'N' Roll Review

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(More customer reviews)As the title of this book implies, it is about the role of guitar amplifiers in creating the unique signature sounds that many people instantly associate with various bands and guitarists they've heard over the years. While many musicians and the public tend to focus on the guitar itself in providing a unique sound, amps easily account for half or more of the sound quality and tonality of a performance. This book includes a good technical description of how guitar amps work, what makes them different from other types of amplifiers, and a worthwhile discussion of vintage tube amp tone versus the reissue models now being marketed by various manufacturers. It also has a useful troubleshooting section for dealing with various symptoms of an ailing amp. Perhaps the most interesting part of the book is on the human nature side, providing excellent thumbnail sketches of the various companies and personalities that were involved in pioneering amplifier innovations, such as Jim Marshall and the legendary Leo Fender. The book also deals with the histories and/or products of other companies (including Vox, Ampeg, MESA/Boogie, Roland, Gibson and others), and has lots of photographs and reproductions of old advertising fliers. My only complaint about the book is that it misses the opportunity to give at least a little bit of technical specifications for the amps that are discussed and pictured. As just one example, on page 21 there is a photograph of a Fender Tweed Deluxe that was taken in Tuscon with the caption: "This cinder-block wall art surrounding Tucson's biggest meat packing plant seemed like the logical place to shoot this amp. Musta been the heat." The effort at humor aside, a more useful caption might have been, "This model Tweed Deluxe was manufactured by Fender between 1954 and 1961 and boasted a single 12" Jensen and 15 watts of power." It would have been a mistake for Fliegler to try to provide extensive technical specs on the numerous amps that are pictured throughout the book, but a little more detail in the captions would have been appreciated. I wouldn't want this one narrow criticism to overshadow the value of this entertaining and useful book, which will be of interest to players and collectors alike. The best thing you can say about a book is that it will change the way you think -- and that is exactly what this book will do for the performing guitarist who has underestimated the impact of guitar amplification in providing a unique and personalized sound. As a well known working guitarist and someone who also worked for Marshall, Fliegler has the credentials and experience needed to speak on this subject with a lot of authority.

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The Guitar Amplifier Player's Troubleshooting Guide: A do-it-yourself troubleshooting guide for musicians (Volume 1) Review

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(More customer reviews)An excellent reference manual for guitar amp problems and how to solve them. If you can't, the author tells you what is wrong so you know what to say to your tech. This book will quickly become a staple for anyone who owns a guitar amplifier, and it is a great companion book to the other book, the Guitar Amplifier Player' Guide.

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THE GUITAR AMPLIFIER PLAYER'S TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDEEver been stuck at a gig or practice session with unwanted hiss, ghost notes, muddy, harsh or trebly tone? How about squealing or hissing? Buzzing or ringing? Tremolo or reverb trouble? Rattling or vibrating? The Guitar Amplifier Player's Troubleshooting Guide is the definitive source for fast answers to your guitar amplifier troubles. Written by Maven Peal's Dave Zimmerman, author of The Guitar Amplifier Player's Guide, the Troubleshooting Guide arms you with the info you need to quickly and effectively take on whatever problems you encounter, in whatever spot you're in.

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How to Hot Rod Your Fender Amp: Modifying your Amplifier for Magical Tone Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been messing around with amps for over thirty years and thought I knew a fair bit about them. It turns out I knew almost nothing, and that the reason most of my modifications led to worse-sounding amps rather than better-sounding was because I kenw almost nothing. This book was worth twenty times what I paid for it just because it helped me resurrect one of my botched do-it-yourself projects from several years ago. Now instead of having a $1000 end table, I have the genuine tone monster amp I wanted in the first place.
The most amazing thing is that this book is a fun read. The author has a great sense of humor, making what could easily be a dry technical tome into an interesting book. This was quite an accomplishment.

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This guidebook shows owners and dreamers the basics of getting the best sound possible out of their Fender amp with simple and advanced modifications. These include essential and fundamental tips like selecting tubes, capacitors, pots, and other electronic equipment, as well as biasing and setting up your amp. It also covers great hot-rodding enhancements to give you the tone of the pros at your fingertips, such as making one channel into an overdrive channel, modifying tone controls, making one channel either a Marshall or Vox channel (changing preamp and tone arrangement—not a permanent, destructive mod), building splitter boxes to run two amps simultaneously, creating splitter speaker setups within one amp, building the perfect gig amp (something light and portable, but with big sound, like an early Mesa Boogie), and more.

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The Guitar Player Repair Guide - 3rd Review

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(More customer reviews)Dan Erlewine's latest edition of the Guitar Player Repair Guide is a worthy update. There are numerous additions and updates anyone familiar with the previous editions should check out. If you are new to the guitar, this book is the maintenance and repair guide than will help you maintain your investment, and even give you great tips on how to hod-rod, customize or fix your guitar.
The book is organized and logically arranged with Basic, DIY and Deep sections in each chapter. Electric, Acoustic and Bass guitars are all covered with detailed narrative and clear pictures.
Even if you are not up to jobs like fret work or truss rod adjustments, this book will prepare you to talk with your friendly neighborhood guitar repair guy about getting your guitar back to its former glory.
Very highly recommended. Make this your first purchase for your guitar dedicated bookshelf (doesn't everyone have those?).


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This expanded edition for beginners to experts is a step-by-step manual to maintaining and repairing electric and acoustic guitars and basses. Players learn how to set up a guitar and keep it in top form by mastering basic maintenance. Features an essential DVD that makes guitar maintenance easier than ever. New features include set-up specs of leading players; stronger coverage of guitar electronics, including pickups and wiring diagrams; and expanded coverage of acoustics.

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