BIG SHINY TONES with JAY LEONARD J and JONATHAN LINDSAY

Five Martin acoustics, one test, and a whole lot of confident guessing. We try to hear the difference between tonewoods… and immediately start second-guessing everything. Things get competitive, logic goes out the window, and somehow the “obvious” answers get harder the longer we listen. Who actually knows their ears… and who’s just talking?

Let’s be honest. Everybody loves the ES-335.Almost nobody loves the price tag. So we grabbed some dangerously good semi-hollow guitars from Eastman, Gretsch, and Yamaha and asked the real question:How close can you get to classic 335 tone without selling a kidney? Expect jazz, blues, rock tones… and a few moments where we seriously question why people spend Gibson money.

Does bolting a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece onto a Fender Telecaster ruin it… or unlock its secret alter ego?

Jay Leonard J and Jonathan Lindsay rip, riff, and roast everything in sight—NAMM tales included. Vintage Gibson SGs - Guitar nerds, this is your chaos injection. Jay Leonard J https://www.instagram.com/jayleonardj Jonathan Lindsay https://www.instagram.com/jlindsay_guitarVideo/Editing: Mitchell Parsons https://www.instagram.com/calmthemonsterhttps://www.instagram.com/tapestrymusicstore

Norm’s Rare Guitars is turning the page, and the vintage guitar world is buzzing! From the sale to NAMM 2026 buzz, we’re spilling the riffs, rumors, and rare-gear chaos you didn’t know you needed. 🎸⚡ YOUTUBE: @tapestrymusicshop TAPESTRYMUSIC.COM

Big Shiny Tones dives headfirst into the beautiful, unstable world of guitar tremolos. Vintage, modern, floating, decked, locked, half-broken and held together by hope — if it makes your pitch wobble, we’re talking about it. Some trems stay in tune. Some absolutely do not. All of them have opinions. We’re not here to crown a winner. We’re here to yank on the bar, ignore the manual, and find out wh...

✨ That’s a wrap on Big Shiny Tones for the year! ✨This season was all about experimenting, finding the groove, leveling up, and chasing the shine. Huge thanks to everyone who tuned in, turned it up, and took a ride with us. Straight into 2026—new ideas, fresh tones, and even bigger energy on the way. This isn’t the end… we're just getting started. Stick around, stay shiny, and we’ll see you in 2...

Gear is gifted. Tone is optional. 🔥This year, Jay and Jonathan are secretly picking pedals, amps, and maybe a few questionable surprises for each other. Behind the scenes it’s scheming, plotting, and plotting again — on camera, it’s all smiles and cranked-to-11 riffs. Wishing you all a loud rock ’n’ roll holiday season. Thanks for riding the tone wave with us this year — we couldn’t do it without...

Crank the amps and grab your favorite mug ☕🎸—today we’re putting Browne Ethane vs Browne Protein OD head-to-head in a no-nonsense, no-solder-sniffing overdrive showdown. Same family, different flavors… but which one actually earns pedalboard real estate and which one politely gets benched? We also hit some pedal news and tip our hats to a legend, Steve Cropper. On the board:Browne Ethane OD – ti...

Fifty years of Iron Maiden fury and Fender/Jackson cranking the volume—so of course we had to dive headfirst into the chaos. Wampler TCD overdrive screaming, Digitech Badder Monkey on the loose, and the world’s most dangerous question: Is chasing tone just procrastination? Gretsch crashes the party with the new Synchromatic Falcon and Nashville, dripping retro swagger. And yes… we crown a Tube Scr...

Welcome back to Big Shiny Tones, where Jonathan Lindsay and Jay Leonard J plug in, turn up, and refuse to play it safe. This week we unleash the EVH 5150iii Hypersonic—the brand-new digital 5150 that everyone will be arguing about. Hype? Heresy? Hidden genius? We crank it, shred through it, and break down what’s actually going on under the hood. Dropped Dec 3. Prepare your volume knobs. Then it’s...

The Line 6 Helix Stadium XL is back and flexing harder than a prog drummer in 7/8, the Jacob Collier GS Mini 5-String is out here bending physics and feelings, and Rigs On Trial returns with a spicy community submission from @Heni_Jimdrix. Plus, we’re unleashing the Tube Screamer of the Day—don’t ask which one, it’s probably the wrong one and that’s the point. And bringing this whole circus togeth...

Big Shiny Tones tears into the week with a trifecta of guitar-nerd mayhem: the shimmering swagger of the Johnny Marr Signature Jaguar, built for jangly arpeggios and clean lines sharp enough to shave with; the unhinged sonic chaos of Jack White’s Troika pedal, a three-headed fuzz monster that sounds like it was wired together in a thunderstorm; and John Mayer, calmly dropping bombs from the tone-g...

BIG SHINY TONES — EPISODE 11Where we salute legends, roast gear myths, and gently bully our own pedalboards. Kirk Hammett is unloading 150+ guitars like he’s spring-cleaning a haunted mansion—yes, including that silver Gibson CEO4 SG he shredded during Black Sabbath’s farewell show. Meanwhile, Trey Anastasio has declared modern guitar music “same-y,” so he’s writing riffs on piano now, which is ei...

Hop in the DeLorean and crank the flux capacitor to “tone.” In this episode of BIG SHINY TONES, Jay Leonard J and Jonathan Lindsay time-travel through the legend of the Gibson Back to the Future guitar — a six-string straight outta 1985 and into your dreams. We’re talking chrome and flux with a little Huey Lewis energy. Joining the ride: the Benson Amp that could charm Doc Brown himself and the Ki...

This week on Tha News, Joe Bonamassa teams up with Epiphone for a shiny new signature model—Seymour Duncans, vintage vibes, and enough class to make your wallet nervous. JAM’s rolling out another fuzz box that promises to turn polite riffs into pure chaos, and NUX is trying to convince us that looping onstage actually looks cool… jury’s still out on that one. In Unpopular Opinion, we’re doubling d...

Do 5-watt amps suck? In the latest gearpocalypse, Catalinbread's Mini Fuzz is out here shrinking the Mosrite Fuzzrite's splattery '60s psych-freakery into a pedalboard bullet that turns your riffs into incense-scented chaos—because who needs room for nuance when you've got garage-rock napalm? Meanwhile, G&L Guitars just slammed the factory doors shut, auctioning off Leo Fender&...

In the shadowy lair of Big Shiny Tones EP7, the Fender American Pro Classics slink in like a noir antihero snarling with a glassy edge sharp enough to cut through your soul’s darkest regrets. Then slithers the Beetronics BeeBeeDee, an analog delay pedal with a sinister grin, spitting warm, tape-like echoes that twist into pitch-shifted nightmares—think a swarm of cursed bees trapped in a haunted j...

Episode 6 of Big Shiny Tones, where hosts Jay Leonard J and Jonathan Lindsay (the dynamic duo who make gear reviews feel like a rock 'n' roll therapy session) summon the ghost of Extreme coolness: Nuno Bettencourt himself. We're diving headfirst into Positive Grid's BIAS X, the AI wizard that's basically Skynet for your guitar rig—whisper "that crunchy Edge vibe from '...

Buckle up, tone chasers—meet the Marshall JMP Preamp Module, the pint-sized Plexi powerhouse that's got more vintage growl than a '70s rock god stumbling out of a glitter-fueled fever dream. Born from the epic alliance of Marshall and Synergy, this dual-channel tube beast (twin 12AX7s for that authentic harmonic hangover) lets you flip between '60s smooth-operator vibes and '70s he...

Welcome to Big Shiny Tones, where we dive headfirst into the glittering abyss of guitar gear that'll make your axe sound like it's auditioning for a UFO sighting (They’re in the oceans 🛸 😉). Today, let's talk Floyd Rose tremolos—oh baby, these bad boys aren't just bridges, they're the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti of whammy bars, locking down your strings tighter than a conspiracy theorist's tin-f...

Come for the joyride as Big Shiny Tones Episode 3 cranks the insanity to 11 with fretboard-shredding maniac Ben Bullett, hollering from a van held together by sheer willpower and old guitar strings! We put his RIG ON TRIAL so check it out and see what the jury has to say. Did you watch the 2025 VMAS? We discuss the OZZY tribute with Matt McAthur. Shop in Store: Tapestry Music - Vancouver 2705 Main...

Big Shiny Tones Episode 2: The Norlin Era Gibson Guitar Fiasco - A Comedy of Frets and Regrets. Welcome to Big Shiny Tones, where we polish the tarnished tales of music history with a side of snark! In Episode 2, we dive headstock-first into the infamous Norlin Era of Gibson guitars, a time when "quality control" was more of a suggestion than a rule. Picture this: heavier bodies, wonky headstocks,...

Buckle up, groove cats! Season one Episode one of BIG SHINY TONES is here! So much to talk about, but how about the new Boss PX-1 Plugout FX... Thoughts? Comment below!