Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone

Brian and Richard are back for episode 641 of Chasing Tone - A vintage Marshall steals Brian’s heart, Richard’s fuzz hits the big stage, and stop getting Wampler wrong!
Brian’s George Metropoulos-modded 1974 Marshall JMP has arrived, and he’s so smitten he’s threatening to quit the pedal business. Not really - but it has shaken him and he has consumed his body weight in hotdogs to cope. The guys wonder why battered, well-worn gear suddenly looks better than anything shiny and new, and Brian admits to a burning itch involving Marshall-style circuits.
The Purple Ohm Fuzz did its thing on stage with the Boomtown Rats, right alongside a pair of Wampler pedals, and it has led to a new bucket list item. Meanwhile, Richard’s new DigiTech Drop, an out-of-tune “Basket Case,” and an under-rehearsed “Everlong” left him ready to hang up his guitar for good.
There’s plenty more too. Brian picks up a Reverend Drivetrain and loads PedalSpice with a library of classic pedal schematics. The guys dig into vibe-coded games, Suno’s new tricks, and neural models built on Brian’s pedals. They also ask whether tonewoods really matter and why Fuzz Faces hog so much pedalboard space.
Hot Dogs, Solar-powered Plexis, Magnetic flake paint, Nintendo cartridge pedals, Evertune bridges, Prototypes that never come home, and a black Turbo Tuner - it’s all in this week’s Chasing Tone!
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Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for episode 640 of Chasing Tone - A neon green tone machine, Brian gets a new amp, and Josh Scott sells pedals!
PRS has just released the Tekton range, and the guys can’t look away. There are Floyd Rose-equipped models, seven-stringed behemoths, silky satin necks and finishes that make Brian feel all warm and fuzzy. Richard explains how a Silver Sky SE, a Whammy pedal, and a capo became his one-guitar answer to his band’s endless tuning changes.
The Purple Ohm Fuzz has landed with Brian and Blake, and Richard wants the honest verdict. Brian suggests the pipe-smoking guy on the box should smoke something different on every version. Meanwhile, PedalSpice moves to a buy-once, own-forever model, and somehow Revenge of the Mutant Camels is involved.
There’s plenty more too. Richard has finished listening to his UFO audiobook and the stories blew his mind. Brian has a George Metropoulos-rebuilt Marshall JMP on the way. The guys also mark the closure of Steve’s Music in Toronto with the story of a Les Paul.
Wedding Bells, Chicken in a can, Goats are strange, Richard’s 1986 diary, Glow-in-the-dark picks, the Chipmunks, and a mysterious 1967 offset - it’s all in this week’s Chasing Tone!
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Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for Episode 639 of the Chasing Tone Podcast - Two dimensional pedals, UFO revelations, and Blake visits "the Secret Room"
Richard is four chapters into a new book about UFOs written by a friend of the show and he’s hooked. Decades in the US military, the government’s UAP programs, Skinwalker Ranch and Project Blue Book all get a mention. Coincidentally, JHS has just dropped The Wanderer, a UFO-themed two-in-one pedal pairing Klon and Bluesbreaker-style circuits. Insert X-files riff here.  
Blake takes us on a whistle-stop tour of Seattle’s independent guitar stores with his son riding shotgun. He is allowed into a magical place and takes a huge financial risk by juggling an expensive guitar or two in his beef-laden hands. Brian’s Way Huge pedal haul arrives but one of them got shipped by a music store in little more than a book mailer and he was lucky not to have mistaken it for a sandwich. 
Richard’s confesses a teenage DS-2 obsession and Brian launches his 60-second circuit breakdowns for musicians rather than engineers. He also teases a PedalSpice feature that could bring old hand-drawn schematics back to life. Richard falls for new band Mary in the Junkyard, and Blake explains why most people don’t actually want 50s wiring in their guitar.
Behringer’s mini Klon, a 10-string BC Rich, Russian doll pedal packaging, a black pudding drawing, hidden messages in schematics, the Amiga’s first virus, and fluted knobs that sound rude - it’s all in this week’s Chasing Tone!
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It's just the two of us this week as Brian and Richard hold the fort without Blake for episode 638 of Chasing Tone - Two is the magic number for dumbness, Brian has a Fat Sandwich, and drunk testing the PedalHead
Brian lifts the lid on PedalSpice, the browser-based circuit simulator he's wanted to build for years. Slider-driven calculators spit out component values in seconds, saved circuit blocks drop straight into new designs, and neural amp models let you hear your circuit through a real amp before you've warmed up a soldering iron. Richard takes it for a spin, pitches a rival product called "Pedal Salt," and the guys get candid about building software with AI and why good results still take hard graft. And make your brain bleed. So. much. bleeding.
Meanwhile, Richard has found a deeply suspicious internet list of the top 10 reasons to move to Indiana. Gas stations with gum, cities with friendly names like Gary, a state supposedly named after a dog - Brian sets the record straight. Then Brian confesses to a Reverb spree on Way Huge pedals and goes digging for the schematic of the discontinued Fat Sandwich live on air. 
Richard invents the thermic distortion drive. Stu Mac teams up with Scotti Hill of Skid Row on a Rangemaster-style boost kit, prompting a live investigation into a mystery chip. Brian has been trying to destroy the new PedalHead. 
Jim Unnay, Gibson's new Ghostburst, Keeley's new germanium pedal, YouTube drama fatigue, a candy parcel reduced to glittery dust, too many tunings - it's all in this week's Chasing Tone!
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Courses and DIY mods:
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https://www.betterguitartone.com
https://www.wamplerdiy.com

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Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for Episode 637 of the Chasing Tone Podcast - The worst time to start a pedal company, a Guitar Summit gear haul, and Fender cancels hum
Could you realistically start a pedal company and clear $50k in your first year? A Reddit thread and a 60 Cycle Hum livestream posed the question, and the guys have thoughts. Short version: this might be the worst possible moment to launch, but it doesn't matter if you love guitar gear. Speaking of falling in love with gear, Blake shows off a gorgeous player-worn 1965 Fender Mustang in Daphne Blue, and Richard gets genuinely misty-eyed over a 1992 Zoom 9002 ad that made him feel fifteen again.
Then it's a proper Guitar Summit gear haul from Mannheim. Top of the pile is the Wampler Pedalhead, now tweaked and sounding mighty fine, alongside the upcoming Tone King Royce. The Boss EX-4 FX Expander gets the guys excited as a clever sidecar for small rigs - four effects at once, slow gear and slicer included - while the Two Notes Torpedo Captor X Pro is basically a Captor X thats been training with Arnie as it is pumped. There's also a jaw-dropping demo room that ping-pongs between sixteen heads and sixteen cabs at the flick of a switch - which Brian now needs in his life.
Fender has announced it's "solved" single-coil hum with a secret metal plate under the pickguard - which, the guys note, looks an awful lot like a dummy coil that's been around for years (a humbucker plus twenty percent, as Blake puts it). Brian makes  a heartfelt pitch for a full retro mode on the Wampler website, complete with visitor counter and dancing baby Gifs.
Knobless pedals, a skunk that smells like a Willie Nelson concert, missing out on both Google and Bitcoin, the BlackBerry movie, and Brian defending America's spelling one Reddit comment at a time...it's all in this week's Chasing Tone!
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Courses and DIY mods:
https://www.guitarpedalcourse.com
https://www.bluesguitarmethod.com
https://www.betterguitartone.com
https://www.wamplerdiy.com

Check out Oliver Effects:
https://oliverfx.co.uk
Youtube:
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