The Tone Control

By The Tone Control

The Tone Control is a sometimes side-eyed look at the guitar world and making music! We talk about everything good, bad, smart, stupid, and weird about guitar gear and bring it to you every other Mond... more

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How many episodes does The Tone Control have?

The podcast currently has 331 episodes available.

The Tone Control episodes:

December 30, 2019Ep. 152 - A Brigade of Old People
Happy holidays and new year everyone; thanks for listening!
THANK YOU to our Patrons!
Sean Wright

Steve Huffman

Righteous Ryan Johnson

Nick Greenwood

Kyle McIntyre

Jonas Sabatini

Eric Girabaldi

Doug Gann

Doug Christ

OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/yy4brEM
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thetonecontrol
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2h 25min
December 16, 2019Ep. 151 - Hitting Your Big Thumpys With Your Thwappy Whackys
Holiday schedule update

Minim by Old Blood Noise Endeavors - $229 (stab: Longamp Time Machine)
Features delay, reverb, and reverse sounds

This is an extension of their limited run Rever, which was designed in conjunction with Datachoir. Minim will be production run.

Moduled delay up to 400ms and almost infinite repeats

Reverb has harmonic tremolo inside!

“Order” switch lets you move the reverse section either before or after the delay+reverb sound

Reverb sound is always fed into the delay, which always has a slight chorusing on the repeats

Pedal Genie
Mini by Smallsound/Bigsound $159

Empress ZOIA $499

People want us to talk about fuzz

Huge thanks to our Patreon supporters! Don't forget that joining our Discord server is free and open to all!
Sean Wright

Steve Huffman

Righteous Ryan Johnson

Nick Greenwood

Kyle McIntyre

Jonas Sabatini

Eric Girabaldi

Doug Gann

Doug Christ

OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
...more
1h 8min
December 02, 2019Ep. 150 - Don't Give It Infinity Ohms
Coppersound Pedals Captain Hook Octave Fuzz and Boost (stab: Walrus Descent)
Octavia style fuzz with a boost built in

Features a JFET boost at the input stage of the fuzz to really slam it

Like the Foxcatcher, Coppersound’s Gravity Bomb boost is built in with a switchable order.

Runs on 9-18V

Controls for Volume, Bite, Fuzz, and Boost.

Limited to 70 units for Black Friday, so probably gone by the time you hear this. RIP.

Pedal Genie

Hungry Robot Borderland Lite

Question from Jonas: (stab: Jrockett WTF Fuzz)
What is the benefit of separating your signal to run either into the front of your amp (pre-amp) and then clicking to a preamp pedal for a different tone into the effects return... Vs. preamp pedal into the front of your amp.

Huge thanks as always to our Patrons!
Steve Huffman

Righteous Ryan Johnson

Nick Greenwood

Kyle McIntyre

Jonas Sabatini

Eric Girabaldi

Doug Gann

Doug Christ

OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
...more
1h 5min
November 18, 2019Ep. 149 - They Should Call This Color Ashtray Glass
Question from Doug Gann on Discord: “Phantom power! What the fuck is it? When do I use it? When do I not use it? How do I know? (stab: Aguilar Octamizer)

Small builder from Righteous Ryan - DEMEDASH EFFECTS (stab: Kilobyte Delay)
Made in Canada by Steve Demedash.

Steve currently makes 2 pedals: the T-120 Videotape Echo and the 112+ Drive Channel

T-120
Inspired by the garbled audio that comes from cruddy, worn out VHS tapes.

It sounds extremely good. Like, this is more than just a modulated delay.

Controls for time, echo, intensity, depth, speed, and tape quality

It’s available in a standard and a deluxe version. Deluxe has soft switching, echo trails, full wet to full dry mix, self oscillation switch, stereo out via TRS

112+ Drive Channel
Schecter guitars wanted to trade him a guitar of his choice for some pedals so he designed an overdrive pedal for the trade

Internal chargepump is boosting it up to 34V!

Features a JFET preamp, a voice control that sets how much bass is passed through to the drive section.

Drive section is big a wide, can get clippy and fuzzy. Signal is reamplified after the drive then goes to 3band active EQ (boost/cut)

Sounds really nice. Can get splattery, but also has a nice crisp jangle to it.

Pedal Genie
Sick As overdrive $229

Boss RV-500 $350

Fender Ultra Series (stab: Bogner Oxford)
New top of the line flagship models. American made, premium parts. Replacing the American Elite series

All have noiseless pickups, new neck heel contours, faster playing necks w/ satin finish and 10-14” compound radius. Locking tuners on guitars

Strats are back to 2 point trem w/ milled steel saddles

HSS and SSS strat. Tele, 4 and 5 string jazz bass, P bass w/ j/P pickups

Thanks to the Patrons!
Steve Huffman

Righteous Ryan Johnson

Nick Greenwood

Kyle McIntyre

Jonas Sabatini

Eric Girabaldi

Doug Gann

Doug Christ

OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
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1h 17min
November 04, 2019Ep. 148 - They're Spamming The Chat With Butts!
Discord and Patreon!
Huge thanks to our Patrons!
Steve Huffman

Righteous Ryan Johnson

Nick Greenwood

Kyle McIntyre

Jonas Sabatini

Eric Girabaldi

Doug Gann

Doug Christ

OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
Listen to that new Jimmy Eat World record! (stab: Dirty LIttle Secret)

Shot out and congratulations to The Tone Jerks on their 100th episode! (chicka)

A quick follow up questions from Instagram: (stab: Strymon El Cap)
“Derek, did you ever solve the iPhone headphone jack problem?”

Steve’s quintessential Tone Control episode (stab: WA Jupiter Fuzz)

Universal Audio (stab: Angry Ape)

Maxon 40th Anniversary OD808 (stab: Alexander Amnesia)
Originally released in 1979
Maxon 808 circuit was later licensed by Ibanzed to make the Tubescreamer
The anniversary edition is modded by Robert Keely!
“Max-gain” knob for increased gain, output, and low end response.
400 units worldwide, the first 40 of which will be signed by Robert Keely

Pedal Genie
Walrus Audio Lillian 199$

Strymon Iridium (stab: JHS Bonsai)
Amp and IR Cab in a pedal
Three amps: Fender Deluxe Reverb, Vox AC30, Marshall Plexi Superlead
9 included cabinets, option to load your own IRs, headphone output on the front makes for easy home use.
This is smart because it moves amp and cab modeling into a pedal size
$400, but it’s probably easier to get a grip on than something like an HX stomp for a lot of people
Thank you again to all of our patrons for supporting us! We're really overwhelmed by the response and we're so glad you're here.
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1h 13min
October 21, 2019Ep. 147 - Three Quick Clicks and Two Short Clicks
JOIN OUR DISCORD!
BECOME A PATRON ON PATREON!
BIG NEWS: The Tone Control has started a PATREON page! For $1 a month you get our undying love and thanks for helping to keep the show going. For $2 a month you can listen to us record the show LIVE on Discord. OH YEAH, WE'RE ON DISCORD.
The Discord is free and open to all listeners of the podcast. On Discord you'll be able to chat with other listeners as well as Justin and Derek, ask questions to be featured on the show, and if you're a $2 Patron, listen to the live recording of the podcast.
EPISODE 147 SHOW NOTES:
Update on using HX Stomp in a live band setting
Power supply shopping. Strymon Ojai, Cioks DC7, something else?

Boss DD-3T and DD-8 (stab: OBNE Haunt Fuzz)
DD-8
Picks up where DD-7 left off

Stereo in/out, tempo/expression in, built in tap tempo

11 modes! Analog bucket brigade, standard digital delay, tape, warm, reverse, digital delay + reverb, shimmer, modulated delay, warp (holding the footswitch allows for increase in feedback/level), GLT (glitch. Kind of like a tremolo or a delay sample/repeat, no decay. Expression can control rate/pitch)

Looper holds up to 40seconds mono, 20 seconds stereo

Trails on/off

DD-3T
DD-3 has been updated to have a tap tempo, direct output jack got moved to the output side of the pedal

More traditional digital delay pedal from Boss. Short, medium, long settings.

Pedal Genie
Eventide H9 $500
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1h 16min
October 07, 2019Ep. 146 - Get Your Buffers in Order
We're blasting through the questions from last time!
Cheap vs. Expensive pedals?

Will the pedal craze die down soon? Has it already? Do we need more?

What popular piece of gear just didn't do the trick for you?

Offset Fender issues; mostly the bridge. Discuss. (note: get a Mastery!)

What's in Justin's studio?
Hit us up with questions ANYTIME on our website, Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter! Lastly, if you're listening on Anchor, you can leave us a voicemail with a question that we can pop in the show!
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1h 17min
September 23, 2019Ep 145 - That Sweet, Sweet Charlie Brown Ass
Fender Certified Vintage Reverb shop (Stab: Fairfield Unpleasant Surprise)
These guitars are from Fender’s vintage vault and are reference guitars for custom shop builds and product lineups

5 strats currently up for sale: ‘54 2-tone burst, ‘57 2-tone burst, ‘65 lake placid blue, ‘65 3-tone burst, ‘65 candy apple red.

These are Meticulously reviewed by the Fender custom shop to confirm they are all original

2-year warranty, any service required will be handled by the Fender custom shop

Hand delivered by Fender master builders

Includes original cases and case candy like cables, straps, bills of sale, bridge covers, etc

Pedal Genie
JHS Charlie Brown V4

Bogner Oxford Fuzz

FAN QUESTIONS!
What's the deal with cables?
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1h 14min
September 09, 2019Ep. 144 - It’s Like a Lightning Bolt Diddlin’ on a Pickup
Revv D20 (stab: Walrus Audio Descent)
All tube head with Two Notes reactive load and virtual cabs built in

2 6V6, 1 12AX7, switchable from 20 down to 4 watts

Reactive Load automatically engages when speaker is not connected

Front panel: Gain w/ pull boost, 3 band EQ, volume, headphone out, 6 virtual cabs accessible on the front, or 128 via MIDI

Back panel: Built in FX loop, 4/8 Ohm cab out, ground lift, bias terminals

CITES lifts rosewood ban for musical instruments (Stab: Keeley 1964x)
After about two years of rosewood being banned from crossing international borders, the CITES committee is lifting the ban “on all “finished” instruments with rosewood”

It wasn’t impossible before, but it was a major hassle and lots of paperwork and red tape were involved.

Pedal Genie
Gamechanger Audio Plasma Pedal

Should we include a discussion topic or just news?
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1h 14min
August 26, 2019Ep. 143 - Either I Don’t Know, or Yes
Went to see friend-of-the-show Eric play at Pipedream Brewing!

TC Electronic Fashback 2 X4 Delay (stab: OBNE Haunt Fuzz)
Same form factor as before, but now has 3 MASH switches which are pressure sensitive.
This lets you hold 2 sounds per bank and hard-press the pedal to switch between them

10 delay sounds plus 6 tone print slots (previously 4)

Subdivision knob with 11 different tempo settings

40 second looper

Mini toggles on the back for true/buffered bypass, and kill dry on/off

Stereo in/out, MIDI, USB, Expression in

$249

Birthday Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZM2yLiZJL0

MOOER Tone Capture GTR (stab: Meris Mercury 7 Reverb)
Makes your guitar sound like other guitars *pretty* well

Record a target guitar (strat in the example), then record the same passage with a source guitar (les paul), it does some quick math and black magic, and boom, your LP sounds like a Strat.

Holds 7 sounds

Can work as a basic EQ pedal if not using a sound clone

True or buffered bypass

Price TBD, but MOOER tends to be pretty affordable

Pedal Genie
Catalinbread Adineko. $210

Analogman Prince of Tone $148

Origin Effects Revival Drive Compact $385 (stab: LWA Plague Rate)
Y’all remember the Revival Drive? This is a more affordable (read: still expensive) version

Can be used into a flat response power amp as shown in the demo video

Insane control over amp-type parameters, but in a more standard pedal size.
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1h 16min

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How many episodes does The Tone Control have?

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