educational help

[spkaSS]

Hey all, I am wondering if there is a good basic, beginners book that is good at describing and defining compression, overdrive, gain, ohms, watts...when to use a pedal vs amp settings and so on.

Obviously, I am a beginner. I have a bass, a practice amp SWR LA10, a VOX headphone amp and that's it. I wanna get a bigger combo amp for when i play with others but would like to know more about all this before I jump in on an amp that doesn't end up doing this or that...
Anyway, thanks for any advice.
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[rogerb]

There are the sticky threads at the top of each forum that would have a lot of the information you may be interested in. Have a look at those. An actual book, I don't know.

This forum is more up to date and probably better than any book, the people here are great.