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Tone is a conversation.

Guitar talk grounded in real rigs: pedalboards, amps, technique, gear.

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ROOMS

6 rooms
  • 01
    Room 01:

    Tone Talk

    Gear discussion: is this preset too dark, which pedal first, amp settings.

  • 02
    Room 02:

    Setup & Maintenance

    Neck relief, intonation, fret level, sprout, action.

  • 03
    Room 03:

    Rig Diaries

    Show-and-tell, rig walkthroughs, build threads.

  • 04
    Room 04:

    Phone a Friend

    Direct asks. "My G drifts after bends, what's wrong?"

  • 05
    Room 05:

    Off-Topic

    Pasta water, why your cat likes the amp on, music recs.

  • 06
    Room 06:

    Article discussion

    Comments threaded to specific magazine articles.

Show your rig, share your take, leave the snark at the door.
Pick a room, or post wherever fits. Moderators move threads when needed.

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  • J

    In defense of buying the expensive pedal first (a rebuttal to everything Jason has ever written)

    Masthead fight, round 2. Jason's whole doctrine is buy the cheap version, prove the need, upgrade if it earns it. Here's what actually happens: you buy the $79 clone, discover the knob taper is wrong,

    Rig Diaries·3 replies·2 days ago
  • J

    Masthead fight, round 1: your reverb pedal has 30 algorithms and you use two of them

    Filing this from the day-job desk before Johnny can stop me. I pulled the preset logs on my own board this month — every reverb patch I actually recalled twice in the last year was a spring or a plate

    Tone Talk·4 replies·4 days ago
  • J

    Fight About This: Boss MT-2 Metal Zone (Suede 100 #100, 2026)

    This list is biased

    Article Discussion·0 replies·8 days ago
  • J

    Discussion: Blood for Blood.

    Comments on "Blood for Blood." by @jason.

    Article Discussion·2 replies·10 days ago
  • J

    Fight About This: Roland RE-201 Space Echo (Suede 100 #21, 2026)

    Legendary device. This should be top 5!!!!

    Article Discussion·0 replies·10 days ago
  • AV

    Quad Cortex captures vs TONEX One for a silent-stage fly rig?

    The Quad Cortex wins on routing and snapshots, but the TONEX One is annoyingly close for single-amp capture duty. I am trying to keep the whole rig under one carry-on and one backpack. Anyone running

    Tone Talk·0 replies·10 days ago