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In our monthly Tone Tips blog, L.A.-based guitarist Peter Thorn shares his wealth of real-world knowledge by offering up useful gear and tone advice for both aspiring road dogs and studio cats.
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Tone Tips: Planning Your Route
July 9, 2019
Parallel versus series routing, and how your choice impacts your effects palette.
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Tone Tips: Perhaps the Most Underrated Effect Pedal?
June 12, 2019
They’re typically simple affairs, but oh what a difference treble boosters can make.
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Tone Tips: Switch On, Tap Off
May 20, 2019
Just say no to expressive tap dancing—at least on or around your pedalboard.
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Tone Tips: Know Your Rig, Inside and Out
April 22, 2019
If you lost your signal during a gig, would you panic and freeze or find and fix the issue with ninja-like precision?
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Tone Tips: Make Your Creative Space Rock
March 24, 2019
Easy steps and tips to help open your creative floodgate in a home-studio setting—and keep it open.
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Tone Tips: Keep It Quiet, Part 2
February 15, 2019
Solid advice to search and destroy those unwanted noises coming from amps, pedalboards, and wireless units.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Tone Tips: Volume, Dynamics, Guitar
April 12, 2018
Let the guitar be the instrument it was meant to be, which is not a synthesizer.
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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.
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Tone Tips: Curing Tone Issues with Practice
January 23, 2018
Practicing is a good thing, but practicing more effectively may reap rewards faster.
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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.
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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.
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