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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 Monday. You can join our Discord to talk with us and other gear heads at https://discord.gg/H2xTfm6
Episodes
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Ep. 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…
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Ep. 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…
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Ep. 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…
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Ep. 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…
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Ep. 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…
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Ep 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…
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Ep. 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…
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Ep. 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…
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Ep. 142 - With A Presence of Forethought That Is Nothing Short of A Miracle
Bodacious Brian’s big, big rigs and also sometimes little rigs too! (stab: RedWitch Empress) Brian mentioned to me that we should do OUR OWN rigs for…
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Ep. 141 - The Worst of Both Words: Vibrating My Butt With Very Very Much Loudness
Crash! (stab:805) Sold the amp! HX Stomp! Wahoo! (stab: Apocalypse Fuzz on bass) Righteous Tele! (stab: Wombtone) Demo features all three pickups on a 50W…
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Ep. 140 - Sometimes We All Want That Shitty Pizza
Derek sold him amp! Kind of… HX Stomp (stab: OE Revival) Digitech drop update. Standard guitar in an Eb band. (stab: Mathews The Architect) Righteous Tele…
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Ep. 139 - It's A Heat Clock!
Ernie Ball VP Jr. (stab: Chicka-wahh) I asked them when this sucker would be out and they said winter 2019. Gibson’s “Play Authentic” marketing results in them…
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Ep. 138 - They Cut The Guitar Part Off
Podcast suggestion: Hit Parade (stab: Sea Foam) New Guitar Day: Fender Special Edition Custom FMT Telecaster (stab: WA Descent) Derek got it on scratch and…
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Ep. 137 - $600?! R. Kelly Must Have Peed on it or Something
Righteous Tele update (stab: Red Witch Factotum) Instagram questions (stab: Stone Deaf Warp Drive) How many drives is too many? Channel bound fingerboards, yes…
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Ep. 136 - "Dongle" is the word you're looking for
J forgot something (stab: Earthquaker Rainbow machine) Pick 5 pedals from one builder, what 5? (Stab: PitchGrinder) Fractal Audio FM3 (Stab: SG Electroman)…
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Ep. 135 - What I Can't Figure Out Is... Anything.
BEER OR GEAR?!?!?! (stab: Mr Black Dark Star Reverb) (Special note: if you’re bored by this segment skip to 18:55 when we wrap it up) Richter Double Guitar…
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Ep. 134 - What's A Podcast? I'm Eight.
THE TONE JERKS ARE HERE! They’re here! The Tone Jerks run a killer weekly podcast that we’re big fans of and we think you should check them out Give us a…
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Ep. 133 - Ours Has TWO Lights
Derek is building a tele for Righteous Ryan! Shell pink, Bare Knuckle flat 50s pickups, roasted maple neck with compound radius and stainless steel frets…
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Ep. 132 - Kyle's Complaints with a K
To skip past our computer talk and get to the goods, skip to 10:19. Hit Anchor.fm/shuffleall to hear Derek's new podcast! Questions from the components! (stab…
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Ep. 131 - It's Such A Good Idea, It's Stupid
Ep. 131 - It's Such A Good Idea, It's Stupid We're on Anchor.fm! Download the app and leave us a voicemail! Ernie Ball VP JR Tuner (stab: SD Warp Drive) Tuner…
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Ep. 130 - It's A Rat With Robot Legs! It Can Learn Tricks!
Ep. 130 - It’s a Rat With Robot Legs! It Can Learn Tricks! EarthQuaker Devices Swiss Things (stab: SG Electroman) 2 Effects loops, with an a/b/y switcher…
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Ep. 128 - That's a wrap on 2018!
It's the annual holiday episode! Enjoy our after show and title nonsense!
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Ep. 127 - Is That True? Or Is It A Prediction?
It's the final (real) episode of 2018! You should watch Earworm on Vox and check out the new Fender American Performer Series.
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Ep. 126 - Look At How Safe I Am!
Derek plays guitar in Delaney now! Check out the song "Architect of Shame" here in the episode. New reverb from Chase Bliss, a wild distortion from Abasi, and…
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Ep. 125 - Grip Those Cheeks Tightly!
Are you ready for the be-all, end-all amp in a box drive pedal?
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Ep. 123 - One Is Just Shaped Like A Floor.
It took them like 3 years to fix this headphone interface issue. Better late than never I guess?
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Ep. 122 - It's Great For Sounding Like A Total Dillhole
SEE YA LATER, LARRY! Although, Gibson does have a pretty cool new guitar. A pretty rad FUZZ from Wren & Cuff, an amp collaborative between Supro and Keeley…
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Ep. 121 - The Les Paul Jr. Is The Prince Shape
Derek is back from vacation and he's sick! Get ready for stories, coughing, and new Gibson guitars.
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Ep. 120 - Here's The Scoop, Band Names Are Bad
Look at this weird Fender guitar you can't buy. Also huge thanks to Brian and Ryan for their respective sections! Be sure to check out Plane Without A Pilot on…
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Ep. 119 - "Gonna Make A Sandwich" Speed
We're doing a giveaway with Coppersound Pedals! Details inside!
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Ep. 118 - Even More Accurate
There's finally some light at the end of the tunnel for Gibson.
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Ep. 117 - OH MY GOD I DIDN'T WRITE DOWN A SINGLE TITLE
Go watch Searching for Sugarman. We've got a really amazing looking amp from Supro, as well as a tamed down AC30 1x12!
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Ep. 116 - Pure Distraction from Tyler, Start to Finish
Show notes available at tonecontrolshow.com!
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Ep. 115 - Damn old fool, I knew you were going to say that
Show notes available at tonecontrolshow.com!
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Ep. 114 - The Very, Very Stinky Sanchez or Whatever...
Some rad new 60th anniversary Jazzmasters, yet another weirdo (in the best way) pedal from Dr. No Effects, and some sweet dirt boxes from Pedal Genie!
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Ep. 112 - It's A Little More Globular
I don't really want my iPad on the floor, ya know?
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Ep. 111 - Pumpin' My Palm Mutes
Not a lot of news this wee but we've got some stories for ya.
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Ep. 110 - Don't Start Believin'
It's an episode of The Tone Control so that means we're talking about Gibson... but, it's actually kind of interesting this time.
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Ep. 109 - It Was Climatic, But Not Climactic
It's Stratocaster week! Also we heard back from Sam over at Fretish.com about the security concerns, a great and then an oddball pedal from Pedal Genie, and…
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Ep. 108 - Yeah, Reverb Is Just Short For Reverberization
Do you guys like curling? I like curling. I'll be honest, we kind of went off on Gibson this week. Hopefully Justin cut out some of that nonsense.
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Ep. 107 - Oh God! We Forgot The Mac Drivers!
The usual rambling and then more NAMM news!
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Ep. 106 - I'm Gonna Scream Those Tubes With This Tube Screamer
This is the pre-NAMM news we got... on the first day of NAMM... which you'll be listening to after the last day of NAMM... Okay.
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Ep. 105 - I'm Going To Need Things To Be Purple And In DADGAD, Please.
Gibson's not at NAMM huh? Bold.
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Ep. 103 - Adjectives Per Dollar
Tony from Pedal Genie joins us to talk about some cool new stuff from Free The Tone and Fender, as well as Pedal Genie's most wished and most rented pedals of…
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Ep. 101 - The Um Rate
Here's to the next 100 episodes! Some hilarious stuff from Dr. No, A couple of cool pedals from Pedal Genie, and a new PRS model for 2018!
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Ep. 100 - Don't Pat The Blades
Featuring Joey Landreth! Huge thanks to Joey for hanging out with us and talking about all the nerdy guitar things we could think of! Be sure to check out what…
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Ep. 99 - I Will Never Know... for now
Despite what it might seem like, this is NOT the episode where we never end up talking about guitar stuff.
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Ep. 98 - Let's Simplify This... That Did Not Work.
Show notes are available at tonecontrolshow.com
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Ep. 96 - Complete Butt Blood
Story time! Derek got a new Les Paul Traditional! A look at the new 2018 Gibson lineup as well as come rad axes from Moniker guitars
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Ep. 95 - Higher Fi? High Fier?
Pedals and load boxes! New from Daredevil Pedals, the Cocked and Fearless, EQD Releases the MOST EQD PEDAL OF ALL TIME, the Data Corrupter, a couple of…
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Ep. 94 - New from Gibson! The “Aw, man” level of relicing!
A really interesting take on a clean boost from Fortin Amps, A travesty from Gibson, and a LIVE Pedal Genie segment!
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Ep. 93 - You Still Sitting On That Ball?
We missed a week... again... but we're back with all the NAMM news we thought was cool enough to talk about. Can anyone guess the mysterious event that…
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Ep. 92 - We Did Already Did It
Live from Cincinnati! We have the new tremolo from TC Electronic, some unique custom guitars, and a cool small builder from Righteous Ryan