Book Description
An essential manual for getting the best sounds from electric guitars, amplifiers, effect pedals and digital processors! This book/CD pack features easy-to-follow instructions, with more than 75 photos, to teach the basics of guitar tones and effects. The accompanying CD provides audio examples. Readers will learn: anatomy of the electric guitar; controlling the electric guitar; getting a good clean tone; overdrive, distortion and fuzz; using equalizers; compressors and limiters; noise reduction; modulation effects; reverb and delay; special effects; multi-effect processors; getting a good tone through your PC; famous effected guitarists; and much more!
Customer Reviews:
quite a fun, but not stuff for a single book.......2007-05-14
I really enjoyed reading this book. It is worth, but contains only small amount of information. You may find the entire contents in the book could be written as a couple of chapters. However, the CD was absolutely useful.
Good introduction.......2007-05-07
this book is a nice introduction to effects pedals and their use for the guitar enthusiast who doesn't know the difference between a fuzz tone and a compression pedal.
home studio.......2007-03-20
The information was very helpful in setting up my pedal board. The CD with the audio of all the pedals was really helpful in shopping for new sounds. The diagram for the suggested setup was helpful also.
OK for newbies needs work for everyone else.......2006-06-29
First, an introduction to myself; I took some folk/classic guitar lessens around the age of 13. In high school, I learned the electric bass, but was not involved with any bands or musicians outside of school. After graduation, I rarely played either instrument until about a year ago. Now, I've renewed my interest in guitar and bass and I've been trying to educate myself more about guitars, amps, and effects--things I never really learned about in my younger days. Before purchasing this book, I started by brushing the dust off and reading my old copy of The Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer (A "must have" book)--a book I partially read in my youth, bought and read Guitar Effects Pedals: The Practical Handbook by Dave Hunter (Read this before you buy any effects pedals!), read a library copy of The Stompbox by Art Thompson (History of pedals with many photos), bought and read Getting Great Guitar Sounds 2nd ed. by Michael Ross (A fine book about tone).
I read this book as if I had not read anything else prior. The positives going for this book are that it is well organized and follows a logical progression starting with the guitar itself then amplifiers then effects and so on. The last four chapters, Building a Pedalboard, Multi-Effects Processors, Amplifier and Effect Modeling, Getting a Good Tone through Your PC, Stylistic Guitar Tones, and Famous Effected Guitarists are topics usually not discussed in the other books that I have read. The appendix titled Effected Guitar Music contains a list of effects with a selection of songs along with the artist that demonstrate the effect, something that I wish other books would do. The CD that comes with the book lets the reader hear an example of each effect from the effects chapters 3-12 and also samples from chapters 13-17. I think this book would be good for absolute beginners, but even I picked up a few new things.
The negatives: While this book is meant to be in the genre of an introduction and at 60 pages, is clearly not meant to be a handbook nor encyclopedia, it just barely passes as an introduction due to its very short descriptions and definitions. After reading chapters 13-17, I came away with more knowledge than before, but now wanting more information with no direction on where to go from here. The information you get from this book is analogous to going to a party and getting introduced to several new people then leaving the party coming away with knowing only their names and how they said the word hello. Getting Great Guitar Sounds 2nd ed. by Michael Ross, has 77 pages and does a better job covering most of the material that is presented in Introduction to Guitar Tone & Effects chapters 1-12. The CD contains approximately 13 min of examples. Though not expecting a fully loaded CD, I was expecting maybe 20-30 min of samples. One or two strums on the guitar to demonstrate an effect seems deficient given that effects produce different sounds whether you are strumming chords or playing arpeggios. The examples from the Style chapter were also short and limited. (Note: Getting Great Guitar Sounds does not come with a CD.) Finally, the back cover touts over 74 photos but almost all of them are either out of focus or are some fuzzy computerized representation.
Overal, If you start out knowing nothing about tone and effects, you will have gained some basic understanding by reading this book but you will have little practical knowledge. For more experienced players, I think this book could easily go from "pass on" to "must have" with a little rewriting, clearer photos, and more and better examples on the CD, while still keeping the number of pages between 60-80.
Guitar tone and effects.......2006-05-15
I got some very good ideas to improve the use of my effects. Explains good stuff.
Book Description
Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a form of racism. Our America offers both a provocative reinterpretation of the role of identity in modernism and a sustained critique of the role of identity in postmodernism.
“We have a great desire to be supremely American,” Calvin Coolidge wrote in 1924. That desire, Michaels tells us, is at the very heart of American modernism, giving form and substance to a cultural movement that would in turn redefine America’s cultural and collective identity—ultimately along racial lines. A provocative reinterpretation of American modernism, Our America also offers a new way of understanding current debates over the meaning of race, identity, multiculturalism, and pluralism.
Michaels contends that the aesthetic movement of modernism and the social movement of nativism came together in the 1920s in their commitment to resolve the meaning of identity—linguistic, national, cultural, and racial. Just as the Johnson Immigration Act of 1924, which excluded aliens, and the Indian Citizenship Act of the same year, which honored the truly native, reconceptualized national identity, so the major texts of American writers such as Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, and Williams reinvented identity as an object of pathos—something that can be lost or found, defended or betrayed. Our America is both a history and a critique of this invention, tracing its development from the white supremacism of the Progressive period through the cultural pluralism of the Twenties. Michaels’s sustained rereading of the texts of the period—the canonical, the popular, and the less familiar—exposes recurring concerns such as the reconception of the image of the Indian as a symbol of racial purity and national origins, the relation between World War I and race, contradictory appeals to the family as a model for the nation, and anxieties about reproduction that subliminally tie whiteness and national identity to incest, sterility, and impotence.
Customer Reviews:
Fascinating.......2003-06-21
Walter Benn Michaels has really interesting and unusual ideas. He reads texts in ways that nobody else does. If you are well versed in books like The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, The Sound and the Fury, and An American Tragedy, you will enjoy reading Michael's take on these texts.
A great, daring, and original book.......2001-06-05
Walter Benn Micheals is one of the most brilliant, gifted literary critics in the world. His prose is extremely clear, and his thought is equally challenging.
I hate this book.......2000-10-02
This book is really boring. It's language is confusing, its references to other obscure pieces of literature are too complex, and it just really stinks.
Customer Reviews:
RPG.......2007-09-03
The Players Guide for vamps who just want to have fun. That is, if your definition of fun includes diabolic and murderous acts, and all that sort of thing. Carnage, chaos and do whatever the hell you want is the watchword here.
It's about time someone stood up to the Camarilla!.......1999-06-19
This is a very usefull book weather you intend to play a Sabbat character or not. If you DO want to play as the Sabbat, you definitely need this book. The things I found most usefull was the information on the different paths of enlightenment, the disciplines and the information on Sabbat virtues. All in all this one was ten times better than the Storytellers guid. If you only have enough to buy one of the books, dont make the mistake I did, get this one first! The Sabbat are going to curb-stomp those pansy Camarilla weaklings, so watch out gringos! Join the Sabbat and help tear down the Antedilluvian's pupets and their pathetic masqurade, Uncle Taco wants YOU!
Dont buy this book by itself.......1998-10-13
The Sabbat sourcebook is an insightful look into the Sabbat vampire system......if you already own the Revised system book. Many of the paths are confusing and Much of the Serpents of Light info was simply left out. Its a good book, but cant stand alone.
Don't rely only on this book.......1998-10-13
The Player's guide to the Sabbat is an insightful view into the Sabbat clans, if you own the Revised Masquerade book. Many paths are confusing, and most of the Serpents of Light info was simply left out. This book is useful if you have another $20 to spend.
You NEED it to be sabbat.......1998-10-09
Ha I always am picky with my reviews so a four ain't bad at all it is great. It definately was a great book just to read and definately interesting I wished the camarilla could be that interesting to read about but they are not. It is great for the mental development of any character that is antitribu...a definate recommendation before you even try to play a sabbat character in a camarilla bound world...it will add years to your character by realizing they are not blatantly outforth evil and givingyou more to work with....Enjoy the reading and the help.
Book Description
Brace youself, because here comes QuickSteps: The fast, easy, accessible information on Access 2003 in a full-color cookbook-style format. Provides answers to all of your How-do-I questions in a concise and meaningful way. Lengthwise page layout allows for easy page viewing. Useful tips and cautions are displayed in the margins so that they don’t break the flow of the quick steps themselves.
Customer Reviews:
Book review.......2007-06-10
The graphics in this book makes it easy to understand. Great for a beginner.
3/08/06 Review of Access Quick Steps documentation.......2007-03-09
I am very proficent at Excel and thought that Access would be somewhat similar. I was wrong, Access is proving to be a difficult learn for me. I have learned enough to know that Access is a better way but I am still struggling. I bought Video Professor CD and it was adequate but lacks the reference material that an average learner like myself needs. This book has helped me tremendously! I am currently on Chapter 5 (of 10) and it is beginning to come together. The book, I believe, is for beginners but will handle most issues right up to intermediate needs.
Not Much Depth.......2007-03-08
While Quicksteps covers the basics, I found it shallow, not well organized and a very weak index. If you are starting a database from scratch, it will work you through it, but it was not much help where I wanted to convert several databses to Access. Inexpensive, but worth it.
it is too basic.......2007-02-20
there is nothing wrong with this book as a real introductory book for Access at such low price, but I guess anyone who want to buy an Access book need sth more in depth. I would personally recommend Access for Dummies, which is the second book I bought for self-study.
Great Beginner Book.......2006-11-10
Great Beginner Book
This book gives great pictures will each page and a great how to. Great for first time users.
Book Description
Maybe you got Access as part of Microsoft Office and wonder what it can do for you and your household; maybe you're a small business manager and don't have a techie on staff to train the office in Microsoft Access. Regardless, you want to quickly get your feet wet--but not get in over your head--and Access 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual is the book to make it happen.
Far more than a skimpy introduction but much less daunting than a weighty tech book, Access 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual demystifies databases and explains how to design and create them with ease. It delivers everything you need--and nothing you don't--to use Access right away. It's your expert guide to the Access features that are most vital and most useful, and it's your trusted advisor on the more in-depth features that are best saved for developers and programmers.
Access is sophisticated and powerful enough for professional developers but easy and practical enough for everyday users like you. This Missing Manual explains all the major features of Access 2003, including designing and creating databases, organizing and filtering information, and generating effective forms and reports.
Bestselling authors, database designers, and programmers Scott Palmer, Ph.D., and Kate Chase are your guides for putting the world's most popular desktop data management program to work. Their clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, plenty of illustrations, and timesaving advice help you get up to speed quickly and painlessly.
Whether you're just starting out or you know you've been avoiding aspects of the program and missing out on much of what it can do, this friendly, witty book will gently immerse you in Microsoft Access. Keep it handy, as you'll undoubtedly refer to it again and again.
Customer Reviews:
VERY WORTHWHILE.......2006-08-03
If you are new to Access and want to learn how to do things, this book is very helpful. If you are an experienced user and want to become an expert, this book may not have everything you need. We use this manual in conjunction with the Video Professor and between the two, we are now very comfortable with Access.
Wow - exactly what it says!.......2006-04-06
I own a Network Consulting firm which handles IT for Small to Medium businesses. That said, I know zilch about Microsoft Access. Recently a client asked I provide them with a simple inventory managment database. While I actually set them up with an out of box solution, I figured I should learn Access to possibly do our own development.
This book is really fantastic. I own plenty of tech books; some good, and some not so good. I rated this book high for the two things it does really well:
1. It shows you a nice view of what you *can* do in terms of options at each stage of building/working with a database, and explains them.
2. It applies the information with easy to follow, yet not stupidly simple projects.
I went through 130 pages today alone and if the wife wasn't bugging me to death, would probably knock out a chapter or two more before bed.
Great book. The title explains it all.
Great Way To Learn Access.......2005-12-30
The Pogue Press line does it again!! When I looked down at the retail price for this book I couldn't believe my eyes. If you are new to Microsoft Access and want to ramp up quickly on how to use this exciting application, you would be hard-pressed to find a better bargain to get up to speed in no time.
I usually write longer reviews, but for the price that this book is listed at, this would inefficient and a waste of time. If you want to learn how to use Access 2003, stop reading and pick up this book today!!
***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Book Description
As the most popular database management program on the market, Microsoft Access didn't need much improvement. But with the release of Access 2003, Microsoft managed to further enhance the way people organize, access, and share information. In this new version, Access is more capable than ever, thanks to additional features like automatic error checking, automatic property updating, and the expanded ability to import, export, and work with Extensible Markup Language (XML) data files. The number of features it offers is truly impressive--and potentially daunting. Anyone baffled by the multitude of features and functionality in Microsoft Access can get up to speed quickly with the help of Access 2003 Personal Trainer. Part of our new Personal Trainer Series, this book lets people of any technical level learn exactly what they need to know at their own pace. Unlike many consumer software tutorials that dumb down the material or present it in a confusing fashion, this book is written in a non-technical and engaging style that readers find fun, easy, and informative. This book will not only help existing users, but those who received Access as part of Microsoft Office and are now ready to dip their toe in the water. It starts with Access fundamentals and then moves on to tables, fields, queries, forms, reports, macros, and advanced topics like linking information from an external source. Access 2003 Personal Trainer explains how you can easily:
- Access information from multiple sources
- Link business systems
- Create powerful database solutions
- Share information more efficiently
To best guide learning, Access 2003 Personal Trainer includes detailed diagrams, dozens of task-oriented lessons, and a fully interactive training simulation CD--everything you need to become an Access pro.
Customer Reviews:
excellent book!.......2007-03-10
I love the book! help me to pass the exam and got a certificate
Didn't teach what I needed.......2006-11-10
I do like the format of the lessons and how easy they are to get through. In my opinion, however, the most difficult part of learning Access is to understand the concept of building working relationships between databases. The few lessons addressing this topic were very brief and I feel basically chalked it up to being "a difficult concept to master" and left it at that. I would've preferred more instruction in this area, and less in how to enter data into a table.
I will say, though, if you're just looking for a broad overview in how a database like Access functions, and how to work an already functional database, this is a good resource.
A Lightweight but Effective Primer for the Basics.......2006-02-08
This book grew on me. It is woefully inadequate when it comes to teaching the real use of databases. The ideas and concepts are presented in a very superficial manner. Still, as I plugged on through it, I came to have much more respect for it.
It does not teach the use of databases. Instead, it teaches the Access 2003 interface. In doing that, it does a very good job. I would even venture to say it does a better job at teaching the interface than many larger and more comprehensive books.
The book comes with a CD loaded with projects to accompany the tutorial. In general, the program behaved as described and there was really only one place where my screen would not show what the text said it would show. The illustrations are a bit on the small side but that seems to be normal. They are just big enough to be useful.
The lessons are broken up into individual themes and further broken into very short segments. These short segments may cover only a single command and can be completed in just a few minutes. I found this useful in that I seldom have a long stretch of time I can devote to a protracted lesson. Upon reflection, I think this short subject approach helped in retention as well.
It is a good program to teach the interface but much more is needed to learn how to properly use a database.
Good primer that comes up a little bit short.......2005-09-10
Like the other reviewers, I like this book. I find, however, that it comes up a little short in few areas.
On the good side, the lessons are concise and focused. They concentrate on just what they are trying to illustrate and they are organized in a logical, step-by-step sequence with full detail - click this, drag this, type this, etc. Each one ends with a summary of numbered steps for quick reference. You can learn a lot of basics from this book and it can literally put you into development mode very, very quickly. But...
On the down side, you will only be able to develop simple applications. To do anything beyond the basic, you need to have an understanding of relational database structure and you are not going to get it from this book. "File Normalization" is one of those buzz terms that can make your eyes roll back in your head. Unfortunately, you really need to understand this concept to create even slightly sophisticated databases, and this book does not even include that term in the index (and, therefore, it is nowhere in the book.) Neither does it address Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the programming language for Access and all MS desktop applications. This is not as big a deal, because there is plenty of power built into the core Access functionality and you might create a number of applications without ever needing VBA. But I did want to mention that deficit.
Considering this book is really for beginners, one issue in particular merits mention. Only in the chapter on Queries is there any treatment of input from multiple tables. This issue is not addressed in the chapters on Forms or Reports. I consider this a major negative and the main reason for rating the book only 3 stars.
The author seems to have a preference for the Autoformat tool over the form and report wizards. That may be a personal preference or simply a necessity since he does not address the multi-table source issue which is a key consideration in using the wizards.
As I said, I like this book for what it is. It has few, if any, typos, and if your are a beginner it will likely be a valuable reference for the price. It is likely one of the very best "first books" to buy to learn this application. You will learn a whole lot, very quickly, but it will not turn you into an advanced Access developer.
Access 2003 Personal Trainer.......2005-05-16
This is another book in the new series from O'Reilly Media, Inc. featuring a larger format and two-color printing. The concept is to teach the Access program in bite-sized lessons of two or three pages each, describing in detail all steps necessary to perform a given operation. Every exercise is accompanied by screen captures, which are captioned to show every step of the process. As with any database program, Access 2003 can be hard to learn. This book is well-suited to self-teaching, and provides an effective method of mastering the Access application. If you need to learn Access, this is your best resource.
Book Description
You don't need a computer programming degree to master Microsoft Access, the world's leading relational database solution for Windows. All you need to get quickly up-to-speed on the latest version of this powerful program is
Access 2003 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. The book's proven, task-based format guides you directly to the information you need and explains the program with easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots. Before you know it you'll be creating database tools from scratch that store your data, make it easy to read and modify your database contents, analyze the data, and publish it all on the Web. After using the book to master the basics, you'll want to keep it handy as a must-have reference.
Customer Reviews:
very good, but could've been better.......2006-04-23
Make that 3.5 stars, to be fair.
I really enjoyed (yes, enjoyed) using this book. The chapters on filtering data (chap 10) and those on importing/exporting data (chap 15 & 16) are fantastic. However, the one on creating relationships (chap 7) is pretty weak. I can't believe that Steve Schwartz devoted only 9 pages to the most important underpinning of relational databases.
I also believe that the book would have been much better, had the author used specific projects (like the Northwind database which comes with Access) and stick with it/them.
Despite its failings, this is a very good book, but the student has to always be willing to get online and get info or tutorials for specific subjects not covered in depth in Schwartz's book.
Product Description
The Microsoft Office Deluxe 2003 Quick Start Card Bundle includes everything you'll need to learn the basic features of Microsoft 2003 - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher & Access.
The following Quick Start Cards are included:
Microsoft Word 2003 Quick Start Card,
Microsoft Excel 2003 Quick Start Card,
Microsoft Outlook 2003 Quick Start Card,
Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Quick Start Card,
Microsoft Publisher 2003 Quick Start Card,
Microsoft Access 2003 Quick Start Card
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