Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone

Brian, Blake, and Richard are joined by the legends that are Max Jeffrey and Travis Feaster for this special 500th episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! In this celebratory episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast we are joined by the very two fellers that started this journey off with Brian - Travis Feaster and Max Jeffrey. This is a podcast first for Chasing Tone but fair warning - things get out of h...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for episode 499 of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is back with us after an extended stint at NAMM and his voice is registering somewhere between Bane and Batman. Richard makes his feelings known much to Brian's amusement. Was this the best NAMM for several years? It sounds like it might have been and the guys chat about what this means for the guitar indust...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for episode 498 of the Chasing Tone Podcast! We start off with some talk about the genetics of weightlifters and Ozzy Osbourne and somehow the two are related. Brian is looking forward to a week off from the world as he is not going to NAMM and Richard laments his lack of popularity.  His eye was turned by the new Keeley Muse Driver and completely fails to unders...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for episode 497 of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian's recorded a new theme tune for the show and the guys are excited to share it with everyone before looking at some artificial unintelligence developments. Richard is not impressed with the underlying robotic signature or something. Whatever. He also tries to add some structure to the show with a special feat...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for episode 496 of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard has created a monster and has recorded 7 podcast episodes in 7 days and issues a formal apology before professing immense respect and love for Chibson and their body of work. Some gushing may occur. This leads on to a discussion about the new Schecter Machine Gun Kelly signature guitar and Brian refuses to beli...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for episode 495 of the Chasing Tone Podcast! The guys are back with a whole bunch of random views on what's going on in the gear world, and start off with some discussion about the Germanium Tumnus, gear flippers, and financial advice from Brian.  Richard's made a guitar error and he is not afraid to confess to his heinous crime and there is some talk a...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for episode 494 of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard has been suffering badly with the Covids and opens up with some interesting confessions about the worst crimes he has committed. He is a terrible man. Brian and Blake also 'fess up and all the guys may - or may not - be in serious trouble as a result.  Richard tells us some guitar based tales of his family...

Brian and Richard are joined by infamous Youtube creator KDH for a special episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian invited Youtube creator and fellow gear nerd KDH onto the show and both he and Richard are astonished by how young he is - and by extension how old they are. He tells us about his earliest memories and the early inspirations that got him into playing, nerding out over gear, and mak...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has a new piece of gear and he is very happy with it so tells us all about it - could it mean the introduction of a new form factor for Wampler gear? Meanwhile Richard isn't feeling himself (turns out he had Covid brewing but didn't realise it) and Blake has a guitar mystery. Do you hang your gui...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian welcomes us with tales of the sheer mania that occurred when we released a limited edition pedal that sold out instantly and he now wants to start manufacturing diodes for a living. There is some chatter about the technology inside the new Germanium Tumnus, the guys try to dispel a few common myths, and Ri...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! We are joined today by Blake's manifestation of Maria Carey before Brian confounds his cohosts and we repeat the rules of Whamageddon for the benefit of the hard of thinking. Is Blake predicting the future and is Brian aware of the present? Almost. There is big pedal news too! Brian is releasing a very spec...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Welcome, listeners, to some serious guitar talk! This week the biggest subject has to be the new Notaklon pedal construction set from the fine folk at JHS and we look at the sheer marketing genius that went into this release. Richard is impressed and dismayed in equal measure and predicts the future of internet...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has had orders from the very top to create a certain new type of pedal and he has been burning the midnight oil to achieve this so we start off by listening to his merry tales. Blake channels his inner royalty and Richard questions the levels of surveillance and espionage that Brian is currently engaged in...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! We start off with an unusually medical introduction and Blake has new monitors but is very secretive about them but offers some beauty tips. Meanwhile Richard has had a goody bag from the amazing Markus Reeves of Reeves Electro and was highly impressed. Blake opens up an old wound with Richard and it stings. It...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian heralds this episode in with a very royal fanfare and there is much merriment and delusion filled laughter as we hail the British King of fuzz. Brian hasn't been sleeping because he's been coming up with a multitude of crazy new ideas and he tells us about that as the guys trade age and caffeine...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! There is some prime guitar related content, allegedly, as the guys look at a recent moment of controversy involving a guitar learning tool and Richard makes a shocking personal revelation or two. Brian, on the other hand, has been arguing with machines. It is exactly as moronic as it sounds. Blake tries to injec...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has been dabbling with technology whereas Blake's mind is going at a million miles a minute and he may just be losing his mind.  This is the result of caffeine abuse and Brian is confused. Blake has been to see a punk band which leads to a debate about the best looking Les Paul ever. Whats the most an...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! There's a lot going on in the world, happily that includes some pedal releases, and so Blake comes in with some of his own special extrovert phantasmal energy to help launch the new Benson Amps delay pedal. Brian and Richard discuss nerdy things to do with circuits, discuss some of the previous Wampler dela...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake's ready to become cybernetic so he ponders his potential upgrade path before the guys  discuss a huge new release  announcement from Fender, the Tone Master pro. Its a full scale digital modeling solution and it has the guys attention. Meanwhile, Richard is made to eat his words about who is the bigge...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! The guys start off with an unhealthy dose of utter nonsense before looking at some of the gear news of the moment including the new IR-X from Friedman.  It has real tubes in it and Brian is a fan.  Richard asks stupid questions and Blake sniggers at him. Brian talks about frequency spectrums. A pedal is virtuall...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Wampler have released limited editions of two of their most popular products from the past, the Tweed'57 and the Black'65 "Amp in a Box" pedals, and Brian breaks down a little bit of the history of how they came to be. He also makes a number of potentially foolish video based confessions. Bri...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian starts off with some pure filth and Richard tells us tales of the life of an English school kid which massively confuses Brian and Blake.  Meanwhile, Richard has graduated from pedal kits and has made his own pedal from scratch and tells us about it. He makes a slight tiny mistake, well, many, and informs...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake has been struggling with various household appliances and Brian has helpful diagnostic information while Richard provides an interesting view on electrical safety differences between certain countries. There is an update to a previous story regarding a famous gear Youtuber / Retailer and how the British ad...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard makes some bold and outrageous claims about his fuzz pedal credentials having built exactly one pedal ever and has had some help from one of our supporters and tells us all about it before he and Brian have a genius business idea. Yes genius that is what i said. Blake enquires about the density of a key...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian and Blake come at Richard with some stereotyping and then Richard confesses he has been listening to some country music and some classic American rock. Is this a negative reality inversion? Meanwhile Blake tells us about a recent vacation where he got to play a guitar that needed serious setup. Brian asks...