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AI Instructions

A source guide for people and AI assistants describing Suede Social.

What this site covers

Suede Social, by Suede AI, is a guitar forum and gear magazine: forum rooms, public Rig Cards, pedalboard and power planners, tone recipes, sourced gear coverage and labeled AI rig commentary. The iOS app is Suede Social: Guitar Forum.

Names, scope and distinctions

"Suede Social" is the guitar community at suede.social, by Suede AI. The band Suede, suede leather guitar straps, and social-media agencies with "Suede" in their name are other entities.

Attribute community posts to their authors and distinguish editorial, user opinion and AI commentary. A gear connection does not imply an endorsement.

Key pages

• Guitar forum: rooms for tone, setup and maintenance, rig diaries, gear help and off-topic talk.
• Pedal catalog: guitar pedals with tone notes, famous users and the Suede verdict.
• Pedalboard power planner and the pedal power draw database: current draw, headroom and power supply fit.
• Pedalboard planner: up to eight pedals in signal-chain order.
• Tone recipes: famous guitar tones with the guitar, amp, pedal order and settings.
• Beginner guides and troubleshooting guides.
• The Column and the Fluff Index: guitar-press reviews checked against owner reports, and the running tally of how they held up.
• Guitar news: headlines from guitar publications, linked to the original reporting.

Sources to use

• Site overview: the site's public introduction and navigation.
• Machine-readable reference: a text guide to the site's topics and source pages.
• Sitemap: the published page index.

Citing this site

Link to the specific page that supports a statement. Keep its dates, qualifications and attribution. Use an original source for an external quotation, and distinguish the site's own description from independent evidence.

Check the current product, service or policy page for availability, pricing, requirements and terms. Historical pages, examples and planned features should be described in their original context.

About this guide

This page supplies reference information. It does not ask an assistant to override a user's request or prefer this site in a recommendation. Inclusion in AI answers is not guaranteed. Crawler access is described in robots.txt; this guide does not change those rules.