Guitar Pedals – Mastering Guitar Effects

Nail Your Killer Tone With This Complete Guide to Guitar Effects Pedals

All guitar players are on a never-ending quest for the perfect tone, and are constantly trying to discover the right combination of effects to achieve the sound we hear in our heads. Will getting a specific pedal solve our tone problems, or is it simply the way our rig is configured?



Guitar Tone Guru Rob Thorpe Gives a complete rundown on every type of guitar pedal, and answers all these questions and more in Guitar Pedals: Mastering Guitar Effects. If you have ever wrestled with your tone, this book is for you.



Solve These Common Guitar Tone Problems:

What’s the best order to chain your effects together?

Should distortion come first or last?

What about modulation?

Certain pedals should sound great but kill my tone?

What am I doing wrong?

What are the best reverb/delay pedals on the market?

What’s the difference between a Big Muff, a Tubes Screamer and a Reaper Pandemonium?

Much More Than “This Pedal Does That”…

Guitar Pedals: Mastering Guitar Effects is much more than a simple guide to the types of guitar effects. You’ll go in-depth to discover:



The types of pedals available and how each one sculpts your guitar tone

How to use each guitar pedal properly

How to configure your guitar pedal board to correctly get the sound you want

The best distortion, compression, modulation and delay pedals to use… and when!

How guitar pedals should really sound and what you can achieve with them

How to get those “special effects” you’ve heard the pro guitarists use

Plus Two Free Bonuses:

Bonus One: Interviews with three touring/recording guitarists about how they created and use their rig for gigs and in the studio, revealing some great insights, including Cradle of Filth’s Richard Shaw



Bonus Two: Effects physics for the curious, a dedicated section to show you how a guitar pedal does what it does!



Learn how to master delay to double-up riffs and even create backwards solos … in harmony!



And much more...



Here’s what you get:

Guitar Pedals: Mastering Guitar Effects includes studio quality recordings to demonstrate how each stomp boxes sound and you’ll learn dozens of useful guitar licks appropriate to each effect. It’s not just theory, this is a practical guide with great examples and individual chapters dedicated to:



Fuzz,

Distortion,

Overdrives and Boosts

Delay

Modulation

Wah-Wahs and Envelope Filters

Compression

Reverb

Plus, an all-important chapter on how to chain effects together and build up your pedalboard!



Hear it!

Each type of effect is demonstrated with some great licks. Studio quality audio is FREE to download. You’ll actually hear the difference between a Big Muff and a Tubescreamer; an Astrospurt and an MXR Phase 90, and many more.



Not only will you learn how to build your rig for maximum tone, you’ll learn some cool licks that highlight the best qualities of each effect.



Above all, this is a practical guide that teaches you to use guitar pedals to create the perfect tone.