The Ultimate Guitar Tone School Course
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What you’ll learn
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Build their own Tone from scratch
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Deconstruct famous Guitar Tones from your favorite Guitar Heroes through Rock History
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Understand how Guitar Amps work
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See exactly how Tube Amps are made and see one built from scratch
Learn EXACTLY how Guitar Tone is made. How Pickup Placement, Valve Choices, Effects Order and a myriad of other parts of your signal chain create the Guitar Tone that you crave. With HD Graphics and Animation to show you what’s happening inside your signal chain…you’ll never be left guessing at how to create the epic tone that’s in your head.
- INTRODUCTION
Breakdown of course subjects
History of the Electric Guitar
Variables in Signal Chain - WHAT IS TONE?
What is Sound?
Understanding Standing Waves & Harmonics
Nodes and Antinodes
Harmonic Content on Guitar String
Harmonics produced by Distortion
Understanding Modulation - GUITARS
Main Guitar Types
Pickup Demonstrations (all positions)
– Fender Stratocaster
– Fender Telecaster
– Epiphone Les Paul
– Epiphone 335 Dot
– 1967 Gretsch with FilterTrons
– 1961 Fender Jazzmaster
– 2007 Duesenberg Starplayer TV
– 1969 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with Lollar Imperials
Guitar Controls
Guitar Woods
Necks
Scale Length
Pickup Placement
MIDI Pickups - AMPS
Overview
DIY “Lamington” Tube Amp
How do Tube Amps work?
Tone Stacks
Reading Schematics
Building the “Lamington” Tube Amp
Gain Staging
– Fenders
– Marshalls
– Hi Gain
Amp Effects Loops
Amp Switching - SPEAKERS / MICS
Overview
Specifications
Series / Parallel
Impedance Matching
Miking up Amps
Microphone Positions and Blending - EFFECTS
Overview
Gain (Overdrive, Distortion & Fuzz)
Dynamics (Compressors & Noise Gates)
Flangers
Phasers
Chorus
Tremolo / Vibrato
Rotary Speaker Emulators
Ring Modulators
Wah-wah
EQs
Pitch Shifters
Delays (Slapback, Rockabilly, Ping-pong, Patterned)
Reverb
Loopers
Effect Order
Buffers - RIGS
Overview
Pedalboard Design
True Bypass Loopers
Effect Loops
4-Wire Setup
Wet-Dry Rigs
Wet-Dry-Wet Rigs - ICONIC TONES
Fender Era
– Chuck Berry
– BB King
– Keith Richards
– Stevie Ray Vaughan
– Brian Setzer
– Brent Mason
Marshall Era
– Jimmy Hendrix
– Eric Clapton
– Jimmy Page
– Joe Perry
– Billy Gibbons
– Slash
High-Gain Era
– Eddie Van Halen
– Randy Rhoades
– Zakk Wylde
– Eric Johnson
Vox Era
– Gretsch / Vox Combo
– Duesenberg / Vox Combo
– Brian May - GRADUATION!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to learn about Guitar Tone
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The Ultimate Guitar Tone School Course
Original price was: $94.99.$16.99Current price is: $16.99.
Timothy Berg –
This is definitely the ultimate guitar tone course. The presenters are not amateurs trying to fake it until they make it. They are connected with and have worked together with hall of fame level musicians and share their firsthand experience. (Designing a pedal board for Joe Perry of Aerosmith is good enough for me!)
They go very deep and I had to watch the videos a few times to digest what they were saying. After playing around and experimenting, I will go back and watch them again.
One thing that I will say… if you just picked up your first electric guitar and amplifier last week, you may find yourself a bit lost. This is quite advanced material. I would still recommend it, though. Start immersing yourself and learn the right way. Don’t waste your time trying to be self-taught using the internet. The presenters in this course will definitely not lead you astray.
Chris OConnell –
I am a bass player who plays a little guitar and keyboards. Just want to learn more about creating tones for guitars and baritone.
John-Rock Bilodeau –
I was a bit disappointed that this course seems to focus so much on vintage gear and specific guitar and amp combinations that many beginner to intermediate players don’t own. The course also focusses very heavily on early rock players, so if you’re into other styles of music, don’t expect too much. The section on effects was ok to learn about how the various effects are used, and suggested placement of effects in the signal chain, but didn’t really get into how to use each effect…like what the knobs did and how to set them to get good tone. A lot of it assumes that you have preexisting knowledge of all this vintage gear. I learned a few things, but much less then i had hoped for
Martin Pach –
Hard to understand the words for non-native english speaker.
Using too much technical buzzwords, without explaining them.
Focusing too much time on not such important stuff.
Badly structured course.
To be honest, I have learned so much more from few youtube videos and few articles than in this course.
Keiron Shaun O’Neil –
Great content
John Anderson –
This course is awesome! But of course, I love ALL of the courses by David Wills! 🙂
MartinMcInerney –
This is extremely good value for money. It saved me watching 1000 YouTube vids.
Michael Cornwell –
David is very personable and you can tell he is very excited to teach this course. I am also excited because this is exactly what I was looking for. I’ve struggled with guitar tone for a long time
Simon Bennett –
Once upon a time I bought a Boss Overdrive pedal; I was really disappointed with it. Truth be told this course has taught me that I wasn’t even using it right. And what’s so ridiculous is that bad experience I had based on my own inexperience coloured all my guitar effects choices from that point on. Well, no more. Dave and Rooster laid a great foundation here by starting with the scientific principles of how the guitar actually makes sound – this I found incredibly helpful. The course builds from there into practical application of the plethora of amps/effects/guitars. Now although music can be a creative experimental process there’s no doubt that sometimes there are “dos and don’ts”, and this course really helped me to see that. My thoughts on where the course might be lacking: I think it needs one or two more videos. I’d suggest 1) on more modern musicians – especially interesting ones like the smashing pumpkins; and 2) also just the really commonplace super heavy distortion of modern popular metal bands like Slipknot, or Periphery. Although to be fair Misha Mansoor from Periphery shares much of this himself; so the course helps me navigate the internet a bit better. Highly recommended.
Dariusz Szpunar –
Because I really like it 🙂
Dave Turner –
Have not completed entire course as of this rating.
David Hill –
This course had a far broader, and in depth knowledge base than I was expecting.. and really well presented. I’ve already learnt so much more than expected… and I’ve only watched the first epicode!…AWESOME!