- 256 Pages
- Published by Backbeat Books
- Softcover with CD
Product For each e-guitar,
a book, the right to the source of the sound is! The pick-up can be a modest piece of technology, but without them there would be no electric guitars. In The Guitar Pick-Ups Handbook, guitarist and author Dave Hunter explores the history of the converter that mechanical vibrations recorded from its beginnings in the early 20th Century to the Present. He explains why different designs affect the sound of classical electro-gu. . . more>>
If you guitars, sound, love, and modify your instrument, this book is a must-have “. But it has a few problems that there are not perfect. Hopefully a revised edition takes care to take those issues, but there is It is still worthwhile if you are interested.
Even if you just made an order a sentence or two pickups, it’s worth the $ 17 to read this book, and make Ensure that you set the right one for you and your guitar. There are a lot of great information here.
Dave Hunter (again) did a fantastic job with this book . It describes the history of the pickups from all major companies. Then go to most of the major pickup makers describe as many big names like Boutique Lollar and Fralin.
His writing style is clear, and to the point and makes a sometimes lengthy topic fun and interesting.
What is very useful that it breaks down the specifications of almost every pickup made by these decision makers, and are a good description of the sound they produce, (the descriptions are independently specified by the manufacturer.)
There’s a lot of useful technical information and specifications, but there is plenty of material for only one interesting reading.
The best part, IMO, the talks in-depth interviews with the creators.
Dave Hunter each with Kent Armstrong, Joe Barden, Larry and Steve Blucher Dimarzio , Seymour Duncan, Mike Eldred (Fender Custom Shop) Lindy Fralin, Jason Lollar.
It is interesting, for example, that Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro II is developed for Billy Gibbson, (and the Pearly Gates later), the Duncan Custom was for Santana, the Full Shred for Nancy Wilson and his Start and Tele pickups had input to Eric Johnson, Mark Knöfler, Ralph Trower, James Burton, Jerry Donahue, Albert Lee, and so further.
It is a recently published book, and mentioned the articles in tqr PAF, and it has a lot of information about Gibson’s pickup history.
There is also a very useful CD that stuff too many different types of pickups, demos of several vintage PAF’s Boutique and production line pickups.
The disadvantage is that it seems a problem to be dealt with. I have a version with a black cap, and in section Dimarzio, it seems like missing a page (not following p. 134-136.)
; One could also argue that with the large number of small hand-winder, it would be nice if the covered some of these decision-makers and, (WB, WCR, Tom Holmes, etc.)
I would not be surprised if cut to save space, they make some of the more obscure names in the pickup.
said this is a very comprehensive book, and for the majority of the audience, it covers more than you ever know. must
Anyway, that aside, it is a great resource to read a fun and offers an excellent solution for many common questions pickup.
Rating: 4 / 5
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I’m in the final sections of this book – that could pickups so “deep” in so many aspects of design, knew, component placement and ultimately – and can not even say enough about why you should Buy and Read this book!
Dave has a number of pounds in recent years taken, and with each, which I buy, find and read, I learn more than I have in to play the last 35 + years, what I / have owned their own and why I was in a position to toys I had over the years to enjoy myself.
I have every single book he wrote on the guitar and amplifier is pound for Back Beat, and can not recommend enough his tome. Dave manages to enlighten me with each book – and the new one is no exception. While I have in the age of after-market pick-up deals has increased, I never really much attention paid to these “producers” or their products – yeah I’ve heard when they first came out DiMarzios, and of course, Seymour Duncan, my 80′s EMG’s , and lately even Harmonic designs. I have so much, why these services can / so different, for all its outward appearances learned similar. I also learned why some sound design with similar ratings, so different, and why you should not judge a pickup truck based solely on those ratings!
Dave does a great job in the education given those of us, these simple devices for many years, including enough background knowledge to make your head turn to the early attempts to make, have made up, and the new “vintage” market, but also appears in many aspects, we all should consider when updating our axes – this is a great one-stop resource when you are on the market at all for the modernization or even to buy an ax, which you get from the-go can have customized.
I’m aware of some personal preferences for guitar components over the years, but Dave Hunter has truly opened my eyes and brought me back in a much deeper respect than I ever by a simple (wrong become) Marketing or (write straight).
Do yourself a favor and run to the nearest bookstore (or Amazon as I did) and buying this book, even though They are not on the market, you need this information and reading about these wonderful gadgets! know
__________________< br /> Tim Boehlert
. hearditontheweb com
Rating: 5 / 5
If you are looking for a technical discussion about the DIY upgrade or repair of electronics in the guitar, this is not the book. It is a fairly thorough (though certainly not to be and not to all-inclusive) be qualitative history of the pickup production: who has done what they did and why they did it. It contains some fairly thorough overview of the products, old and new, from a significant number of (usually mainstream) owners, inevitably with a consistent enough using a few descriptive adjectives vague that the reader can be something of a get this feeling, what they do pick and why they do. The book includes a CD of Dave played a number of different pickups through a few different platforms, and the results are interesting to hear. Of course, some of the tested models Vintage pickups but to buy the impossible (due to cost and / or availability), but it’s still fun to hear.
I’m also Dave’s book on guitar amps, and I was very pleased to know that the whole I think the amp book has more to offer. Plus, as other reviewers remarked, the treatment in this book so badly as to be sometimes annoying. Check out Dan Erlewine’s “Guitar Player Repair Guide”. He can go to be inspired and wind your own!
Rating: 4 / 5