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Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
Welcome to the Chasing Tone Podcast! Join Brian Wampler, Blake Wyland, Richard Oliver, and a variety of special guests as they dive into the world of guitars, pedals, amps, and other guitar gear. From answering your burning questions to discussing bands, gigs, and the latest trends in the guitar world, we cover it all. Expect plenty of off-topic banter and a behind-the-scenes look at our work at Wampler Pedals. If you enjoy guitar podcasts that feel like hanging out with your musician friends…
Episodes
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
341 - New to guitar gear? Start Here
Brian and Blake are back and once again joined by Wampler’s own Richard Oliver in this weeks episode. Brian is doing a little project for an outside entity and…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
340 - NAMM releases, Ghost stories and UFO’s
Brian and Blake are back and once again joined by Wampler’s own Richard Oliver in this weeks episode. Blake has a ghost story about a local theme park he and…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
339 - New Fender releases and new gear day
Brian and Blake are back and once again joined by Wampler’s own Richard Oliver in this weeks episode. Fender introduced their new line of guitars, amps and…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
338 - Gibson buys Mesa and Alien Discussions
Brian and Blake are back and once again joined by Wampler’s own Richard Oliver in this weeks episode. There was some news in the gear world this week as Gibson…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
337 - Wampler Christmas Special
Brian and Blake are back and once again joined by Wampler’s own Richard Oliver in this weeks episode. The guys take on some questions from our Wampler Tone…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
336 - Lawsuits and Semi Hollow Guitars
Brian and Blake are back and joined by Richard Oliver in this weeks episode. There is an artist that has built some great success and has gotten the attention…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
335 - A visit with Henning Pauly
Brian welcomes Henning Pauly to this weeks episode. Henning is known for his highly polished gear demos on YouTube as well as his energetic personality. He…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
334 - Gear terms defined
Brian and Blake join forces for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. True Bypass, buffer, gain vs volume? What gear terms are confusing to you? The…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
333 - Something about something
Brian and Blake join forces for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. DeVon Blue is a musician and YouTuber that Blake is working with on a whole new…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
332- Limited run pedals and the dangers of TikTok
Brian and Blake join forces for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Derek is an IT security guy and a fan of the podcast. He recently reached out to…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
331 - Simple modulation pedals and Analog VS Digital
Brian and Blake join forces for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Blake recently got his hands on a Big Ear Albie pedal. It is an 8 mode “ambient…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
330 - Boiling Guitar Strings and Amazon Guitar Pedals
Brian and Blake join forces for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. A recent post in the Wampler Tone group about the topic of boiling guitar strings…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
329 - Is TikTok bringing back rock?
Brian and Blake join forces for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. How many remember Jiffy peanut butter? They just changed the name to Jif recently…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
328 - Eddie Van Halen
Brian and Blake are joined by Andy Wood and Richard Oliver for this episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Last week we sadly lost a legend in the guitar world…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
327 - JHS releases $99 budget pedal line
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Our good friends over at JHS have released a new line of $99 pedals. Josh and…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
326 - Are you using the DS-1 wrong?
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Blake’s YouTube adventure has been an eye opening experience. That leads into a…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
325 - Tape Echoes and Fender's new Cyclone offset guitar
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Blake has some good news in regards to the Oregon fires, however the whole event…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
324 - The best year in guitar sales history?
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Things are getting better in Oregon but Blake is still on notice to be ready to…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
323- Richard Oliver Reveals All
Brian has a conversation with the “Chief of getting things done” at Wampler Pedals, Richard Oliver. Richard talks about his role in the process of pedal…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
322- Lessons from the woods
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Brian is back from hanging with Joe Bonamassa and Brent Mason at the guitar show put…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
321- Camping with Bonamassa
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Brian is going to be a part of a very cool and intimate guitar show next week…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
320- The future of NAMM and the music industry.
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Fender announced the new Brent Mason Signature Telecaster. You better believe the…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
319 - Spotify statement about musicians controversy discussion
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Blake is considering a second non-guitar podcast where he just talks to people who…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
318 - Compression in dirt pedals explained
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. A recent Facebook Gear page conversation revealed a polarizing set of strings…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
317 - Steve Vai on success & the music industry
Pete Thorn, a good friend of the podcast, recently interviewed Guitar god Steve Vai and has graciously allowed us to offer a section of that interview here on…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
316 - Reverb.com increased fees, and that's okay
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Reverb.com announced an increase in their fees that has caused an online meltdown…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
315 - New Diezel head with smart tech?
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Brian and Blake are back for another episode and of the Chasing Tone Podcast along…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
314 - 50 shades of Metal
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. A recent video about the band Periphery and how they strategically position…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
313 - All about that fuzz
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Brian reached out to the Wampler tone group and asked if fuzz is a thing you dislike…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
312 - Big feet and stomp box problems
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Brian got an email from a listener with size 14 1/2 shoes that struggles with his…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
311 - Are Guitar Podcasts Dying?
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Brian was pondering the the possibility that the popularity of guitar based podcasts…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
310 - Mic placement and home recording
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Putting a microphone on an amp to capture your tone can be a very frustrating…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
309 - DOD, Big Muffs and Analog Delays
309 - DOD, Big Muffs and Analog Delays Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Blake came to the realization that he has an…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
308 - Opening back up and Dad rigs
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. As the world starts to open back up and restrictions are lifted the guys ponder what…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
307 - How Covid-19 is changing the gear world
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Covid-19 has changed a lot of things in our lives and businesses. Musical Merchandise…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
306 - A new DIY book, and hand wired pedals are sexy
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. So hot on the heels of his DS-1 DIY book, Brian talks about the newest release in the…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
305 - How to get a gear demo channel started
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Last week Brian told you about his new Kindle book on modding the DS-1. And you…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
304 - Preamps and a new DIY E-book
Brian and Blake are back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. A recent visit to a gear forum raised the question of where to place an ADA MP1. In…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
303 - 9 Free Apps and Plugins to help you make music
Brian welcomes Blake back, at an acceptable social distance of course, for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Ryan Bruce of the Riffs Beards and Gear…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
302 - Brian answers your questions
Brian takes an opportunity to sit down and answer some of your questions in this episode of the Chasing Tone podcast. Steve Garvey asks where to place his…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
301 - Quarantoned at home and free plugins coming
Brian welcomes Blake back for another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. So we are all just a little stir crazy these days. Our way of life and the way we do…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
300 - A Message of Hope, & A New Path Forward
It goes without saying that we are in stressful and uncertain times. The world is closing in around us and for many that may mean diminishing incomes. Many…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
299 - "Too many guitars?" & Catalinbread has new owners
Brian and Blake are back at it with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. We are all working through the changes that have come with the Coronavirus and…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
298 - Biggest threat to the guitar
Brian and Blake are back at it with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Guitar World released a blog discussing the biggest threat to the guitar. It…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
297 - “Corksniffer pedals?”, Trolls and getting grounded
Brian and Blake are back at it with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Musictech.net released an article about a pedal company that was…interesting…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
296 - DSP for beginners
Brian and Blake are back at it with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. DSP. Is it in reach for novice DIYers? Where do you even start to learn to…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
295 - Brian visits PJ and the Beard
Brian recently shot a video with the guys from the “PJ and the Beard” YouTube channel this past week. We share the conversation here. Brian talks about the…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
294 - 11 Reasons NOT to become famous
294 - 11 Reasons NOT to become famous Brian and Blake return for another Chasing Tone Podcast. Tim Ferriss is the author of the book “A Four Hour Work Week”…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
293 - Recording Styles and Selling Gear
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Blake interviewed the guitarist from his favorite band Thrice. That gave him a…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
292 - Have we reached “peak pedal”?
Brian and Blake are back fresh from NAMM with another episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast. Winter NAMM is over and as Brian recovers from NAMMthrax the guys…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
291 - We’ll do it live!
Brian and Blake are at it again on this weeks Chasing Tone podcast. If you missed it, this is the audio from a special Instagram live stream edition of the…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
290 - A visit with Tyler Larson (Music is win)
Brian welcomes YouTuber/Guitarist Tyler Larson to this weeks Chasing Tone podcast. You may be familiar with Tyler’s YouTube channel Music is win, but in this…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
289 - How do you practice guitar and getting ready for a new decade
Brian and Blake are back for an all new episode of the Chasing Tone podcast. As 2019 comes to an end the guys look back on the history of the Chasing Tone…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
288 - Getting Started in Guitar Gear Culture
Brian welcomes Blake back for an all new episode of the Chasing Tone podcast. A simple question from a presumably new guitarist sparked an interesting…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
287 - A visit with Travis Feaster and "rules" for playing on stage
Brian welcomes back Travis Feaster for an all new episode of the Chasing Tone podcast. Philipe Herndon put out four rules for any guitarist playing on stage…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
286 - A visit with Hayden Baker
Brian welcomes Hayden Baker in this special episode of the Chasing Tone podcast. Hayden Baker is an up and coming artist out of Texas that has grabbed Brad…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
285 - Trash Cat Pedals, New Mics and Overpriced used pedals
Brian is joined by Blake for another episode of the Chasing Tone podcast. Trash Cat Pedals is a new start up on Etsy. That sparked a conversation about what it…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
284 - Trails, MIDI and Neural link in guitar gear
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone podcast. On some delay/reverb pedal it is not uncommon to lose the trail effect when you…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
283 - A Tele Obsession, Multi-scale guitars and the Terraform
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone podcast. So Blake was loaned a multi-scale guitar by Jaymar Guitars. This lead to a…
- Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone
282 - 9v vs 18v, Facebook fatigue, and Selling out
Brian and Blake are back with another episode of the Chasing Tone podcast. So Blake posted a picture of his Boss BF2 Flanger on Instagram, and it started an…