Tone Tips
Tone Tips: Keep It Quiet
Looking for and alleviating the sounds you don’t want coming from your rig.
Tone Tips: Attitude Equals Impact
Phil X talks about the approach, technique, and attitude needed for standing out and getting the gig.
Tone Tips: The Powerhouse Pedalboard
Our resident tone guru offers sound hardware solutions for your pedalboard, with versatility and ease front of mind.
Tone Tips: Ask Doctor Pete—Seeking Clarity
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
With today’s affordable wireless tech, it’s time to stop trippin’ and cut the cord to gain guitar freedom.
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Tone Tips: Keep It Quiet
January 14, 2019
Looking for and alleviating the sounds you don’t want coming from your rig.
Tone Tips: Attitude Equals Impact
December 12, 2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Tone Tips: Curing Tone Issues with Practice
January 23, 2018
Practicing is a good thing, but practicing more effectively may reap rewards faster.
Tone Tips: You Have Everything You Need
December 28, 2017
Before chasing down the latest and greatest gear, take inventory of what you already have. You might be surprised where it can take you.
Tone Tips: Guitar in the Social-Media Era
December 10, 2017
Love it or hate it, tech is part of the guitar universe and here to stay, so make it work for you—not against you.
Tone Tips: Effecting the Future
November 6, 2017
Scratching the surface of an eternal question for guitarists: What is left to discover in the guitar-effect universe?
Tone Tips: Remembering Chris Cornell
October 12, 2017
A few tips and memories from our columnist’s time with his late friend and bandmate.
Tone Tips: Is Rock Guitar Eating Itself?
August 31, 2017
Rock ’n’ roll will never die, but it does take extended naps from time to time.
Tone Tips: Quick Pointers for Recording and Mixing Acoustic Guitar
July 2, 2017
You might be totally in sync with your home-recording rig, but tracking acoustic guitar presents some unique challenges and there are guidelines to follow.
Tone Tips: Is Political Correctness Neutering the Guitar?
June 14, 2017
Rock ’n’ roll is far from dead, but is it as bold and experimental as it used to be?
Tone Tips: The Company You Keep
May 18, 2017
No worn-out clichés about the power of networking here—just some sound advice on landing your next better gig or helping a friend land his or hers.
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