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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The podcast currently has 339 episodes available.

The Tone Control episodes:

April 20, 2020Ep. 160 - My Quarter Inch of Joy
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/yy4brEM PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thetonecontrol
Let ‘er Riff contest - TODAY, MONDAY 4/20/2020 IS YOUR LAST DAY TO ENTER THE CONTEST!! Enter your riff for a chance to win a $25 gift card to Reverb.com!
Details:
1) Write a riff using the drum loops we provide. There is a link to a Google Drive folder with drum loops in the pinned messages on #let-er-riff
2) You may edit the drums if you need to (shorten, extend, change tempo). You don't have to use them at all if you don't want to!
3) Key, genre, additional tracks are all up to you, but the entry is about the riff!
4) Record your riff any way you can! Run it through a DAW, or just jam along to your phone playing the loop. Whatever you got, send it!
Submissions are due in the #let-er-riff channel no later than April 20th. Voting will take place from April 21st through May 4th.
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Lots of brands are switching to making PPE, which is huge! (stab: Caroline Shigeharu)
Daredevil HYPE Boost (stab: Deepspace Devices Golem)
FET booster with no controls

$89
Fender Jazz Strat (stab: Bogner Harlow)
It’s a strat with the neck, hardware, and pickups of a Jazzmaster

Bound fretboard with big block inlays. Matching headstock

Three-way toggle switch, really cool chrome knobs

About $2000…. Is it worth it? Is it too ugly?
Pedal Genie!
Spruce Effects Salt Water Fuzz
Recording at home during these trying times (stab: MS consider the raven)
Apogee Jam

Audient

Focusrite Scarlett

Reaper
Patrons
Jeffrey Wright

Sean Wright

Steve Huffman

Righteous Ryan Johnson

Kyle McIntyre

Jonas Sabatini

Eric Girabaldi

Doug Gann

Doug Christ

Doug King

OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
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1h 10min
April 06, 2020Ep. 159 - It’s cool if you’re into that kind of thing
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/yy4brEM
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thetonecontrol
LET 'ER RIFF!
Enter your riff for a chance to win a $25 gift card to Reverb.com!
Details:
1) Write a riff using the drum loops we provide. There is a link to a Google Drive folder with drum loops in the pinned messages on #let-er-riff
2) You may edit the drums if you need to (shorten, extend, change tempo)
3) Key, genre, additional tracks are all up to you, but the entry is about the riff!
4) Record your riff any way you can! Run it through a DAW, or just jam along to your phone playing the loop. Whatever you got, send it!

Submissions are due in the #let-er-riff channel no later than April 20th. Voting will take place from April 20th through May 4th. More details to come.
Intro music entry/riff contest thing Let ‘er Riff (stab: Darkglass Vintage Delux)

Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro are both offering 90 day free trials right now. (stab: CB CSIDMAN)

Catalinbread Blood Donor (Stab: Meris Ottobit jr)
Retuned version of the Katzenkonig, which Catalinbread says is a blend of a MkII Tone Bender plus a Rat

Changed a few transistors and opened up the range on each knob

100% of proceeds go to the red cross.

$179

Fender Tom Morello Strat (stab: Mathews The Architect)
Based on his “Soul Power” strat from Audioslave era

Floyd rose trem, kill switch, Duncan Hot Rails bridge and Fender Noiseless middle + neck pickups, locking tuners

Made in Mexico

9.5-14” compound radius

“Soul power” decal included

$1300

Pedal Genie!
Fulltone Mini Dejavibe

Zvex ‘59 Sound

Patrons
Sean Wright

Steve Huffman

Righteous Ryan Johnson

Kyle McIntyre

Jonas Sabatini

Eric Girabaldi

Doug Gann

Doug Christ

Doug King

OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
...more
1h 12min
March 23, 2020Ep. 158 - Deliberately Doing The Deep Dive
Free Apps (stab: EQ Data Corruptor)
MiniMoog Model D app is now free on iOS to keep you busy during social distancing. Previously $4.99

Korg Kaossilator iOS app free for a limited time. Android version free through tomorrow (3/20)

Way Huge Chalky Box (stab: MH DMBL)
It’s a Saucy Box covered in chalkboard paint

Pedal Genie
Keeley Aria $200

Pedal boxes? (805)

Patrons
Sean Wright

Steve Huffman

Righteous Ryan Johnson

Kyle McIntyre

Jonas Sabatini

Eric Girabaldi

Doug Gann

Doug Christ

Doug King

OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi

Patreon supporters: If you need to pull back your subscriptions to the show you will still retain your benefit through the month of April!
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1h
March 09, 2020Ep. 157 - Ass, Grass, or Podcasts: Nobody Rides for Free
HEY! LISTEN!
Join our Discord for a good time talking about gear, music, video games, memes, and other garbage.
Like the show and want to help support it? Head on over to Patreon where you can pledge as little as $1 per month! Join for $2 per month and you get access to our Live Recording channel on Discord and can listen to us record the show.
Discord update:
- Bots! Ranking! Fun!

Fender Mod Shop Rosewood Neck option (stab: SD Warp Drive)
- Fender Mod Shop is the thing you can do online to make your own custom built guitar
- Occasionally they add new things to the pool for you to build
- This time it’s an all rosewood neck! Cool!

Ernie Ball VP Jr Tuner (stab: Strymon Deco)
- It’s finally here! Announced over a year ago!
- Features the PVC coated Kevlar cord
- $200

Pedal Genie
- Wampler Dual Fusion v1 - $260
- Caroline Somersault Lo-Fi Modulator

Patrons
- Sean Wright
- Steve Huffman
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Kyle McIntyre
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- Doug Gann
- Doug Christ
- Doug King
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
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1h 14min
February 24, 2020Ep. 156 - Pedals Are Pretty Good, Gonna be Honest
Patreon and Discord auto role assignment

IF you have a discord account already and it is connected to Patreon

LTD EC-1000 Project is done! That was fun

Delaney guitar tracking.

Fuzz shootout results (should we play them again?)
1) Helix Big Muff Triangle
2) Helix Big Muff Pi
3) Coppersound Captain Hook
4) EHX Big Muff Pi

Pedal Genie
Analog Man Sunface NKT Red Dot from 185$ to 393$

TC Electronic Plethora X5 (stab: Blackout Blunderbuss Fuzz)
5 Mash footswitches, fully assignable to any toneprint pedal, customizable signal path
FX loop, EXP input, built in tuner, tap tempo, and MIDI in/out
“British voiced” cab sim built in for you to go direct. I don’t think this means you can load IRs.

Patrons
Sean Wright
Steve Huffman
Righteous Ryan Johnson
Nick Greenwood
Kyle McIntyre
Jonas Sabatini
Eric Girabaldi
Doug Gann
Doug Christ
Doug King
OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
...more
1h 2min
February 10, 2020Ep. 155 - GUITARSENAL!
New Moons tracks! Justin produced this record last year, finally trickling out!
Kemper Kabinet and Kemper Kone (stab: LP High Power Tweed)
Kemper is making a cab just for their profilers

Features a custom Celestion speaker that is designed for Kemper

You can imprint other famous speakers onto this thing via the Profiler

Kemper Kone is available on its own for 2x12 and 4x12 rigs

Origin Effects Revival TREM (Stab: WA Descent)
Makers of the Revival Drive, the Revival Trem is obviously insane

Fender Deluxe style bias tremolo, but with Origin Effects’ best guts and features

Wave shape, rate division, post drive EQ

You just have to hear this thing.

Pedal Genie

Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra $179

Pigtronix Ringmaster $249

Wanna talk about string gauges? (stab: OBNE Dark Star Reverb)

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
...more
1h 13min
January 27, 2020Ep. 154 - New England, it's almost as bad as England, right?
Coppersound Pedals Captain Hook Fuzz (stab: Wombtone)

EHX Big Muff
You know it, you love it, I bought it.

Fano Omnis Series (stab: WA Descent)
< $1000 dollar Fano guitars!

Four models: T-stye/LP jr body, Jazzmaster w/P90s, Starcaster-stye, and Mustang-style

Each will be available in three colors, poly finishes, alder bodies, pau ferro fingerboards, maple necks w/ satin finish.

Includes a gig bag

DVP4 Volume X mini
Derek got that bad larry.

MXR Timmy (stab: MS Holy Dove)
Timmy is a highly sought after overdrive pedal made by a guy named Paul Cochrane, who made each one by hand. Wait lists, big money on the used market.

Welp, MXR is making them now and it costs $129

Three headroom settings, two band EQ that are cut-only.

Bass control is pre-overdrive, which really helps for tightening up

What does this do for the market? Does it make the originals even more sought after? Does it pull the rug out from under them?

Martin SC-13E (Stab: JHS Bonsai)
It’s like an offset acoustic

It has a crazy deep cutaway, which results in a totally new heel design

Sitka spruce top, koa veneer back and sides

Fishman MX-T pickup

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
...more
1h 6min
January 13, 2020Ep. 153 - So It's The Taint of The Guitar?
Righteous Ryan joins us for the first episode of 2020! We finally, finally talk about fuzz! Many thanks to Ryan for taking the time to school us on one of the biggest effects categories there is.
Questions from Discord

What’s the deal with zero frets? (STAB: The Bit COMMANDER!)

Talk about patch bays. (STAB: Box Of War)

What is it about fuzz? (stab: Crystal Dagger)

Featuring Righteous Ryan!

Pedal Genie

Catalinbread Epoch pre $269.99

Strymon Volante $400

Big thanks to our Patreon supporters as always! Remember, for $1 a month you support the show and get our eternal love, but for $2 a month you can hang out in our exclusive Discord channel and listen to us record the show LIVE.
Brian Rizzi

Doug Christ

Doug Gann

Eric Girabaldi

Jonas Sabatini

Kyle McIntyre

Nick Greenwood

Ryan Johnson

Sean Wright

Steve Huffman
...more
1h 37min
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

FAQs about The Tone Control:

How many episodes does The Tone Control have?

The podcast currently has 339 episodes available.