Covers many major trademarks and manufacturers, including Fender, Marshall, Vox, and Ampeg, in addition to many smaller companies. The new first edition contains detailed descriptions and images on most popular models, both vintage and new.

13 is your lucky number! The 13th Edition Blue Book of Acoustic Guitars is now expanded to 832 pages including a new 16-page color Photo Grading System. It also has guitar reference information and values on over 900 guitar manufacturers/distributors including Gibson, Martin, Ovation, Taylor, Alvarez, Epiphone, Takamine, Washburn, Gretsch, and Guild as well as many independent luthiers and custom builders. Other features include a database of over 3,500 acoustic guitar images available on our website, a detailed serialization section, and contact information for all current manufacturers. With over 7,000 acoustic guitars listed in the 13th Edition Blue Book of Acoustic Guitars, 13 will be your lucky number!

The 2nd Edition covers many major trademarks and manufacturers, including Fender, Marshall, Vox, and Ampeg, in addition to many smaller companies. Contains detailed descriptions and images on the most popular models, including both vintage and new amplifiers. A color section also helps determine conditions.

The Guitar Amp Handbook: Understanding Tube Amplifiers and Getting Great Sounds, Updated Edition brings fresh information to the table to help guitarists understand everything about what makes their amps tick and how to use them to sound better than ever. It builds on the popular original edition of the book, first published in 2005. Central to the book's success is the way it walks musicians through the significance of each crucial circuit stage and component of a great number of classic and modern tube amp designs, helping guitarists get the most from the amps they already own or choose new amps that are best suited to their needs. The Guitar Amp Handbook reveals many of the tips and tricks used by today's top designers and builders, and it debunks the hype used by the marketing departments at large manufacturers keen on selling specific amps that might not be right for particular players. The book is designed to help guitarists understand what really goes on inside tube amps and where the tone comes from. This new updated and expanded edition adds further knowledge to the foundation, ensuring it continues as the most thorough and authoritative publication on the subject to be found anywhere.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date electric guitar pricing book has been dramatically improved! The new 10th Edition Blue Book of Electric Guitars is now over 1,000 pages, and features an all-new, digital color Photo Grading System (a Blue Book Publications, Inc. exclusive!). The Photo Grading System is the consumers best tool to correctly ascertain the various grades of both new and vintage electric instruments. These digital high resolution color photos enable even a novice to lock into each guitars unique condition factor easily and accurately, showing a variety of real world condition factors over a wide range of models and configurations. Remember, if the condition factor isnt right, the price is wrong. Why guess when you can be sure? Written by Zachary Fjestad and edited by S.P. Fjestad, the 10th Edition Blue Book of Electric Guitars keeps the reader up-to-date on new and vintage pricing, technical information on electric instruments, and serialization on most major trademarks showing the year of manufacture.This new 10th Edition lists the current and discontinued electric companies and luthiers, contains a thoroughly revised Trademark Index, including contact information, and features hundreds of B&W photos depicting popular makes and models. Reliable guitar information has never been easier!

This book is for the fans of guitar amplifiers and the history that lies behind them. Starting with early amp models like the Gibson EH-150 that was first used with Gibson’s EH-150 lap-steel guitar and later the Charlie Christian ES-150 guitar, it then delves into the development of Fender, Vox, and Orange amps, and goes right up to the modern boutique designers like Industrial, Dr. Z, Fargen and Fuchs. Also featured are such tube amp classics as the Seymour Duncan Convertible head, ahead of its time in offering tube-switching before THD Amps existed. Other amp designers profiled include: •Carvin •Danelectro/Silvertone •Engel •Epiphone •Premier •Roland •Seymour Duncan •And many, many more! Emmy Award-winning guitarist, composer, and producer Brian Tarquin takes on the unique subject matter of the electric guitar's sidekick and partner-in-crime to create this informative and enthralling reference guide. Interviews with various amp makers as well as players, and a foreword by Michael Molenda (Guitar Player magazine), will all bring the reader closer to those glowing tubes and tones. Guitar Amplifier Encyclopedia provides an expansive education on all the best amps' every nuance, and how they each changed the history of sound! Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

(Guitar Book). Over 5,850 new and vintage individual models are identified in detail with current new or used market retail values, and many are included. 18,000+ values are included and many have been updated to reflect the current state of the vintage guitar amp marketplace, taking into consideration that large heavy amplifiers are not as popular as they used to be, and values are down. Nearly 2,000 B&W images are included in this newest edition with 3,650 available online in high res color. The "t" in the text indicates that one or more images are available for viewing directly on our website in full color for free! The revised 16-page color Photo Grading System (PGS) is included to help properly determine the condition of any amplifier the most important factor when assessing accurate value. Also included is a thorough Anatomy depicting all the individual components of an amplifier, plus an extensive Glossary that explains amplifier terminology and definitions. The Trademark Index is incorporated directly into the text with contact information for nearly all current trademarks/builders, and once again, all the current/recent boutique amp builders are listed, and many have individual model listings. Turn it up if it's too loud, you're too old!