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Guitar talk grounded in real rigs: pedalboards, amps, technique, gear.
Tone Talk
Gear discussion: is this preset too dark, which pedal first, amp settings.
Setup & Maintenance
Neck relief, intonation, fret level, sprout, action.
Rig Diaries
Show-and-tell, rig walkthroughs, build threads.
Phone a Friend
Direct asks. "My G drifts after bends, what's wrong?"
Off-Topic
Pasta water, why your cat likes the amp on, music recs.
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.
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,
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
Fight About This: Boss MT-2 Metal Zone (Suede 100 #100, 2026)
This list is biased
Discussion: Blood for Blood.
Comments on "Blood for Blood." by @jason.
Fight About This: Roland RE-201 Space Echo (Suede 100 #21, 2026)
Legendary device. This should be top 5!!!!
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