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

Brian, Blake, and Richard are here for a classic episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian's out of town, possibly making something that is classified for someone top secret, and so we've decided to re-run one of our classic episodes for you this week with one of our favorite guests of all time, Mr Greg Koch. If you are a member of our Patreon we did record an extra show for you to chec...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake has an anecdote about the Dave Matthews band which he shares with the guys while Richard talks about Threads and an advert that uses the same piece of stock music as this show does. Brian recalls the time he met Hartley Peavey, Blake worries about the provenance of his hat, and Richard talks about the new...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! The guys go straight in at 80,000 feet with the UFO hearing in the USA that dominated the news for about 24 hours and discuss the ramifications of such revelations. Brian speculates that there is more going on and Richard uses a long word and tells us about the horrific weather he has experienced this summer in...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! In the light of recent current events, Richard has decide to rebrand himself, so Blake helps him out with a phone call to someone before telling us about another music festival he attended. Meanwhile, Brian has been hanging out on tour buses, licking windows, and ignoring Barbie while Richard has learned how to...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are joined by the ultra talented YouTube sensation Trey Xavier for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! The guys are delighted to be joined by the one and only Trey Xavier this week who's "Secret Price of the Creative Life" video almost caused Brian to reach his resonant frequency and spontaneously shatter. Trey is a super nice, ridiculously tale...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake's not wearing his trademark tank top and this has turned Brian's world upside down and inside out and he confesses that he feels subnormal. To augment this Brian has been trying to use AI to build guitar pedals with some limited success so he tells us a little about the lessons he has learned and...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is aroused at an ungodly hour in order to fit podcasting in with his schedule of celebrations while Richard is holding speaker and amplifier brands for bargaining power as he attempts to understand the customs of his American friends. Blake is also considering expanding his empire and this turns into a con...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is back from Sweetwater's gearfest and he is quite excited to share the many random shenanigans he has been involved in including participating in various manly exercises with Dovydas. He's also hung out with pretty much everyone who is anyone in the gear world and dishes up all the juicy gossip....

Brian, Richard, and, (checks notes), Jake are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is away to Sweetwater for some sort of content creator jamboree so we are blessed to be joined by the giant intellect of Jake Steffes, Wampler's top engineer, and he has some grievances to air.  Richard is intrigued to hear about Jake's early years, how he got into electronics and...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has been playing with some new audio hardware and we open up hard and fast with his new purchase and why it is pleasantly surprising and why he should never be allowed near the naming of pedals. Meanwhile Fender have announced a brand new fuzz pedal which has set the internet ablaze with interest and the g...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are joined by the one and only Cory Wong for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! We are joined by the legend that is Cory Wong and naturally we talk compression and specifically the Wampler x Cory Wong Compressor. First though, it's calculator nostalgia - because why not? Cory then gives us a little insight into his early days, his formative influences, a...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake has been collecting Brians and we discover what on earth this actually means this week in an all new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! He also has a new pedal from Origin and has fallen in love with it so he spills the beans.  Not literally, that would be messy. Meanwhile Brian has a new obsession that...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has been banned from using a certain AI program and Blake has eaten a mighty breakfast which the guys open up with. Meanwhile Brian has been to Nashville - and there is discussion about castles - and he also went to see Brent Mason and ended up one incredibly beautiful Strat better off! The world's le...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is excited about his new clothing purchases and Richard admits to certain middle age features. Welcome to the dad fashion episode.  Meanwhile Richard got to visit the studio of McFly and gives us a report on what he found. Mainly guitars. Lovely guitars - and awesome solos too... Brian's been thinking...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian fantasises about British Hulk Hogan as we slip into todays crevice of disorderly and disjointed discussion nuggets.  Firstly there is some talk about female vocalists and Brian reveals who his favorite female fronted band is.  There is a new CEO at Gibson so the guys talk about what this might mean for suc...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian makes a confession which disappoints Blake and delights Richard so the episode begins with some serious GAS with an additional helping of buffoonery.  This leads into a discussion about DIY guitar building and Blake channels his inner Bruce Dickinson. According to the internet Blake is a string billionaire...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast which this week has been sponsored by Henning Pauly's new songwriting course! The guys start off with a little look at how the Cory Wong compressor first came to be with a couple of fond memories of our much missed tone brother Mr. Alex Clay who was integral to the conception of our latest pedal. Blake has b...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake kicks off with a demonstration of his new super (annoying) powers (which nauseates Richard immensely) before the guys go straight in to some news from the music and Ai worlds. Someone has managed to make an Ai Kanye and it sounds particularly impressive so the guys debate what this means with their normal...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake comes in fast and cold with what he describes as a "mini rant" about a shopping experience he had whilst looking for a particular rare pedal and the guys discuss the joys of trying to get ones own money refunded. Meanwhile Richard has discovered that a famous rock band takes sustenance from a ver...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard almost accidentally leaked a new pedal on the video version of the show and somehow this leads into a discussion about Chat GPT and pizza. Only one of those topics is worthy of the attention and it isn't the one Brian chooses. We also learn of the nefarious activities of the Welsh Secret Service whi...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake has got some new toys and it causes much annoyance to Richard within 60 seconds and this in turn leads to irregular vitamin suspicions and a tale of Blake's Grandfather's Mexican shopping adventures.  Meanwhile Brian has established what day it is and Richard schools him in the ways of time trave...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has been burning the candle at both ends as they say as he has been working on number of new circuits. This leads the guys onto a discussion about a certain green simian themed pedal that has been literally meme'd to death. There has also been a lot of slightly dubious information circulating the inte...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard suffered some time travelling issues as he rolled into this show and feels a new affinity with his American chums as a result. Brian, on the other hand, goes political again and Blake indulges in some Anglophobic aquatic hate speech before announcing his undying love for a new piece of gear. Brian has to...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian advises that Blake should isolate himself in the shred shed as he appears to have developed several interesting strains of virus in his household, and is then amazed at the girth of baritone strings. This leads into some admiration of the current Squier range and Baritone scale length discussion. Brian the...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! It's Blake's turn to join the ranks of the unwell this week, and he's not annoyed at all, and Richard has been rendered 25% more stupid as a result of visiting a well known front page for the internet. Blake's also been working a new harmonizer pedal with Mr. Black and tells us all about it w...