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- Ep. 177 - Pendleton Buttlord
We’re giving away a $50 gift card to Stringjoy.com! Follow us on Instagram @TheToneControl and reshare the post with #ControlYourTone to enter to win! If you’re in Discord you get a second entry automatically so join the server today!
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every-other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
Derek got a Walrus Audio Ages(stab: Seafoam)
- Santa Fe edition
- A gift from my mom! Thanks mom!
The Gig Rig G3 and G3 Atom (Stab: LP High Power Tweed)
- The king of rig switching systems
- 12 passive true bypass effects loops with true stereo delay trails and spillover
- Programmable pre-gain and post-gain on every preset can be used to buffer, attenuate, or boost the input into your effects.
- 2 separate outputs with phase reversal to eliminate ground hum or phase issues between amps
- 99 banks with 28 presets per bank.
- Bluetooth enabled for software updates, system backups, setlist editing, and more.
- Optical footswitches. No mechanical switch to break.
- Midi in/out. Each preset can send up to 15 separate mappable PC and CC messages as well as 2 expression inputs for real time CC control
- Parallel and wet/dry rig support No external device needed
- TFT LCD Display
- 1095 GBP, ~ $1460.
Pedal Genie
- ...Well… Here’s the deal. Empress Zoia, again.
Boss TB-2W Tone Bender (stab: Mesa Throttle Box)
- Boss and Sola Sound are partnering to make the Tone Bender MKII Waza Craft edition
- They pretty much nailed the look
- Limited edition due to availability of rare germanium transistors “carefully tested for optimum tone”
- 3-way voltage selector for 7, 9, or 12v
- True or buffered bypass switch
- Coming in Q2 2021
BIG thank you to our Patreon Supporters!
- Andrew Walsh
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
1 hr 7 min - Ep. 176 - Locally sourced, organic, artisanal butt.
We’re giving away a $50 gift card to Stringjoy.com! Follow us on Instagram @TheToneControl and reshare the post with #ControlYourTone to enter to win! If you’re in Discord you get a second entry automatically so join the server today!
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every-other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
Q&A
- From Jeffrey Wright
- How bout cold weather guitar storage and maintenance? I just moved to New Hampshire from California and surprise, it's cold.
- From Jamie Evans:
- Most favorite/least favorite genres of music
- How have you guys been coping with not playing "live"?
- Do you feel like you are maintaining your musical skill sets during the end times?
- How did the butt gif thing even start, I mean really.
- When will I be able to purchase TheToneControl merch?
- Favorite type of effect (mod, delay, drive etc)
- Favorite style of guitar and/or pickups
- Do you treat guitar and all of its surrounding ecosphere as a hobby, a passion, a profession, or a mixture of all of the above?
- Did you guys think the Podcast and its community would get to this current point?
- Related to the previous question, what plans/goals do you have for going forward?
- From Eric Giribaldi:
- If not guitar, what instrument would you play and why? (do you play other instruments/what other instrument would you want to play?)
- What are your must-watch youtube channels, music or otherwise
- Favorite SNL skit
- Candlepin or 10 pin bowling
- 8 or 9 ball
- Fav taco bell menu item
- Fav metallica album
- Fav episode of Friends
- One overdrive, one distortion, one fuzz, that’s all you get. Make it count.
- BIG thank you to our Patreon Supporters!
- Andrew Walsh
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
1 hr 22 min - From Jeffrey Wright
- Ep. 175 - Free Form Jazz: The Podcast (Feat. Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX!)
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every-other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
- Featuring Sean from Lollygagger FX! (Analog Man Sun Face)
- Kemper Profiler Update brings overdrive pedals into the platform (stab: Mayflower)
- The Kemper profiler launched in 2011 and has been primarily amplifier focused
- Now they’re profiling some well-known overdrives with OS 8.0
- Ibanez/Maxon TS808 and TS9, Klon, Horizon Devices Precision Drive, Boss OD-1 and SD-1, Analogman King of Tone, Timmy, and the Marshall Bluesbreaker Mk1
- It’s interesting to think about Kemper being one of the oldest modern modelers yet is still a standard people talk about. Will drives keep them relevant?
- The Pedal Movie
- Reverb.com is making a feature-length documentary film about guitar pedals
- Told by the people who make them and the artists that use them.
- There’s a couple of exclusive pedals being made in promotion of the film
- Chase Bliss Audio and Z.Vex have paired up for a tricked out version of the Fuzz Factory
- Earthquaker Devices and Death By Audio paired up for the Time Shadows. A sub-harmonic multi-delay resonator.
- Both are limited to 1000 units, sound really cool, and have already sold out!
- BIG thank you to our Patreon Supporters!
- Andrew Walsh
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
1 hr 30 min - Featuring Sean from Lollygagger FX! (Analog Man Sun Face)
- Ep. 174 - This is Season 174
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every-other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
- Derek won the Mythos Pedals 10 Year Anniversary giveaway! (stab: Snow White)
- Also traded a few things taking up space and got a good deal on the Walrus Audio Julianna. It’s awesome. (stab: WA Luminary)
- Pedal Genie
- Caroline Guitar Co Parabola “PARABOLA™ is the sonic equivalent of riding your space mammoth through giant puddles in the astral plane while feeding it caffeinated energy drinks.”
- Hungry Robot The Borderland (tap) - $249.10
- Epiphone and Gibson Custom Shop have teamed up for a ‘59 Les Paul (stab: Mathews The Architect)
- “Custom shop approved” whatever that means
- Gibson USA Burstbuckers (that’s what my 2017 Les Paul Traditional has)
- It features a long neck tenon!
- 59 rounded C neck profile, mahogany body, maple top, indian laurel fretboard with a 12” radius
- Limited run, $800.
- Does this just continue to highlight that Gibson’s prices and whole thing are stupid?
- BIG thank you to our Patreon Supporters!
- Andrew Walsh
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
1 hr 20 min - Ep. 173 - I've Got A LOT of Knob Hanging Over My Enclosure (Feat. Doug from Thirty7 FX!)
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every-other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
00:26:50 MXR M305 Tremolo (stab: Mr Black Supermoon Reverb)
- Multi-function trem pedal in a normal sized MXR enclosure
- Offers six waveforms including the original M159 Stereo Tremolo from MXR which is based on fender amp trem
- There’s also bias trem, “revo” which is an optical waveform in reverse, traditional opto photocell, square wave, and harmonic trem
- Controls for speed, gain, and depth. The gain knob is a push-push control for toggling the wave shapes
- Push and hold the gain knob and you can access envelope mode! Speed and depth are both controlled by the dynamics of your playing. You can set a max speed and depth range
- Can be run in true or buffered bypass, stereo via TRS cable, and has expression or tap input
- $159
Pedal Genie
00:45:40 Doug Christ from Thirty7 FX joins us! (stab: MP ? No idea)
- People have heard us talk about the Fat Guy Little Coat fuzz a lot lately. Tell us about how you started pedal building.
- The thing I love about it is, it’s a fuzz but it behaves like a distortion or overdrive. Hard to explain but it’s about how it feels when I hit the string. How do you even do that?
- Tell us about the new PCB version. How does it work to translate a circuit design?
- What else do you have in the works!?
- Check out Masters of the Cinematic Universe!
BIG thank you to our Patreon Supporters!
- Andrew Walsh
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
The Tone Control is sponsored by Pedal Genie. Head to PedalGenie.com to start your wishlist today and tell them you heard about it on The Tone Control!
Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter: @thetonecontrol
1 hr 33 min - Ep. 172 - People are People and What is Better?
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every-other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
- Derek bought a Headrush FRFR Cab! (stab: Blackout effectors Blunderbuss fuzz)
- Got a great deal on a used one.
- ~30lbs, 2000W, extremely loud,
- 2 XLR/1/4” combo jacks, one XLR out. This means you can go helix/headrush/etc to the speaker, to FOH
- Each input has a volume control
- Contour control for low volume (mid scoop) and a ground lift
- How about that Coppersound Triplegraph?!? (stab: Wampler Faux Tape Echo)
- Pedal Genie
- Benson preamp https://www.bensonamps.com/preamp/preamp
- Big Ear MORE MORE MORE https://thesoundparcel.co/products/big-ear-n-y-c-more-more-more
- Preamp pedals? https://youtu.be/wj-d5h8E9YU
- Boss OC-5 (stab: SSBS Mini)
- See ya later OC-2
- Dry blend, +1 octave, -1 octave, -2 octave
- Zero-latency polyphonic tracking, unless you don’t want that! Vintage mode is an option
- “Range” knob lets you select where the octave effect is applied.
- You’re able to have octave effects only on your lowest strings, for example
- Direct out for wet/dry rigs
- $129
- BIG thank you to our Patreon Supporters!
- Andrew Walsh
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- Eric Girabaldi
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
The Tone Control is sponsored by Pedal Genie. Head to PedalGenie.com to start your wishlist today and tell them you heard about it on The Tone Control!
Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter: @thetonecontrol
1 hr 10 min - BONUS: The CopperSound Pedals/Third Man Records TRIPLEGRAPH
The Triplegraph is a digital octave pedal designed by CopperSound Pedals and Jack White, featuring three proprietary telegraph keys and an integrated auxiliary loop. Utilizing a high-power DSP Blackfin Processor, Triplegraph triggers an octave down with the left key, octave up with the right key, while the middle key activates a killswitch or auxiliary loop.
In KILL mode, the middle key acts as a momentary killswitch, allowing the player to remove their dry signal and attain a fully wet octave up and/or down when used in conjunction with the octave keys.
In AUXILIARY mode, the player can connect one or more of their favorite effects in parallel with the octaves via the send/return jacks, and trigger them in momentary bursts. The high and low octaves can be triggered in parallel with the dry signal when the octave keys are pressed independently.
The octaves themselves track seamlessly with zero latency and can be triggered in latching or momentary modes, using our “Loctave” toggle switches. The telegraph keys themselves are composed of custom stainless steel and aluminum components, making them indestructible and exceedingly durable for both hand and foot operation. Over four years in the making, the collaborative result is an innovative, state of the art clean-tracking octave pedal, capable of standing its own against industry standards.
Limited Edition and Standard Edition Bundles
There are two special bundles available for Triplegraph: The Limited Edition model comes with an exclusive Yellow finish, black and white print, a custom steel machined serial badge plate, a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Jack himself, and a custom-designed book, all elegantly packed in a special edition box. There are only 100 Limited Edition units available.
All of the Standard Editions are finished in a sharp, matte black finish with yellow and white print, packed in a standard box. Both models come with a custom-designed 130+ page book that documents the entire process; spanning over four years of prototyping, engineering, building, road testing, and stories from this exciting collaboration, all designed and photographed by CopperSound.
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The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every-other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
The Tone Control is sponsored by Pedal Genie. Head to PedalGenie.com to start your wishlist today and tell them you heard about it on The Tone Control!
Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter: @thetonecontrol
1 hr 24 min - Ep. 171 - The Guitar Is Back Comma Baby! (feat. Rhett Shull!)
The Tone Control has a Discord server! If you like the show and enjoy talking about everything from new gear to music theory to video games, come hang out and chat with us. Discord is open and free to all fans of The Tone Control!
We’re also now on Patreon! For $1 per month, you get a shout out in every episode and our unconditional love. For a mere $2 per month, you’ll get exclusive access to the Recording Booth in Discord where you can listen to us record the show LIVE in all its unedited glory and chat with us about the show, during the show, every-other Thursday at 8 pm. Bring your best gifs for the ad break!
00:07:06 Fender and many others have sold more guitars in 2020 than ever before (stab: WA Descent)
00:19:40 Walrus Audio Julianna $250 (stab: (Bogner Burnley)
- Julia, one of the best selling chorus/vibrato pedals out there has an update!
- Now in stereo! Pedal sends dry to one amp and wet to the other
- Tap tempo footswitch with subdivision as well as an external tap/expression input
- Expression can control dept, rate, or both.
- Toggle switch for wave shape (triangle, sine, and random)
- Momentary secondary controls
- Hold down the bypass switch allows you to set a secondary LFO rate and control the amount of drift added to the LFO
- Drift gently speeds and slows the LFO rate. Not randomized, but still variable.
- Hold the Tap switch to activate secondary sounds.
- Controls for rate, depth, lag, and D-C-V
- Lag lets you set the center delay time that the LFO modulates around.
- D-C-V blend is setting the ratio of dry to wet signal through the mono channel. Vibrato fully clockwise, chorus around noon, dry fully counter-clockwise
00:27:52 Benson Preamp (pedal tease)
00:33:24 Rhett Shull joins us! (stab: Deepspace Devices Golem)
- Atlanta/Nashville based guitarist and youtuber with over 240,000 subscribers!
- How did YouTube start for you? Was it something to try and supplement the life of a working musician? Was it just for fun?
- What’s your process like for creating a video? How long does it take?
- Tell us about Backstage Live. Is playing to a live stream even coming close to a “real gig”? How do you even begin to set something like that up?
- From Eric, one of our Patrons: Is being a professional guitarist what you expected it would be? What about it isn’t what you thought it would be
- What tremolo would you walk into a store and buy right now? (also from Eric)
- Is there some new piece of gear you’re most excited to try out?/What piece of gear is on the top of your wishlist?
- Check out Rhett’s Discord server: https://discord.gg/hMTvsRb
The Tone Control is sponsored by Pedal Genie. Head to PedalGenie.com to start your wishlist today and tell them you heard about it on The Tone Control.
Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter: @thetonecontrol
1 hr 24 min - Ep. 170 - I'm Used to the Dive
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/yy4brEM
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thetonecontrol
- Happy seven year anniversary!
- Seriously absolutely mega huge thank you to everyone for supporting the show for so long! We love the community that is growing around the podcast and we can't wait to share what we have in the works for the coming year. Cheers!!
- Bass gear for guitarists? (stab: Analog Man SunFace)
Affordable options for gear (either amps or modeling)“Options for the guitarist who is plenty far along and knows how things work but hasn’t spent time with a bass”- Why are we never satisfied with our signal chain? (stab: Killbyte delay)
- Pedal Genie
MojoHand Rook $159- Top 5 things for boards, gig bags, shows, studio, etc? (stab: Wampler Latitude)
- What gear do we each want to get? (stab: I forgot to do one, and it’s already late so… too bad!)
Not stuff from Pedal Genie, but what gear is on your wishlist?Thank you to our Patreon supporters!
- Brian Gower and Kyle McIntyre of The Tone Jerks Podcast
- Andrew Walsh
- Jamie Evans
- Jeffrey Wright
- Doug King
- Sean Wright of Lollygagger FX
- Doug Gann
- Righteous Ryan Johnson
- Doug Christ of Thirty7 FX
- Steve Huffman
- Jonas Sabatini
- OG Friend of the show Brian Rizzi
- Eric Girabaldi
1 hr 29 min - Ep. 169 - They Should Have Called it the Vint-Ish Line
New stuff from Fender (stab: Keeley Aria)
- Road worn vintera strat and tele
- Vintera series has been out for a little bit (talked about in ep139)
- Road worn series has some light factory aging which I think looks pretty cool!
- Limited edition 50’s and 60’s strats and teles, a 70’s deluxe tele
- 50’s strat comes in surf green or fiesta red, 60’s strat in firemist gold or lake placid blue
- 50’s tele in vintage blonde or lake placid blue (both with black guards, hot)
- 70’s tele in daphne blue or Olympic white w/black guard
60 year anniversary Jazz Bass- Alder body, U shape maple neck with a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard.
- Fretboard binding! Painted headstock! CHROME!
- Concentric stacked pots
- Arctic pearl with 4-ply tortoiseshell pickguard
Pedal Genie
- Supro Delay - $219
- MXR Phase 95 - $99
Wong Notes Podcast (stab: CB Sabbra Cadabra)
- Cory Wong of Vulfpeck and The Fearless Flyers is hosting a podcast on Premier Guitar called Wong Notes
- Interviews other guitarists and it’s really well done!
- Episode 11 just dropped with James Valentine of Maroon 5.
Passthrough Frequencies Podcast (stab: WA Mayflower)
- Hosted by Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World
- Interviews musicians about music, songwriting, making albums, touring, etc
- Mark Hoppus, Steve Aoki, Nate Ruess, Chris Carraba, and Ben Gibbard so far
1 hr 5 min
About The Tone Control
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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 Monday.
You can join our Discord to talk with us and other gear heads at https://discord.gg/H2xTfm6