The Serious Guitarist -- Essential Book of Gear

Song List: Bradshaw Switching System Rockman X-100 Floyd Rose Tremolo System Midi Tube Preamp Tube Power Amp Eventide H3000 Customizing Marshalls Double and Quad Guitars SansAmp The 1990s Pro Tools Matchless Digitech Whammy Pedal Parker Fly Grunge Pedal Sovtek Innovations in the Late 1990s 2000 and Beyond Amp Modeling Guitar Apps 8- and 9-String Guitars Guitar-Based Video Games Look, Ma, No Amp! Fractal Audio Systems Axe-FX II Looking Ahead Part 2: A Close Look at the Electric Guitar Understanding the Electric Guitar Strings Gauge Types of String Windings Roundwound Flatwound Half Roundwound and Quarter Roundwound Materials Ball End Coated Strings Pickups Single-Coil Pickups Humbucking Pickups Active Pickups Handwound Pickups Electronics Fender Stratocaster Setup Gibson Les Paul Setup Series and Parallel Pickup Wiring Coil Tapping and Splitting In and Out of Phase Kill Switches Tone Woods Plywood in Electric Guitars Wood Setup for Gibson SG Standard Wood Setup for Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 Wood Setup for Fender Stratocaster Wood Setup for Carvin Custom 7-String More About Guitar-Building Materials The Truss Rod Fretboard Radius How Radius Affects Playability and Performance Compound or Conical Fretboard Radius Scale Length Conventional Scale Lengths Frets Fret Maintenance Fret Type and Size Number of Frets Neck Profile Tuning Pegs (Machine Heads) The Nut The Locking Nut The Compensated Nut The Bridge The Whammy Bar How to Live in Peace with Your Double-Locking Trem Locking Down a Trem (Blocking) Part 3: The Technical Stuff The Science of Sound Vibrations Amplitude and Types of Waves Overtones (Harmonics) Modulation The Order of Effects Understanding Guitar Amps Tube Amps Solid-State Amps The Combo Amp Amp Heads and Stacks Basic Amp Features Boutique Amps Point-to-Point Wiring How to Chain Amps Together Understanding Speaker Cabinets Cabinets Speaker Cones Open Back or Closed Back? Ohmage and Impedance Tubes Inside a Vacuum Tube Preamp Tubes Power Amp Tubes Biasing Rectifiers and Rectifier Tubes Signal Flow and Level Flow Guitar Gear Levels More About Effects Loops Noise Noise Reduction Noise Is Everywhere Scrubbing the Noise Other Ways to Reduce Noise in Your Rig Physical and Virtual Effects Cabling Cable Test Part 4: Real Rigs and What They Can Do Real Rigs Small Rig Medium Rig The "Real" Rig Setups for Different Musical Styles The Blues Sound The Country Sound The Jazz Sound The 1970s Classic Rock Sound The Funk Sound The Heavy Metal Sound The 1980s Hair Metal Sound The Djent Sound Over the Top Madness Setups of Legendary Players The Eddie Van Halen Sound About the Author Introduction Part 1: The History of Guitar Gear The1930s The First Electric Guitars The First Amplifiers Early 7-String Guitar Early Talk Box The 1940s The Log by Les Paul The Myth of the First Electric Guitar Leslie Rotating Speaker Flanging Leo Fender The Transistor The 1950s Fender Broadcaster Fender Precision Bass Gibson Les Paul Tremolo and Vibrato The Origins of Fuzz Tape Echo Gibson Flying V The 1960s Fuzz Boxes Ring Modulation Marshall Amps Marshall JTM 45: Beginning of the Marshall Stack Compression Fender in the 1960s The Wah-Wah Innovations in the Late 1960s The 1970s Mesa/Boogie Talk Box Phase Shifter MXR Phase 90 Other Phasers Morley Replacement Guitar Pickups: DiMarzio Roland Compressors and Limiters Ibanez Innovations in the Late 1970s The 1980s Paul Reed Smith The Jimi Hendrix Sound The Tom Morello Sound The Michael Angelo Batio Sound The Joe Satriani Sound The Randy Rhoads Sound The Charlie Christian Sound Conclusion Additional Reading