Mini Music Guides: Guitar Care and Gear Essentials
Everything You Need to Know in an Easy-to-Follow Format!
By John Carruthers
Guitar Book
Item: 00-41044
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Easy-to-follow instructions on maintaining your guitar and essential information about gear!
Alfred's Mini Music Guides provide essential information in a convenient size. Take these books anywhere you want to go. Packed with clear, step-by-step instructions and close-up photographs, Guitar Care and Gear Essentials is the best compact guide for guitar maintenance and gear available.
Features:
* For guitarists of all levels and styles
* How to set action and intonation, adjust the truss rod, and maintain frets
* Step-by-step instruction for proper string removal and installation on various types of guitars
* Shows how to solder and maintain electronics
* Detailed guide to setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting Floyd Rose systems
* Comprehensive sections on amps, cabinets, ohmage and impedance, signal flow and level, noise, cabling, and more!
Alfred's Mini Music Guides provide essential information in a convenient size. Take these books anywhere you want to go. Packed with clear, step-by-step instructions and close-up photographs, Guitar Care and Gear Essentials is the best compact guide for guitar maintenance and gear available.
Features:
* For guitarists of all levels and styles
* How to set action and intonation, adjust the truss rod, and maintain frets
* Step-by-step instruction for proper string removal and installation on various types of guitars
* Shows how to solder and maintain electronics
* Detailed guide to setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting Floyd Rose systems
* Comprehensive sections on amps, cabinets, ohmage and impedance, signal flow and level, noise, cabling, and more!
Contents
| Title | |
| About the Authors | |
| Introduction | |
| Part 1: Guitar Care | |
| General Setup | |
| Changing the Strings | |
| Removing Old Strings | |
| Installing New Strings | |
| Locking Tuners | |
| Stretching the Strings | |
| Stringing Fender Slotted Machine Heads | |
| Truss Rod Adjustment | |
| Direction of Adjustment | |
| Testing for the Proper Amount of Bow | |
| Measuring the Amount of Bow | |
| Adjusting the Action at the Bridge | |
| Necessary Tools | |
| Measuring Action Height at the Upper End of the Fingerboard | |
| Setup Specifications | |
| Making the Adjustments | |
| Adjusting the Action at the Nut | |
| Bone, Plastic, or Graphite Nuts | |
| Measuring Action at the 1st Fret | |
| Re-Slotting to Specifications | |
| Important Rules | |
| If the Slot Is Too Deep-Shimming the Nut | |
| Mechanical Nuts | |
| Making the Adjustments | |
| Intonation | |
| Basic Principles of String Length | |
| Electronic Tuners | |
| Reasons to Use an Electronic Tuner | |
| Finger Pressure and Intonation | |
| Testing and Adjusting Intonation | |
| Acoustic Guitars | |
| Cleaning and Polishing Your Guitar | |
| Types of Finishes | |
| Choosing the Correct Cleaning Solvent and Polish | |
| Polishing Cloths | |
| Preliminary Cleaning with Damp and Dry Cloths | |
| Cleaning Lacquer and Synthetic Finishes with Chemical Solvents | |
| Removing Oxides and Abrasions from Lacquered and Synthetic Finishes | |
| Waxing and Polishing | |
| Cleaning and Polishing the Unfinished Fingerboard | |
| Routine Cleaning | |
| Electronic Maintenance | |
| Soldering | |
| Cleaning and Lubricating Components | |
| Your Setup | |
| Setting Up and Adjusting Your Floyd Rose System | |
| Introduction | |
| History of the Modern Tremolo | |
| Beginnings of the Floyd Rose Tremolo | |
| Features | |
| Understanding the Basic Principles of Operation | |
| Floyd Rose System Parts | |
| Stringing Your Floyd Rose Tremolo | |
| Adjusting Your Truss Rod | |
| Angle of the Base Plate | |
| Setting the Base Plate Angle | |
| Setting Action at the Bridge | |
| About the Floyd Rose Nut | |
| Setting Nut Height | |
| Setting the String Retainer | |
| Setting Intonation (String Length) | |
| Tremolo Arm Assembly | |
| Tools Required for Adjusting Your Floyd Rose Tremolo | |
| Troubleshooting the Floyd Rose Tremolo | |
| Problem: String buzzing | |
| Problem: Excessive string breakage | |
| Problem: Tremolo can't be adjusted to sit parallel to the face of the guitar with claw adjustment all the way in | |
| Problem: The guitar won't stay in tune | |
| Problem: Fine tuners won't adjust | |
| Problem: Height adjustment screws are bottomed out, but the action is still too high | |
| Problem: When I use my tremolo, the springs make noise | |
| Part 2: Gear Essentials | |
| 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 | |
| Fingerboard Radius | |
| How Radius Affects Playability and Performance | |
| Compound or Conical Fingerboard 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 | |
| Locking Down a Trem (Blocking) | |
| 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 |
Additional Information
| Series: | Mini Music Guides |
| Author: | John Carruthers |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Format: | Book |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Item Number: | 00-41044 |
| ISBN 10: | 0-7390-9636-2 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-0-7390-9636-9 |
| UPC: | 038081460666 |
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