Recording Techniques of the Guitar Masters

This resource for guitar players begins with an overview of the history of guitar recording techniques, then presents highlights from interviews with 30 guitar heroes, revealing their sonic secrets for specific songs and recordings. There is massive detail on techniques for specific brands of equipment. Later chapters give recommendations for recording gear and advice on building a guitar recording room, plus more tips from the professionals on techniques for mixing and effect processing using brand-name pickups, equalizers, and other gear. One chapter is devoted to microphones. About 30 pages of appendices list performance rights organizations, web references, trade magazines, guitar and equipment manufacturers, recording manufacturers, and top 10 guitar websites. A companion website is also available. Tarquin has won Emmy awards for his work as a guitarist, composer, and music producer for TV and film. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)