This package will teach you exactly how to modify and custom tailor each of your effects pedals to your needs and tastes. No experience needed! Includes: * Complete details on how to modify OVER 80 DIFFERENT EFFECT PEDALS! * Basic Definitions and Concepts of effect pedals, their circuitry, and mods * "Walkthroughs" of various circuits - what all those parts do, and what you can change it to * Detailed close-up pictures of the pedal's circuit boards showing where the parts are located * Where to get parts and what kind to get * Download videos included: how to modify effects, how to solder/desolder * All About Components, the different types, and what they do in guitar pedals * How to read and understand schematics * Installing Pots and Switches to control mods * Installing a Pot in place of a Resistor (add your own bass/ mids/ treble controls!) * True Bypass Box Diagram * Most pedals have several different modifications that can be performed, all included!
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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This book has something for all levels of electronic understanding!,
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This review is from: How to Modify Guitar Pedals: A complete how-to package for the electronics newbie on how to modify guitar and bass effects pedals (Paperback)
I have a educational background in electronics (thanks to the USAF) and MA in Education (Secondary Ed.). I can honestly say this book is designed for all levels of electronics ability. The opening pages give great descriptions of how different components physically appear, are measured with a multimeter, and interact with each other. The modifications are detailed with schematics, pictures, and component values in easy to read tables.
I personally gig with my modded BOSS CS-3 (compressor), DS-1 Distortion, BD-2 (Blues Driver) every weekend. It is so nice to have gear that sounds good for the fraction of the cost of some boutique items. I was so impressed with the quality of this book, I purchased his advanced DIY effect building book. I recently built my own "boutique" fuzz-face from his written instruction and my own ideas. Mr. Wampler has an wonderful gift for writing technical information in an easy-to-read, fun, and inspiring way. You will not be disappointed with this purchase.
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love it!,
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This review is from: How to Modify Guitar Pedals: A complete how-to package for the electronics newbie on how to modify guitar and bass effects pedals (Paperback)
This book took me from being afraid to open a pedal to modding, tweaking, building my own, and opened the door to modding amps. I cannot recommend it enough. Has all the basics to get you started from having nothing to what tools to buy, where to get them, components, basic theory, how to tell a resistor from a diode, etc. So many pedals to choose from, you might find yourself buying used pedals just to mod them and see how you can make them sound more to your liking. Most pedal mods have multiple selections for indivudualized tweaking. And most have descriptions of which components change which parts of the sound so you can really get things to your liking. With the discussion forums online all questions not covered by the book are answered. Highly recommended!!
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The most expensive and hardened toilet paper I have ever bought.,
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Hi everyone and prepare yourselves for sad news about these 332 sheets of paper pasted togher...
I'm not calling it a book, even if this item is sold in cathegory "books". Do not be mislead by the number of pages (334!), the same amount of information could have been well set on 100 pages. The author just prefers to leave about 50% of every page empty. Add to this a completely awful editorial layout and poor quality black and white photos. Still if you are not confused by the mentioned above info and want to use this "book" to modify pedals you'd better get yourself a big magnifying glass because all the electric diagrams are barely traceable and every simgle one seems to be a reprint of some bad qality bleached photocopy of a scheme which in its turn had been printed by an old dot-matrix printer, and with all this quality the author had the conscience to downscale every scheme to fit a single page. Could you imagine anything worse? Alas, Brian is the man who can make things even worse yet: some of electric diagrams are in freehand which shows first of all that he author doesn't descend on using a ruler and doesn't care in general to make the lines right and straight and the overall scheme inviting to the eye... Who needs computer graphics these days when there is a pen and trembly hand?! The text itself is very jerky: first the author tries to make an introduction of electric components rudimentals but in a very hurried and patchy manner, then for some reason he gives a detailed description of what electronic parts could be found in this or that internet shop (a small embedded advertising?) and then he finally goes to the description of guitar pedal mods. A small surprise: there is NO general info about modifying, there is just a collection of mods to some particular pedals which reader could even not have. No referencies to the mods' authors, but sometimes the author gets honest in his own way and writes laconically "found on web". Conclusion: we all want to earn money, Brian Wampler is not an exception. He piled together some guitar pedal mod recipes found on web (a process that could take some time indeed), retrenched editing expenses by not having any layout designer at all, inflated the book's volume for a better presentability by adding as much useless space as he was able to (things that could happen innocent of wrong intention when your print your book using some simple text editors not suitable for book editing), and then Brian desided to sell this all for a price that is much higher in comparison with many other books of considerably better quality sold on Amazon. Dear Brian, no hard feelings, but this was the most expensive and hardened toilet paper I have ever bought. Dear guitar pedals' mod fans, you'd better spend some time on the Internet and you'll find much more info and for free! PS I wanted to send it back for refund, but the very delivery of it from Russia costs about 80% of the book's price (yeah, that is what we have about regular post service prices here), so this review is the only way I can renumerate the author with.
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