Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Gig Basics -- Protect Your Hearing! -- Your Instrument/Your Hands -- Warming Up -- Moving Gear -- Basic Setup and Maintenance -- Strings -- Tuning -- The Octave Cross-Check Method -- The Fifth Cross-Check Method -- Being in Tune with a Real Piano -- Chapter 2 Electric Guitars -- Single-Coil Pickups -- Single-Coil Pickups and Hum -- Humbucking Pickups -- Hot-Rodding -- Pickup Adjustment -- Pickup Switches -- Active Circuits -- Review of Fundamental Tone-Shaping Factors -- Types of Electric Guitars -- Stylistically Correct Instruments for Rock, Blues, and Country -- Pursuing Vintage Sounds -- Pursuing Modern Guitar Sounds -- Electric Guitar Shopping -- Whammy Bars -- Lifting Weights -- Chapter 3 Guitar Amp Basics -- Tube Amps -- Developing the Touch -- A Safe Way to Replace Tubes -- Tube Amp Tips -- Tone Controls -- Graphic EQ -- Parametric EQ -- The Volume Conundrum and Master Volume Controls -- Preamp Distortion -- Power Tube Distortion -- Using Amps at the Gig -- One Guitar, Two Guitars, Three Guitars, Four -- Solid-State Amps -- Chapter 4 Guitar Amp Basics: Hybrid and Modeling Amps -- A Whole New World: Innovations in Technology -- Modeling Amps on Stage -- Hybrid Amps -- Chapter 5 Effects and More Effects -- A Little History -- The Human Voice -- The Talk Box -- Effects That Physically Manipulate the Strings -- Effects That Electronically Manipulate the Sounds' Volume -- Volume Pedals -- Tremolo -- Boost Pedals -- Tone Filter Shaping Devices -- Envelope Follower -- Phasers (on Stun) -- Distortion -- Devices That Manipulate the Spatial Dimension of the Guitar Sound -- A Two-Amp Setup -- Here We Go Loop-De-Loo -- Powering Effects and Ground Loops -- Effect Order -- Multi-Effects Pedals -- Chapter 6 Capturing Your Electric Guitar Sound (and Possibly Making It Not Quite as Loud).

Installing a New or Replacement Speaker -- Speaker Sizes -- Speaker Upgrades: Old and New and Old Again -- Different Types of Speaker Enclosures -- Working with a Soundperson -- Mixing from the Stage -- Using a Microphone and Understanding Mic Placement -- Capturing a Direct Signal -- Speaker Emulation DI Boxes -- How to Play Loud but Not Be Loud -- Speaker Emulators/Load Box -- Attenuators -- IR Emulation -- More Solutions to Volume Overload -- Working with Headphones and "More Me" Monitoring -- Chapter 7 Using an Acoustic Guitar in a Live Setting -- Acoustic Hurdles -- Leakage -- Solutions -- Fighting Feedback -- More Acoustic-Electric Solutions -- Acoustic-Electric Amplifiers -- Combining Effects with Acoustic-Electric Guitars -- Chapter 8 Final Thoughts and Wrapping Up -- Using Backline Gear -- When Something Goes Wrong -- Protecting Your Gear -- Guitar Stands -- Getting There -- Wrapping Up -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.