Best Guitar Effects Pedals for Electric & Acoustic - Distortion, Delay, Reverb & More | Professional Sound Enhancement for Live Performances & Studio Recording

I am an experienced acoustic and classical quitar player who has always owned an electric guitar (tele) and a nice amp (Rivera R11255) but never really figured out how to get the kind of tone I like out of the instruments. (I need lessons and more practice time as well, but that's another story.) I was looking for a book + CD that would help me figure out what pedals to buy and why (I was always told that you had to have some pedals if you are going to play electric.)This book + CD delivers the goods. Hunter gives tons of information on how and why guitar effects are used, their history, loads of data on classic, popular, and even obscure specific boxes. He tells you what some of your heros actually use to get their tone.Best of all, you can hear the sound on the CD -- this is absolutely key. There is no universally understood way to describe sounds in words: you have to hear them. Hunter provides nice sequences of licks, appropriate for each kind of box, and plays the same sequence for each box in a category of box (say, tube screamers, or chorus -- he plays the exact same sequence for each chorus box). That way, you get an apples-to-apples comparison of the sounds of different choices. It's great. The sound clips run from about 0:30 to around 1:20, plenty of time and licks to get the sound in your head. He doesn't demo every box on the CD (92 tracks) but very many and pretty much all the ones you're going to be wondering about.I can't imagine a better tool for the beginner or intermediate player, looking to spend their money wisely on stomp boxes.My eventual choices:Visual Sound Route 66 American OverdriveProco RatFuzz FaceBoss Digital Delay DD-6Boss Chorus