Multieffects for Musicians

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Summary: EQed to perfection
Review: MEfM answered all those nagging questions I had about my guitar effects processors--multieffects pedals, stompboxes, dynamic pedals, etc. Anderton describes how multieffects units are built and operated. He discusses almost every sound processing effect musicians will run into. Then he gives very clear, understandable and _usable_ accounts of the nature of the effect and the parameters that can be used to construct a sound with the effect.

While the title refers to "multieffects," this book is useful not just for owners of processors with multiple effects in a single unit. Guitar stompbox owners and PC studio plug-in owners will find the information just as applicable. After all, it doesn't matter whether your reverb is in a multieffects rack unit, a floor stompbox or multieffects unit, or on your computer screen; the parameters will be the same (give or take what your manufacturer deigns to include), and the information on how to use the individual effect will be the same.

The book is a few years old, but the only significant obsolescence it suffers is in the products it uses as illustrations. The science is the same today as when it was published; the costs of technology available today is far lower, and the variety of technology available far greater. Even the MIDI information is valid today, for the most part.