Stompboxes are guitar effect pedals that guitarists use to distort and sculpt their instrument's sound. This book tells the story of these pedals, including the more unusual stompboxes and their strange shapes, colours and names, such as "orange squeezer" and "fuzz wah diddy".
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A very interesting HISTORY book.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Stompbox: A History of Guitar Fuzzes, Flangers, Phasers, Echoes and Wahs (Paperback)
This book is full of old stompbox pictures and interesting stories from their creators. The first part deals with the evolution of the different effects, and the remainder of the book tells the stories of the manufacturers. This really is a HISTORY book set mainly in the 1960s and 70s. While there are a number of references to artists who have used the effects in question, I would have liked more track-specific references so that I might really know what these things SOUND like.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The first book of it's kind. We've waited a long time!,
By Bruce Barr (Fuzzblup@aol.com) (Chattanooga, TN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Stompbox: A History of Guitar Fuzzes, Flangers, Phasers, Echoes and Wahs (Paperback)
This book has a great deal of information for those of us who like Stompboxes. What a wealth of knowledge that has been accumulated by Mr. Thompson that we should all be thankful for. I have been collecting stompboxes for over 25 years and found plenty of new information and history that fills in many of the voids that I had. I would love to see it in color photos as I'm sure the future will have that in store. Good Job! Bring us more!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A blast from the past and lotsa history & research here,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Stompbox: A History of Guitar Fuzzes, Flangers, Phasers, Echoes and Wahs (Paperback)
As the US/Canadian importer and distributor for Roger Mayer professional effects I found this work to be detailed and accurate. For late generation players it's a rich resource on not only the electronic and package designs but more interesting to me, the people and events that shaped their existance and how they evolved. Thanks to a Art for much hard work.
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Compared with luthiers and amp builders, stompbox makers have always been on guitar gear's lunatic fringe, getting about the same degree of peer respect as aboriginal medicine men do from brain surgeons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fresh fuzz, octave box, tape echoes, stereo chorus, analog delay, octave divider, distortion device, ring modulator, talk box, digital delay, germanium transistors, volume pedal, phase shifter, view thereof Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fuzz Face, Thomas Organ, Tone Bender, New York, Tube Driver, Final Phase, Floor System, Funk Machine, Big Muff, Memory Man, Small Stone, Sound City, Blue Clipper, Super Fuzz, Tube Screamer, George Merriman, Graphic Equalizer, Green Ringer, Les Paul, Orange Squeezer, Purple Haze, Southern California, Chet Atkins, Down Machine, Eric Johnson New!
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Compared with luthiers and amp builders, stompbox makers have always been on guitar gear's lunatic fringe, getting about the same degree of peer respect as aboriginal medicine men do from brain surgeons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fresh fuzz, octave box, tape echoes, stereo chorus, analog delay, octave divider, distortion device, ring modulator, talk box, digital delay, germanium transistors, volume pedal, phase shifter, view thereof Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fuzz Face, Thomas Organ, Tone Bender, New York, Tube Driver, Final Phase, Floor System, Funk Machine, Big Muff, Memory Man, Small Stone, Sound City, Blue Clipper, Super Fuzz, Tube Screamer, George Merriman, Graphic Equalizer, Green Ringer, Les Paul, Orange Squeezer, Purple Haze, Southern California, Chet Atkins, Down Machine, Eric Johnson New!
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- Bold As Love* by Jimi Hendrix on 4 pages
- Are You Experienced? in Front Matter, and page 150
- Every Breath You Take: Guitar Ensemble Series by The Police on page 132
- Pink Floyd by Barry Miles on page 101
- Fender Stratocaster by Ray Minhinnett in Back Matter
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