Pete Thorn

Tone Tips: Planning Your Route

July 9, 2019

Pete Thorn

Parallel versus series routing, and how your choice impacts your effects palette.

Tone Tips: Perhaps the Most Underrated Effect Pedal?

June 12, 2019

Pete Thorn

They’re typically simple affairs, but oh what a difference treble boosters can make.

Tone Tips: Switch On, Tap Off

May 20, 2019

Pete Thorn

Just say no to expressive tap dancing—at least on or around your pedalboard.

Tone Tips: Know Your Rig, Inside and Out

April 22, 2019

Pete Thorn

If you lost your signal during a gig, would you panic and freeze or find and fix the issue with ninja-like precision?

Tone Tips: Make Your Creative Space Rock

March 24, 2019

Pete Thorn

Easy steps and tips to help open your creative floodgate in a home-studio setting—and keep it open.

Tone Tips: Keep It Quiet, Part 2

February 15, 2019

Pete Thorn

Solid advice to search and destroy those unwanted noises coming from amps, pedalboards, and wireless units.

NAMM 2019 Editors' Picks Day 2

January 25, 2019

Jason Shadrick, Shawn Hammond, Perry Bean, and Pete Thorn

Session guitarist/demo guy extraordinaire (and PG Tone Tips columnist) Pete Thorn joins us to discuss the latest gear from Ernie Ball, Alexander Pedals, Waterloo, Sound City, and more.

Tone Tips: Keep It Quiet

January 14, 2019

Pete Thorn

Looking for and alleviating the sounds you don’t want coming from your rig.

Tone Tips: Attitude Equals Impact

December 12, 2018

Pete Thorn

Phil X talks about the approach, technique, and attitude needed for standing out and getting the gig.

Tone Tips: The Powerhouse Pedalboard

November 13, 2018

Pete Thorn

Our resident tone guru offers sound hardware solutions for your pedalboard, with versatility and ease front of mind.

Tone Tips: Tweak Talk

October 14, 2018

Pete Thorn

Installing new pickups is, of course, a valid option if you’re not satisfied with a guitar’s tone, but tweaking elsewhere could get you where you want to be and save dollars.

Tone Tips: Gig Tips for the Social Media Generation

September 14, 2018

Pete Thorn

Your blistering solo is amazing, but can you play it standing up, while grooving with a band, and in front of people?

Tone Tips: Ask Doctor Pete—Seeking Clarity

August 1, 2018

Pete Thorn

Tone scientist Pete Thorn touches on subjects ranging from an EQ pedal in your effects loop to being nice to your singer.

Tone Tips: Going Wireless in 2018

July 10, 2018

Pete Thorn

With today’s affordable wireless tech, it’s time to stop trippin’ and cut the cord to gain guitar freedom.

Tone Tips: Learning to Fly Solo

June 3, 2018

Pete Thorn

With his second solo effort soon to be released, our career gun-for-hire columnist waxes poetic on the creative benefits of going it alone.

Tone Tips: Blurring Lines

May 16, 2018

Pete Thorn

Guitarists are already living in a brave new world of effects and guitar-related technology, so where is it going next?

Tone Tips: Volume, Dynamics, Guitar

April 12, 2018

Pete Thorn

Let the guitar be the instrument it was meant to be, which is not a synthesizer.

Tone Tips: Takeways from Winter NAMM 2018

March 12, 2018

Pete Thorn

Always on the lookout for the latest tone tools, Pete Thorn makes his annual pilgrimage to DisneyNAMM to find innovation is alive and well in guitar land.