Electronics for Guitarists Book by Denton Dailey cool for DIY Pedal & Amp builders and tweakers

http://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Guitarists-Denton-J-Dailey/dp/1441995358 I've had this book a few months, and thought it was time to share with my friends. I get a lot of emails about DIY technical stuff, and this book says it all way better than I do! The writer is Denton Dailey, and it's just a very well written book I think all tinkerers like myself should have

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[elStinKINGS]

...is it true bypass ???

[MrPartyZombie]

Am I crazy or is this book really $100?

[sngncwby]

Dale Denton was funny too...

[1pcfred]

@deadbirdsings Someone needs to bring you into the shop for an attitude adjustment. I've been into electronics for long enough to know that books are mainly used for reference. Personally I do not have a photographic memory. Much literature is also written about new devices to increase awareness about them too. Believe it or not humanity still manages to create some interesting new parts now and again.

[deadbirdsings]

@1pcfred - I made my points, you didn't refute them (because you can't), and I'm not going to get into a pissing contest over this. Have a bookburning, for all I care. Or better yet, put your relics from the pre-Internet "dark ages" up on Abebooks so that us "Luddites" can buy them. If you've been involved in electronics as long as you claim you have, I don't see what either the web or a book would have to teach you, since past the basics, most of the learning takes place at the bench.

[motokev]

Why ? There's plenty of SMART people out there that will build me an amp or pedals. The amount of time I would have to put into this understanding amp design could be better spent learning guitar. Have you noticed (on UTUBE) that the majority of amp builders are just so so players. Geeee, I wonder why .. maybe they're too busy designing amps

[1pcfred]

@deadbirdsings My experiences with electronics predates the Internet so I well recall when I had nothing but books. Let me just say that today I refer to that time as, "the bad old days" If I had to give up one or the other the choice would be very easy for me to make. Take the books! But bring a truck, because I've a lot of electronics books.

[deadbirdsings]

@1pcfred - Yeah, I have a habit of doing that too, even though the way things are going, it's getting harder to save a local copy, what with people eschewing traditional HTML for Flash programming and things like that. I've often gone back to open something I thought I had saved only to find that what was saved was a blank page. Anyways, I'm not bashing the net, just pointing out some of its flaws. I see books and websites as being complimentary, not rivals.

[1pcfred]

@deadbirdsings If I find anything I think is any good on the net I save a copy locally. I've seen pages magically disappear too often not to today. Plus I never consider time I spend reading about electronics wasted time. All information has to be interpreted in order to be useful. I still buy books about electronics sometimes when I see them, but the net really opens up vistas that can never be fully explored.

[deadbirdsings]

@zoofields - Good for you, man. At least you learned something in college, which is more than you can say for most college graduates. College textbooks are a scam. You're forced to buy them, and usually from the campus bookstore. Campus bookstores always claim they're not being run for profit, but I don't believe that for a second. God forbid that a prof should assign a book that's commonly available at any bookstore! But then the textbook industry wouldn't get to keep its monopoly.

[deadbirdsings]

@ravenslaves - Sounds like Craig Anderton's "Electronic Projects for Musicians". I think it's still in print, although much of the information is out of date. It's worth owning, but you're going to have to modify some of the circuits since he uses op-amps and other components that are no longer available. Anderton also wrote a book specifically for guitarists, which is more recent (1980s?) and so is more up to date. You won't have trouble finding the parts listed in that one.

[deadbirdsings]

"Or put another way there is more electronics information on the Internet than someone could possibly use in a natural lifetime." That's probably true, but as with all things on the net, you have to waste an incredible amount of time sifting the garbage from the golden nuggets. At least the information in a book (assuming it's a good one) is organized, has a TOC and a proper index, has been proofread and fact-checked, etc. And books have longer lifespans than most websites.